Iwan

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search
See also: iwan

Polish

[edit]
Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Pronunciation

[edit]
 
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ivan
  • Syllabification: I‧wan
  • Homophone: iwan

Etymology 1

[edit]

Borrowed from Russian Ива́н (Iván).

Proper noun

[edit]

Iwan m pers (female equivalent Iwana)

  1. a male given name from Russian [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Biblical Hebrew], equivalent to English Ivan
  2. a male surname from Russian
Declension
[edit]

Proper noun

[edit]

Iwan f (indeclinable)

  1. a female surname from Russian

Etymology 2

[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Proper noun

[edit]

Iwan f

  1. genitive plural of Iwana

Further reading

[edit]
  • Iwan in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Iwan”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022
  • Antoni Krasnowolski (1879) “Iwan”, in Album uczącéj się młodzieży polskiéj poświęcone Józefowi Ignacemu Kraszewskiemu z powodu jubileuszu jego pięćdziesięcioletniéj działalności literackiéj (in Polish), Lviv: Czytelni Akademickiéj Lwowskiéj; "Gaz. Narod." J. Dobrzańskiego i K. Gromana, Słowniczek prowincjalizmów zebranych w ziemi chełmińskiej i świeckiej, page 303

Welsh

[edit]

Alternative forms

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From Latin Iōannēs, from Ancient Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Biblical Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (Yôḥānān, literally God is gracious). Doublet of Ifan and Siôn.

Pronunciation

[edit]

Proper noun

[edit]

Iwan m

  1. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English John

See also

[edit]