Pronunciation | Arabic: [ʕadnaːn] |
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Gender | Male |
Language(s) | Arabic, Bosnian, Turkish, and Persian |
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Meaning | "A person living in two paradises" and "A person living in two times" (Zaman), "settler, pioneer" |
Adnan (Arabic: عدنان, ʿAdnān) is an Arabic masculine name common in the Muslim world.[1] Its eponymous bearer was Adnan, an ancient ancestor of various Arabian tribes. The etymological meaning of the name is settler, from a Semitic root `dn; "to stay, abide".