Aaron

See also: Aarón and Aäron

English

Etymology

From Latin Aaron, from Ancient Greek Ἀαρών (Aarṓn), from Hebrew אַהֲרֹן‎ (ʾAhărōn), of unknown meaning, possibly meaning “bearer of martyrs”, or perhaps also, or instead, related to the Ancient Egyptian aha rw (“warrior lion”), though it has been suggested to also mean “elevated”, “exalted” or “high mountain”.

Pronunciation
note on the pronunciation

The Hebrew etymon of Aaron, אהרן‎, was pronounced /ahăron/; it was transliterated into Greek as Ἀαρών (Aarṓn) (/aaron/), and into Latin as Aaron. In Ecclesiastical Latin, the name was and is pronounced with two separate a sounds.[1]

The pronunciation of the aa as a single sound, /ˈɛəɹən/, /ˈɛɹən/, /ˈæɹən/, originated when the Bible was anglicised, hence modern guides to the pronunciation of Biblical names, including those of the Church of England, the BBC,[2] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,[3] the Oxford English Dictionary,[4] and Harper Collins[5] specify the modern English pronunciation as /ɛəɹən/, where the first syllable sounds like the word air.

The variant form Aron (see Wikipedia) derives from the same Hebrew root, but via Scandinavian and/or Celtic languages; it is pronounced /ærən/ (like the unrelated but homophonous Celtic names Aran and Arran), for which reason Aaron is sometimes pronounced that way, too.

Proper noun

Aaron (plural Aarons)

  1. The elder brother of Moses in the Book of the Exodus, and in the Quran.
  2. A male given name.
    • 1969 Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint, Random House, 2002, page 145:
      - - - the Junior Prom with boys whose names are right out of the grade-school reader, not Aaron and Arnold and Marvin, but Johnny and Billy and Jimmy and Tod. Not Portnoy or Pincus, but Smith and Jones and Brown!
  3. A surname​.

Usage notes
  • The given name was exclusively Jewish in the Middle Ages, taken up by Gentiles in the 17th century, and popular among both at the end of the 20th century.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

Aaron (plural Aarons)

  1. (archaic, thieves' cant) The leader of a group of thieves.[6]

Synonyms

References
  1. 1937, Michael de Angelis, The correct pronunciation of Latin according to Roman usage
  2. 2006, L. Olausson and C. Sangster, Oxford BBC Guide to Pronunciation (Oxford University Press), page 1.
  3. “Pronunciation Guide”, in (Please provide the title of the work)‎, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, accessed 2013-05-01
  4. Oxford English Dictionary (2013)
  5. 1994, Bible Pronunciation Guide (edited by William O. Walker III, published by Harper Collins, →ISBN)
  6. Farmer, John Stephen (1890) Slang and Its Analogues‎, volume 1, page 2

Catalan

Alternative forms

Proper noun

Aaron m

  1. A male given name, equivalent to English Aaron.

Estonian

Proper noun

Aaron

  1. Aaron (biblical figure)
  2. A male given name, equivalent to English Aaron.

Finnish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɑːron/, [ˈɑːro̞n]
  • Hyphenation: Aa‧ron

Proper noun

Aaron

  1. Aaron (biblical figure)
  2. A male given name, equivalent to English Aaron.

Declension
Inflection of Aaron (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation)
nominative Aaron Aaronit
genitive Aaronin Aaronien
Aaroneiden
Aaroneitten
partitive Aaronia Aaroneita
Aaroneja
illative Aaroniin Aaroneihin
singular plural
nominative Aaron Aaronit
accusative nom. Aaron Aaronit
gen. Aaronin
genitive Aaronin Aaronien
Aaroneiden
Aaroneitten
partitive Aaronia Aaroneita
Aaroneja
inessive Aaronissa Aaroneissa
elative Aaronista Aaroneista
illative Aaroniin Aaroneihin
adessive Aaronilla Aaroneilla
ablative Aaronilta Aaroneilta
allative Aaronille Aaroneille
essive Aaronina Aaroneina
translative Aaroniksi Aaroneiksi
instructive — Aaronein
abessive Aaronitta Aaroneitta
comitative — Aaroneineen

Proper noun

Aaron

  1. genitive singular of Aaro

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /a.a.ʁɔ̃/

Proper noun

Aaron

  1. Aaron (biblical figure)
  2. A male given name, equivalent to English Aaron

German

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈʔaːʀɔn/
  • Audio(file)

Proper noun

Aaron m (genitive Aarons, no plural)

  1. Aaron (biblical figure)
  2. A male given name, equivalent to English Aaron

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Hebrew אהרן‎ ('aharón).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Aarōn m (indeclinable)

  1. Aaron (biblical figure)

Descendants
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