Douglas

From a place name, Goidelic dubh (“black”) + glais (“stream”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʌɡləs/

Douglas (countable and uncountable, plural Douglases)

1. A habitational surname of Scottish origin.
2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
3. A place name or the name of a geographical feature, often given after a person, notably held by:
   1. Douglas, the capital of the Isle of Man.
   2. Douglas, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, the origin of clan Douglas and the Lords of Douglas.

• c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals):

  : Act IV, Scene V:

  The noble Scot, Lord Douglas, when he saw

  The fortune of the day quite turn'd from him

  The noble Percy slain, and all his men

  Upon the foot of fear, fled with the rest.

• 1756 John Home, Douglas: A Tragedy, Prologue

  Douglas, a name through all the world renown'd,

  A name that rouses like the trumpet's sound!

• 1960 Muriel Spark, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, New Directions Publishing, 1999, page 68-69

  'Just call me Dougal,' said Dougal.

  'Douglas,' she said, pronouncing it 'Dooglass'.

  'No, Dougal - Douglas is my surname.'

  'Oh, Dougal Douglas. Dougal's the first name.'

• Douglas County

• (given name): Doug, Dougie, Douglass

Douglas

1. Douglas (in the Isle of Man)

Borrowed from English Douglas.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈdow.ɡlɐs/

Douglas m

1. A male given name, equivalent to English Douglas

Douglas f

1. Douglas (a city, the capital of the Isle of Man, United Kingdom)