"Dylan" meaning in All languages combined

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Proper name [English]

IPA: /ˈdɪlən/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Dylan.wav [Southern-England]
Rhymes: -ɪlən Etymology: From Welsh mythology; possibly from Celtic for "son of the sea" or "born from the ocean." Unrelated to the name Dillon, although the homophony may result in the two being considered variant spellings of the same name. Etymology templates: {{der|en|cy|-}} Welsh, {{der|en|cel|-}} Celtic, {{m|en|Dillon}} Dillon Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Dylan
  1. A male given name from Welsh. Categories (topical): English given names, English male given names, English unisex given names
    Sense id: en-Dylan-en-name-u-dMnrrv Disambiguation of English unisex given names: 46 49 5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 45 45 11 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 42 44 14
  2. A female given name. Categories (topical): English female given names, English given names, English unisex given names
    Sense id: en-Dylan-en-name-b1svBRzJ Disambiguation of English unisex given names: 46 49 5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 45 45 11 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 42 44 14
  3. (rare) A surname. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-Dylan-en-name-EMUC1F3L Categories (other): English surnames, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 45 45 11 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 42 44 14
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Dylanesque [surname], Dylanologist [surname], Dylanology [surname] Related terms: Dylann

Proper name [French]

IPA: /di.lan/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Arthur Crbz-Dylan.wav
Head templates: {{fr-proper noun|m}} Dylan m
  1. a male given name from Welsh, popular in the 1990s Tags: masculine Categories (topical): French given names, French male given names
    Sense id: en-Dylan-fr-name-6mehJTUI Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header

Proper name [Welsh]

IPA: /ˈdəlan/ Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], Dylan [mutation, mutation-radical], Ddylan [mutation, mutation-soft], Nylan [mutation, mutation-nasal]
Etymology: dy- (“to, of”) + llanw (“tide”) Etymology templates: {{com|cy|dy-|llanw|t1=to, of|t2=tide}} dy- (“to, of”) + llanw (“tide”) Head templates: {{cy-proper noun|m}} Dylan m Inflection templates: {{cy-mut}}
  1. a male given name Tags: masculine Categories (topical): Welsh given names, Welsh male given names
    Sense id: en-Dylan-cy-name-h8YdwBAs Categories (other): Welsh entries with incorrect language header

Alternative forms

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  "section": "Welsh",
  "subsection": "proper noun",
  "title": "Dylan",
  "trace": ""
}

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  "called_from": "inflection/2512",
  "msg": "rejected heuristic header: table cell identified as header based on style, BUT Welsh is not in LANGUAGES_WITH_CELLS_AS_HEADERS; cleaned text: unchanged, style: padding-bottom:4px;////NodeKind.TABLE_CELL",
  "path": [
    "Dylan"
  ],
  "section": "Welsh",
  "subsection": "proper noun",
  "title": "Dylan",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.