Alan (plural Alans)
A male given name from Celtic languages.
Alan (plural Alans or Alani)
(historical) A member of a group of Sarmatian tribes, nomadic pastoralists of the 1st millennium AD who spoke an Eastern Iranian language derived from Scytho-Sarmatian and which in turn evolved into modern Ossetian.
• Anal, Lana, Nala, anal, anal., lana, nala
alan (plural alans)
Alternative form of alaunt
• Anal, Lana, Nala, anal, anal., lana, nala
Source: Wiktionary
A*lan", n. Etym: [OF. alan, alant; cf. Sp. alano.]
Definition: A wolfhound. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
21 May 2025
(adverb) at some indefinite or unstated time; “let’s get together sometime”; “everything has to end sometime”; “It was to be printed sometime later”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
