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Re: MEANING OF NAME "AYAN" OR "AAYAN"
Not sure how accurate this info is but one person with this name says it has many meanings try this link
http://www.sarbadhikari.com/ayanEdit
cant get the link to work for me so heres what he says and I cant garantee that any of the meanings are correct though they may give you somewhere to start

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Thanks to someone with better eyesight than me the link now works :)So you can see this persons web site for yourselfThe path through which the sun travels in the daytime is called 'Ayan'In Tamil: 'Ayan' is the name of Brahma, the Creator. 'Ayan' also means Shepherd'Ayan' is also a form of African drumming. 'Ayan' in Turkish, means "obviously" or "clearly"'Ayan' [Urdu/Persian.] with the last 'n' not pronounced fully... but half i.e. nasal tone sound..)... means something that is open and clear /something like : "something vividly clear on the face of it" or prima-facie.In Somalia 'Ayan' means "the lucky one". However, in Somali, 'Ayan' is the female form of the name, and 'Ayanle' is the male form.AYAN: Somali female name meaning "bright."In Sanskrit this also means "Speed" in English or "Gati" in Hindi. Sirr & Rooh form “Rooh-e-Insani (Human soul) or Ayan. This part of the soul is inscribed with commands characterizing the life. It is also termed as Ayan. When a human being gets acquainted with it, he can witness the record & scheme of “all that exists”, written on loh-e-mahfooz.
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This message was edited 9/12/2005, 4:04 PM

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Ayan in criolo from Cape Verde means yes or a confirmation of acceptance!
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is name ka meaning
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Your link does not work because you used a , (comma) instead of a . (stop).Out of the meanings given, the Sanskrit origin ones are basically correct. Derived from the root i with cognates all over the Indoeuropean languages e.g. ειμι, iter, иду, signifying motion, one gets aYan, the act of going, or the path, and is used both literally and figuratively. A peculiar development also led to it meaning a house or place of refuge.But all that is about ayana, not aayana; i.e. the first vowel is as in cut or cot, not as in car. That can happen in Sanskrit if one uses the prefix A to the above word, in which case the meaning changes from going to coming, and Ayana usually means approaching, though it can mean income as well. Alternatively, since ayana has celestial significance, Ayana can mean belonging to the solistice. I do not think that either of these two aayan is used as a name.
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Forgot to mention that AYAna (or aayaan if you prefer) is a very famous character n mythology: AYAna ghoSa was the husband of rAdhA, the heartthrob and lover of kRSNa, the playful pastoral God, an incarnation of viSNu, the protector amongst the Hindu trinity.AYAna can mean arrival, and natural temperament, but I do not know if the name is anyway connected to the word.
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Oh shoot my eyes are terrible,Thank you for pointing it out :)I will change it
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Hi, we are Hindu and named our son Ayan. One thing we liked about it was that it is such a cross-cultural name. The meanings we researched are as follows:1. Hindu/Tamil: Brahma, the God of Creation
2. Sanskrit: Soaked in the Divine (as in Satyanarayan)
3. Biblical: Motion, To Arrive (related to Noah); Iian, which is pronounced like Ayan, is the Scottish variation of John
4. Hebrew: Nothingness, Peace
5. Persian: Notable
6. Islam/Arabic: God’s Gift
7. Several African Languages: Center Part of the Soul.
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what is difference between
Ayan and Aayan pls?
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Hello There,As per my research Ayan is an Arabic word which means "Time, Era". In pension it means "Long Night". Aayan means "Longed Eye".Arab people don't use this name may be because of its meaning, but non Arabs do it a lot because the way it sounds.I hope that may help someone.Thanks.
Raja
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Is vaild name for hindu baby boy ?
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The sanskrit meaning is incorrect. satyanArAYaNa comes from satya = truth (or, etymologically, that which exists from the root as, to be, with obvious cognates) + nArAYaNa (descendent of nara, man, with cognates in Greek and Latin). The word nArAYaNa was identified as the first man, the creator, etc. in the past, but now refers to ViSNu, the protector amongst the Hindu trinity.In any case, there is no word ayan or aayan in that. The phoneme does exist as a suffix there, but with the meaning `son of'. I haven't checked the other meanings, but you would be well-advised to check them out. There are two many sites which give false meanings, sometimes with so little regard for the truth that calling them lies is not overeaching.
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Aayan name meaning
आयन नाम का अर्थराशि चक्र की गति या मार्ग।
सूर्य की मकर रेखा से कर्क रेखा अथवा कर्क रेखा से मकर रेखा की ओर की गति या मार्ग, जिसे क्रमात् उत्तरायण या दक्षिणायन कहते हैं।
उत्तरायण और दक्षिणायन के आरंभ में होनेवाला एक प्रकार का यज्ञ।
ज्योतिष की वह प्रक्रिया जिससे आकाशस्थ पिंडों की गति और मार्ग का ज्ञान होता है।आयन शुद्ध रूप से संस्कृत का नाम है
संस्कृत सबसे प्राचीन भाषा है। उर्दू अरबी फारसी सब उसके बाद आई हैं
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