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From the Old Irish root gabar or gabarán which means "taking/seizing".Gabrán mac Domangairt (Old Welsh: Gawran map Dinwarch) or 'Gabrán the Traitor' (Gwran Wradouc) was king of Dál Riata in the mid-6th century. He is the eponymous ancestor of the Cenél nGabráin. Gabrán was the son of Domangart Réti and the father of Áedán mac Gabráin.