Ruslan
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Given Name RUSLAN

GENDER: Masculine
USAGE: Russian, Tatar, Bashkir, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Ossetian, Chechen, Ingush, Avar, Circassian
OTHER SCRIPTS: Руслан (Russian, Tatar, Bashkir, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Ossetian, Chechen, Ingush, Avar), Руслъан (Western Circassian, Eastern Circassian)
PRONOUNCED: ruws-LAN (Russian)  [details]

Meaning & History

Form of YERUSLAN used by Aleksandr Pushkin in his poem 'Ruslan and Ludmila' (1820), which was loosely based on Russian and Tatar folktales of Yeruslan Lazarevich.

Categories

lions, literature

Related Names

FEMININE FORM: Ruslana (Ukrainian)
Entry updated July 11, 2018