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Don't confuse the [[homophone]]s '''Aran''', '''Arran''' and, less common, '''Arun'''. All are pronounced with the stress on the first syllable, whose vowel is that of 'at'; the second vowel is the indeterminate [[schwa]]: {{IPA|ˈær ən}}. All three are primarily place-names.
*'''Aran''' is, in the British Isles, primarily the name of the '''Aran Islands''', three islands at the mouth of Galway Bay, half-way up the west coast of Ireland. Their traditional way of life was the subject of a famous - and controversial - documentary film of 1934 called ''Man of Aran'', filmed by the American Robert J. Flaherty (1884-1951).The British '''Aran''' is a rendering of the [[Erse]] ''Árainn'', 'of the ridge'.
**The spelling '''Aran''' is also used for 
***a river in France
***various mountains in Wales
***an administrative district of Catalonia
*'''Arran''', in the UK, is the name of an island at the mouth of the [[Firth]] of Clyde. on the west of Scotland (The name may represent the [[Celtic (language)|British]] ''aran'', 'high place', probably referring to its central mountain, Goat Fell (873.5 metres (2,866 ft) high).
**Outside the UK, '''Arran''' was used as a name for Caucasian [[Albania]], and was the name of the first governor, although both Arabic and Persian have names for the territory that can be [[transliterated]] as '''Arran'''.
*The '''Arun''' is a river in Sussex. Its origin is a [[back-formation]] from '''[[Arundel]]'''.

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