Aslan

Origin

From Turkish aslan.

From Old Turkic arslan (“lion”), from Proto-Turkic. It is assumed that arslan is made of two different word stems:

• "ars", of uncertain origin.
• "-lan", an Old Turkic suffix designating wild and predatory animals (aslan, sırtlan, kaplan, yılan).

Proper noun

1. The Lion from the Narnia Chronicles written by C. S. Lewis; an allegorical Christ figure.

Anagrams

• alans, Alans
• nasal