Servan

See also: serván, seřván, and Sèrvan

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Likely from Franco-Provençal Sèrvan.

Alternative forms

Noun

Servan m (plural Servans)

  1. (Alpine folklore) A kind of imp
    Hypernym: lutin

Etymology 2

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Proper noun

Servan m or f by sense

  1. a surname

Further reading

Middle French

Etymology

From Classical Persian شِرْوَان (širwān).

Proper noun

Servan m

  1. Shirvan (a historical region of the eastern Caucasus, historically Persian and now in the Republic of Azerbaijan)
    • 1608, L’histoire du monde, volume 1, Paris, page 164:
      LE Roy Seleucus fonda la cité de Sumach, principale ville de Seruan qui eſt par delà Silephica la grande, enuiron ſept cents cinquante milles, & à vingt milles pres des deſtroits de Derbant.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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