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Rouran

noun

Rouran is a noun meaning “A member of the Rouran khaganate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-O-U-R-A-N, and it appears about once in every 71 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Rouran is Rourans.

What does Rouran mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A member of the Rouran khaganate.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of Rouran

  • Rourans plural
  • Ruanruan
  • Jou-jan
  • Jujan

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is Rouran?

Rouran appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does Rouran come from?

Borrowed from Mandarin 柔然 (Róurán), from Rouran.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).