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Karan

proper nounproper nouncommon in dialogue

A female given name of North American usage, variant of Karen.

proper noun

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    A female given name of North American usage, variant of Karen.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A male given name from Sanskrit, of Indian usage.

    Sharmishta Roy, who did the sets of K3G, has this to say about Johar: “Karan cannot handle dirt, he cannot deal with grime, he went to Chandni Chowk and almost fainted.”

Etymology

Derived from Sanskrit कर्ण (karṇa, “Karna”). Doublet of Karna.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).