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Oran
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A major port city and province in Algeria; also a masculine given name of Irish origin.
"Oran is Algeria's second-largest city after Algiers."
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Etymology
As a city name, ultimately from Arabic وَهْرَان (wahrān), from a Berber word for "lion."