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Sîpan

Mont Sîpan

Genre: Garçon
Origine: Géographie
Guide de prononciation: see-PAN

L'histoire du prénom

Sîpan — the 4 058-metre mountain on the northern shore of Lake Van, around which villages settled and stories made camp. As a name it turns general geography into the specific — not a mountain, but this mountain.

Étymologie

Racine: Sîpan · Toponym

Sîpan is the Kurdish name of Mount Sîpan (modern Turkish Süphan Dağı), a 4 058-metre stratovolcano on the northern shore of Lake Van. It is the second-highest mountain in eastern Anatolia and a landmark in Kurdish folk geography. The name’s deeper origin is debated — pre-Iranian Anatolian substrate is one hypothesis.

Famille du prénom

Çîya · cognate — the general word for mountain

géographie
montagnes
nature

Mis à jour: 2026-05-02