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Baran (; literally: Rain) is a 2001 Iranian film directed by Majid Majidi, based on an original script by Majid Majidi. The movie is set during recent times in which there are a large number of Afghan refugees living on the outskirts of Tehran. Almost a silent movie, Baran won a number of awards both nationally and internationally for the director and writer Majid Majidi.
Baran is a rare surname from various origins. It is supposed to be another variant of Baron. In Gaelic the meaning of the name Baran is: Noble warrior. In Russian the meaning of the name Baran is: The ram; forceful; virile. In Teutonic the meaning of the name Baran is: Noble fighter. In Persian, Kurdish and Turkish baran means rain is a loan word from Persian. In older Bhojpuri dialect it is misspelling of Varan, or Sanskrit Varna. In India it is not used as a surname but is/was sometimes found among descendants of indentured labourers from Bihar or Eastern UP as a misspelt form of Varna, especially in compound given names like Rambaran meaning "having the qualities of the clan of Lord Rama". It is rarely found in Mexico as a variant of Vara, from Portuguese and Spanish: from vara ‘rod’, ‘stick’, ‘yardstick’ (Late Latin vara ‘forked stick’), applied as a nickname or metonymic occupational name in any of various possible senses; it may have been given to a keeper of animals, who used a stick to urge his charges on, or to an official who was responsible for checking weights and measures or who carried a rod as a symbol of his office.
Most people with this surname come from Eastern Europe. Notable people with the surname include:
- Bernard Baran (born 1965), child care worker convicted and later exonerated of sex abuse
- Elliot Baran (born 1998), a British economist born in Yorkshire
- Martin Baran (born 1988), Slovak football player
- Paul Baran (1926–2011), American inventor of packet switching
- Paul A. Baran (1910–1964), American economist
- Phil S. Baran, American chemist
- Ram Baran Yadav (born 1948), first President of Nepal
- Stanisław Baran (1920–1993), Polish soccer player
- Witold Baran (born 1939), Polish middle distance runner
- Zeyno Baran (born 1972), Turkish political researcher
Baran is an Iranian Kurdish pop singer. She is the youngest of four siblings and was born on January 4, 1988, in Mahabad, Iran. She attracted attention for her single track "Baran Ziadi".