Last name origins & meanings:
- Scottish: habitational name for someone from the French city of
Bordeaux, from a reduced form of the Old French adjective
bordelais.
- Iranian: from the Persian personal name or
epithet barlas ‘brave man of noble stock’, from Mongolian
barlas ‘brave’, the name of the Mongolian tribe of which
Tamerlane’s father was a member.
- Greek: perhaps a
nickname from Aroumin (a language related to Romanian, spoken in
Greece) bărliv ‘tormented’, ‘long-suffering’, from Bulgarian
bŭlivŭ ‘ill’.
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