Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اورن (ören), from Old Anatolian Turkish اورن (ören), from Proto-Oghuz اُرَنْ (ʾuran /ören/, “bad of everything”), ultimately borrowed from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾwylʾn' /awērān/). Compare Azerbaijani örən, Persian ویران (virân). Doublet of viran.