Iran

See also Irán, Írán, İran, irán, and Îran

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Wikipedia Wikipedia

From Middle Persian 𐭠𐭩𐭥𐭠𐭭 (ērān), from Proto-Iranian *aryānām (“of the Aryans”), genitive plural of *arya- (as in Old Persian 𐎠𐎼𐎡𐎹 (ariya-), Avestan 𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀 (airiia-), Ossetic ир (Ir, “Ossetian”)). Compare Parthian 𐭀𐭓𐭉𐭀𐭍 (aryān, “Iran”).

𐭠𐭩𐭥𐭠𐭭 (ērān) came to refer to the lands in which Iranians lived during the late 3rd to early 4th centuries. Prior to that time it signified people/culture (i.e. the Iranian nation), rather than geography. The antonymic 𐭠𐭭𐭩𐭥𐭠𐭭 (anērān) (whence Aniran), originally meaning "non-Iranian", underwent a parallel development.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ɪˈɹɑːn/, /ɪˈɹæn/, X-SAMPA: /I"rA:n/, /I"r{n/
• (US) IPA: /ɪˈɹɑːn/, /ɪˈɹæn/, /aɪˈɹæn/, X-SAMPA: /I"rA:n/, /I"r{n/, /aI"r{n/

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Proper noun

Iran

1. A country in the Middle East known as Persia until 1935. Official name: Islamic Republic of Iran.

Related terms

• Iranian

Translations

country in the Middle East

• Afrikaans: Iran (af)
• Albanian: Irani (sq)
• Arabic: إيران (ar) ('iraan) m

  Egyptian Arabic: إيران (ʔiraan) f

• Armenian: Իրան (hy) (Iran), Պարսկաստան (hy) (Parskastan)
• Azeri: İran (az)
• Belarusian: Іран (be) (Irán) m
• Bengali: ইরান (bn) (iran)
• Breton: Iran
• Bulgarian: Иран (bg) (Irán) m
• Burmese: အီရန်နိုင်ငံ (my)
• Catalan: Iran (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 伊朗 (cmn) (Yīlǎng), 伊朗伊斯蘭共和國 (cmn) (Yīlǎng yīsīlán gònghéguó)

• Czech: Írán (cs)
• Danish: Iran (da)
• Dutch: Iran (nl) n
• Dzongkha: ཨི་རཱན་ (dz)
• Esperanto: Irano (eo)
• Estonian: Iraan (et)
• Faroese: Iran (fo) n
• Finnish: Iran (fi)
• French: Iran (fr) m
• Georgian: ირანი (ka) (irani)
• German: Iran (de) m
• Greek: Ιράν (el) (Irán) n
• Gujarati: ઈરાન (gu) (īrān)
• Hebrew: איראן (he) (Irán) f, פרס (he) (páras) f
• Hindi: ईरान (hi) (īrān) m
• Hungarian: Irán (hu)
• Indonesian: Iran (id)
• Interlingua: Iran (ia)
• Italian: Iran (it) m
• Japanese: イラン (ja) (Iran)
• Jèrriais: Iran m
• Kalenjin: Iran
• Kamba: Iran
• Kannada: ಇರಾನ್ (kn) (irān)
• Kazakh: Иран (kk) (Iran)
• Khmer: អ៊ីរ៉ង់ (km) (’iirʊəng)
• Kikuyu: Iran
• Korean: 이란 (ko) (Iran)
• Kurdish: Îran (ku)
• Kyrgyz: Иран (ky) (Iran)
• Lao: ອີລ່ານ (lo)
• Latgalian: Irans m
• Latin: Irania (la) f
• Latvian: Irāna (lv) f

• Lithuanian: Iranas (lt)
• Luhya: Iran
• Macedonian: Иран (mk) (Íran) m
• Malay: Iran (ms)
• Malayalam: ഇറാൻ (ml)
• Maltese: l-Iran (mt)
• Marathi: इराण (mr) (irāṇ)
• Mazanderani: ئیران, ایران
• Meru: Iran
• Middle Persian: 𐭠𐭩𐭥𐭠𐭭 (ērān)
• Mongolian: Иран (mn) (Irán)
• Navajo: Iiwą́ą́
• Nepali: इरान (ne) (irān)
• Norman: Perse f, Iraun m
• Norwegian: Iran (no)
• Old English: Persealand (ang)
• Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
• Parthian: 𐭀𐭓𐭉𐭀𐭍 (aryān)
• Pashto: ايران (ps)
• Persian: ایران (fa) (Irân)
• Polish: Iran (pl)
• Portuguese: Irã (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਇਰਾਨ (pa) (irān)
• Romanian: Iran (ro) n, (Persia f)
• Russian: Иран (ru) (Irán) m, Персия (ru) (Pérsija) f
• Sanskrit: ईरान (sa) (īrāna)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Иран (sh) m

  Roman: Iran (sh) m

• Sinhalese: ඉරානය (si) (irānya)
• Slovak: Irán (sk) m
• Slovene: Iran (sl) m
• Spanish: Irán (es) m
• Swahili: Uajemi (sw)
• Swedish: Iran (sv)
• Tagalog: Iran (tl)
• Tajik: Эрон (tg) (Eron)
• Tamil: ஈரான் (ta)
• Tatar: Иран (tt) (Iran)
• Telugu: ఇరాన్ (te) (irān)
• Thai: อิหร่าน (th) (ì-ràan)
• Turkish: İran (tr)
• Turkmen: Eýran (tk)
• Ukrainian: Іран (uk) (Irán) m
• Urdu: ایران (ur) (īrān) m
• Uzbek: Eron (uz)
• Vietnamese: Iran (vi)
• Volapük: Lirän (vo)
• Yiddish: איראן (yi) (Iran)

Persia — see Persia

See also

• Persia

Anagrams

• Arin, ARIN
• arni
• NIRA
• rain
• rani
• Rian
• RNAi

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Afrikaans

Proper noun

Iran

1. Iran

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Breton

Proper noun

Iran

1. Iran

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA: /iˈɾan/, X-SAMPA: /i"4an/
• Rhymes: -an

Proper noun

Iran m

1. Iran

Derived terms

• iranià

Usage notes

• Catalan uses the definite article l’ in front of Iran, but not in enumerations (such as "Canada, China and Iran are big countries.")

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Danish

Proper noun

Iran

1. Iran

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Dutch

Proper noun

Iran n

1. Iran

Related terms

• Iraans, Iraanse
• Iraniër

See also

• Perzisch

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Faroese

Etymology

From Persian ایران (Irân), from Middle Persian 𐭠𐭩𐭥𐭠𐭭 (ērān), from Proto-Iranian *aryānām (“of the Aryans”), genitive plural of *arya- (as in Old Persian 𐎠𐎼𐎡𐎹 (ariya-), Avestan 𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀 (airiia-), Ossetic ир (Ir, “Ossetian”)). Compare Parthian 𐭀𐭓𐭉𐭀𐭍 (aryān, “Iran”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈiːɹan/, X-SAMPA: /"i:r\an/

Proper noun

Iran

1. Iran

Declension

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	Iran
Accusative	Iran
Dative	Irani
Genitive	Irans

Related terms

• iranskur

See also

• Persia

Anagrams

• Arni
• Rani

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Finnish

Wikipedia ^fi

Proper noun

Iran

1. Iran

Declension

Declension of Iran (type paperi) singular plural nominative Iran – genitive Iranin – partitive Irania – accusative Iran Iranin – inessive Iranissa – elative Iranista – illative Iraniin – adessive Iranilla – ablative Iranilta – allative Iranille – essive Iranina – translative Iraniksi – instructive – – abessive Iranitta – comitative – –

Anagrams

• arin

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /iʁɑ̃/

Proper noun

Iran m

1. Iran

Related terms

• iranien, iranienne

See also

• persane
• Perse

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German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aːn

Proper noun

Iran m (genitive Irans)

1. Iran

Usage notes

The article (der) is often used with the name of the country, thus one says er ist im Iran (he is in Iran) and not er ist in Iran. However, one can say er ist in Irans Hauptstadt, which has the same meaning as er ist in der Hauptstadt des Iran[s] — he is in the capital of Iran. Similar examples: der: Irak, Sudan, Kongo; die: Türkei, Schweiz, Slowakei.

See also

• Perser
• Persien
• Persisch

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Indonesian

Proper noun

Iran

1. Iran

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Interlingua

Proper noun

Iran

1. Iran

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Proper noun

Iran m

1. Iran

Related terms

• iraniano
• iranico
• iranista

See also

• Persia

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Iran

1. Iran

Related terms

• iraner
• iransk

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈiran/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Iran m

1. Iran

Declension

    declension of Iran

	singular only
nominative	Iran
genitive	Iranu
dative	Iranowi
accusative	Iran
instrumental	Iranem
locative	Iranie
vocative	Iranie

Derived terms

• Irańczyk m, Iranka f
• adjective: irański

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Romanian

Proper noun

Iran n

1. Iran

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ǐraːn/
• Hyphenation: I‧ran

Proper noun

Ìrān m (Cyrillic spelling Ѝра̄н)

1. Iran

Declension

    declension of Iran

	singular
nominative	Ìrān
genitive	Irána
dative	Iranu
accusative	Iran
vocative	Irane
locative	Iranu
instrumental	Iranom

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Swedish

Wikipedia ^sv

Proper noun

Iran n

1. Iran

Derived terms

• iranier
• iransk