Isfahan

See also: İsfahan

English

Alternative forms

• Esfahan

Etymology

From Persian اصفهان (Esfahân), ultimately from Old Persian *spādāna- (“connected with the army”) or *spādānām (“of the armies”), from 𐎿𐎱𐎠𐎭 (spāda-, “army”), from Proto-Iranian *cwáHdaH (“army”); see it for more.

Proper noun

Isfahan

1. Third largest city of Iran, and former capital of Iran (1598–1736).

Related terms

• Isfahani

Translations

third largest city of Iran

• Arabic: أَصْفَهَان f (ʔaṣfahān), إِصْفَهَان f (ʔiṣfahān)
• Armenian: Սպահան (Spahan)

  Old Armenian: Ասպահան (Aspahan)

• Azerbaijani: İsfahan
• Bengali: ইস্ফহান (iśphohan), ইস্পাহান (iśpahan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 伊斯法罕 (zh) (Yīsīfǎhǎn)

• Dutch: Isfahan
• French: Ispahan (fr)
• German: Isfahan
• Greek: Ισφαχάν (el) f (Isfachán)
• Hebrew: אספהאן f (esfahan)
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• Irish: Isfahan
• Italian: Esfahan
• Japanese: イスファハン (Isufahan)
• Persian: اصفهان (fa) (Esfahān), اسپهان (espahān), سپاهان (fa) (sepāhān)
• Portuguese: Isfahan f, Ispahan f, Esfahan f
• Russian: Исфаха́н (ru) m (Isfaxán)
• Spanish: Isfahán (es), Ispahán (es)
• Tajik: Исфаҳон (tg) (Isfahon)
• Turkish: İsfahan
• Uyghur: ئىسپاھان (ispahan)
• Uzbek: Isfahon

See also

• (provinces of Iran) Alborz, Ardabil, Bushehr, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, East Azerbaijan, Isfahan, Fars, Gilan, Golestan, Hamadan, Hormozgan, Ilam, Kerman, Kermanshah, Khuzestan, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Kurdistan, Lorestan, Markazi, Mazandaran, North Khorasan, Qazvin, Qom, Razavi Khorasan, Semnan, Sistan and Baluchestan, South Khorasan, Tehran, West Azerbaijan, Yazd, Zanjan ^{(Category: en:Provinces of Iran)}

Anagrams

• Hanafis, faanish

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Ispahan, Esfahan, Ispaã, Ispaão
• Ispahã, Ispahão, Ispaan, Isfahã, Isfaã, Isfaão (rare)

Proper noun

Isfahan f

1. Isfahan (a city in Iran)