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) and Sanskrit आर्य (ārya).

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 انیران (Aniran)), originally meaning "non-Iranian", underwent a parallel development.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪˈɹɑːn/, /ɪˈɹæn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪˈɹɑːn/, /ɪˈɹæn/, /aɪˈɹæn/

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Proper noun

Iran

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

Synonyms

• Persia

Related terms

• Iranian
• Persian

Translations

country in the Middle East

• Afrikaans: Iran
• Albanian: Irani
• Arabic: إيران m (ʾīrān)

  Egyptian Arabic: إيران f (ʾīrān)

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

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

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

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

  Cyrillic: Иран m

  Roman: Iran m

• Sinhalese: ඉරානය (irānaya)
• Slovak: Irán m
• Slovene: Iran (sl) m
• Spanish: Irán (es) m
• Swahili: Uajemi
• Swedish: Iran (sv)
• Tagalog: Iran
• Tajik: Эрон (Eron)
• Tamil: ஈரான் (īrāṉ)
• Tatar: Иран (Iran)
• Telugu: ఇరాన్ (te) (irān)
• Thai: อิหร่าน (th) (ì-ràan)
• Turkish: İran (tr)
• Turkmen: Eýran
• Ukrainian: Іран (uk) m (Irán)
• Urdu: ایران m (īrān)
• Uzbek: Eron (uz)
• Vietnamese: Iran
• Volapük: Lirän (vo)
• Yiddish: איראן (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^(key): /iˈɾan/
• 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

Pronunciation

• Audio

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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^(key): /ˈiːɹan/

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 (Kotus type 6/paperi)

		singular	plural
nominative		Iran	—
accusative	zero?	Iran	—
	normal	Iranin
genitive		Iranin	—
partitive		Irania	—
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^(key): /iʁɑ̃/

Proper noun

Iran m

1. Iran

Related terms

• iranien, iranienne

See also

• persane
• Perse

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iˈʁaːn/
• Rhymes: -aːn

Proper noun

Iran m (genitive Irans or Iran)

1. Iran

Usage notes

• The word is sometimes used without a definite article as in English: Iran, in Iran. In this case, the genitive is always Irans, for example Irans Hauptstadt – "Iran's capital".
• More commonly, however, the definite article is used with the name: der Iran, im Iran. In this case, the genitive usually is des Iran, although des Irans is also correct: die Hauptstadt des Iran(s) – "the capital of Iran".

Derived terms

• Iraner
• iranisch

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^(key): /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

Wikipedia ^sh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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