Iran

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See also: irán, Irán, Íran, Îran, Īran, İran, irań., and Írán

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From Persian ایران ‎(irān), from Middle Persian 𐭠𐭩𐭥𐭠𐭭 ‎(ērān, “(land) of the Iranians”). See ērān for word formation, further etymology and cognates.

The name of the political entity is a 3rd-century development that derives from the indigenous ethno-linguistic name of the Iranian peoples,[1] i.e. the great variety of Iranian tribes that spoke an Iranian language.

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Iran

  1. (common) a country in the Middle East. Its capital is Tehran. Present-day official name: Islamic Republic of Iran.
    • 2005, Massoume Price, ed., Iran's Diverse Peoples, ABC-Clio, page xiii:
      Iran is a vast and ancient country in a strategic location in the Middle East. It borders Russia, Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan, the Gulf of Oman, and the Persian Gulf
    • ca. 1675, Jean Chardin (Sir John Chardin), Travels in Persia, 1673-1677, fasc. reprint 1988, Dover, page 126:
      The Persians, in naming their country, make use of one word, which they indifferently pronounce Iroun, and Iran.
  2. (literary, technical) regions inhabited by Iranian peoples, i.e. (A) Western Iranian languages/peoples – Parthian(s) proper, Persiann(s) proper, Mede(s), Kurd(s), etc. – of the present-day country, and (B) the Eastern Iranian languages/peoples – Bactrian(s), Chorasmian(s), Khotanese, Sogdian(s), Baluchi(s), Pashtun(s) etc. – of Central Asia, or Ossetian(s) etc. of the Caucasus.
    • 1990, Hubert Darke, "Cambridge History of Iran" in Encyclopedia Iranica, volume 4, page 724:
      "[The] Cambridge History of Iran [is] a survey of the history and historical geography of the land which is present-day Iran, as well as other territories inhabited by peoples of Iranian descent
    • 1985, J. M. Cooke, "The Rise of the Achaemenids" in Cambridge Historiy of Iran, volume 2, page 290:
      [W]e may surmise that there was a strong sense of Iranian unity lending solidarity to the eastern half of the empire. It is only in the generations after Alexander, in Eudemus and in Eratosthenes (ap. Strabo), that we find mention of the concept of a greater nation of Iran (Arianē) stretching from the Zagros to the Indus; but the sense of unity must have been there, for Herodotus tells us that the Medes were formerly called Arioi, and Darius I (followed by Xerxes) in his inscriptions proclaims himself an Iranian (Ariya) by race - he speaks of himself in ascending order as an Achaemenid, a Persian and an Iranian (Naqsh-i Rustam).
    • 1898, A. V. W. Jackson, Zoroaster: The Prophet of Ancient Iran, Macmillan, page 10:
      Zoroaster of Iran. — Zoroaster, it is believed, sprang up in the seventh century before the Christian era, somewhere in the land between the Indus and the Tigris.
    • 1882, James Darmesteter, The Zend-Avesta, volume 1 (SBE, volume 31), Oxford UP, page 7, xxviii:
      Kavi means a king, but it is particularly used of the kings belonging to the second and most celebrated of the two mythical dynasties of Iran.
      One certain fact is the occurrence of geographical names [Bactria, Sogdiana, etc] in Vendidad I, which are obviously intended to describe the earliest homes of the Iranian races whose lore was the Avesta.
    • 1909, John Huston Finley (ed.), "Iran" in Nelson's Perpetual Loose-leaf Encyclopaedia, volume 6, page 479:
      Iran. in early times, the name applied to the great Asiatic plateau which comprised the entire region from the Caucasus, the Caspian Sea, and Russian Turkestan on the north to the Tigris, the Persian Gulf, and the Arabian Sea on the west and south, and extending to the Indus on the east, likewise comprising the modern Afghanistan and the territory to the north of it as far as the Jaxartes River.
Note: The distinction is between state and nation; the latter reflects indigenous usage of the term.

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  • Persia (archaic exogenous name for the country)

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Translations[edit]

Persia — see Persia

References[edit]

  1. ^ MacKenzie, David Niel (1998). "Ērān, Ērānšahr". Encyclopedia Iranica, volume 8. Costa Mesa: Mazda, page 534.
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Iran

  1. Iran

Breton[edit]

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Iran ?

  1. Iran

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Iran m

  1. Iran

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  1. Iran

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Iran n

  1. Iran

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Iran

  1. Iran

Declension[edit]

Singular
Indefinite
Nominative Iran
Accusative Iran
Dative Irani
Genitive Irans

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Finnish[edit]

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Iran

  1. Iran

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Inflection of Iran (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation)
nominative Iran —
genitive Iranin —
partitive Irania —
illative Iraniin —
singular plural
nominative Iran —
accusative nom. Iran —
gen. 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 — —

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Iran m

  1. Iran

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Iran n ‎(genitive Irans)

  1. Iran

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Iran m ‎(genitive Irans or Iran)

  1. Iran

Usage notes[edit]

  • 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".

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Iran

  1. Iran

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Iran

  1. Iran

Italian[edit]

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Iran m

  1. Iran

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Iran

  1. rōmaji reading of イラン

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Iran

  1. Iran

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Iran m

  1. Iran

Declension[edit]

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

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Iran n

  1. Iran

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

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  • IPA(key): /ǐraːn/
  • Hyphenation: I‧ran

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Ìrān m ‎(Cyrillic spelling Ѝра̄н)

  1. Iran

Declension[edit]

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

Swedish[edit]

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Iran n

  1. Iran

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