Isfahan

See also: İsfahan

English

Alternative forms

• Esfahan, Ispahan

Etymology

Ultimately derived from Classical Persian اِصْفَهَان (isfahān), from Old Persian *spādānah (“army, adj.”) or *spādānām (“of the armies”), from 𐎿𐎱𐎠𐎭 (spādaʰ, “army”), from Proto-Iranian *cwáHdah (“army”), q.v.

Proper noun

Isfahan

2. A city in Iran, the seat of Isfahan County's Central District and the capital of Isfahan Province, the third largest city of Iran; the former capital of Iran, from 1598–1736.
4. A county of Iran, around the city.
6. A province of Iran.

Derived terms

• Isfahani

Translations

third largest city of Iran

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

  Old Armenian: Ասպահան (Aspahan)

• Azerbaijani: İsfahan
• Bashkir: Исфаһан (İsfahan)
• Belarusian: Ісфаха́н m (Isfaxán)
• Bengali: ইস্ফাহান (iśphahan), ইসফাহান (iśphahan), ইস্পাহান (iśpahan)
• Bulgarian: Исфаха́н m (Isfahán)
• Chechen: Исфахан (İsfaxan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 伊斯法罕 (zh) (Yīsīfǎhǎn)

• Czech: Isfahán
• Danish: Isfahan n
• Dutch: Isfahan n
• Finnish: Isfahan
• French: Ispahan (fr) m
• Georgian: ისპაანი (isṗaani)
• German: Isfahan (de) n
• Greek: Ισφαχάν (el) f (Isfachán)
• Hebrew: אֶסְפָהָאן (he) f (esfahan)
• Hindi: इस्फ़हान m (isfahān)
• Hungarian: Iszfahán (hu)
• Indonesian: Isfahan
• Irish: Isfahan
• Italian: Esfahan
• Japanese: イスファハン (Isufahan)
• Kazakh: Исфаһан (İsfahan)
• Korean: 이스파한 (Iseupahan)
• Kyrgyz: Исфахан (İsfahan)
• Latin: Ispahānum n
• Latvian: Isfahāna
• Lithuanian: Isfahanas
• Malay: Isfahan
• Marathi: इस्फहान n (isphahān)
• Mazanderani: اصفهون
• Ossetian: Исфахан (Isfaxan)
• Ottoman Turkish: اصفهان (İsfahān)
• Pashto: اصفهان m (esfahān)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: اِصْفَهان (esfahân), اِسْپَهان (espahân), سِپاهان (sepâhân)

• Polish: Isfahan (pl) m
• Portuguese: Isfahan f, Ispahan f, Esfahan f
• Russian: Исфаха́н (ru) m (Isfaxán)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Исфахан m

  Roman: Isfahan (sh) m

• Sindhi: اصفھان
• Spanish: Isfahán (es), Ispahán (es)
• Tajik: Исфаҳон (tg) (Isfahon)
• Tatar: Исфәһан (İsfähan)
• Thai: เอสแฟฮอน
• Turkish: İsfahan
• Turkmen: Yspyhan
• Ukrainian: Ісфаха́н m (Isfaxán)
• Urdu: اِصْفَہَان m (isfahān)
• Uyghur: ئىسپاھان (ispahan)
• Uzbek: Isfahon

See also

provinces of Iranedit

• Alborz
• Ardabil
• Bushehr
• Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari
• East Azerbaijan
• Fars
• Gilan
• Golestan
• Hamadan
• Hormozgan
• Ilam
• Isfahan
• 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

Anagrams

• Hanafis, faanish

Portuguese

Alternative forms

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

Proper noun

Isfahan f

1. Isfahan (a city in Iran, the seat of Isfahan County's Central District and the capital of Isfahan Province, the third largest city of Iran; the former capital of Iran, from 1598–1736)
2. Isfahan (a province of Iran)