Tehran

See also: Tehrân

English

Alternative forms

• Teheran (dated)
• Tehrân

Etymology

Diacriticless transliteration of Iranian Persian تِهران (tehrân), from Classical Persian تَهران (tahrān). See there for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛˈɹæn/, /ˌtɛˈɹɑːn/

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• Hyphenation: Teh‧ran

Proper noun

Tehran

2. The capital city of Iran, the seat of Tehran County's Central District and the capital of Tehran Province.
   • 2013 June 13, Sune Engel Rasmussen, “After Torture and Persecution, Iranian Activists Work From Inside the U.S.”, in The Atlantic‎^[1], archived from the original on 1 October 2014:

     Three days after the presidential elections, Tehran was in upheaval.

4. A county of Iran, around the city.
6. Tehran Province, one of 31 provinces in Iran.
8. (by ellipsis) The Tehran Conference (1943).
9. (metonymic) The government of Iran.

Derived terms

• Tehrangeles
• Tehrani
• Tehranian

Translations

capital of Iran

• Adyghe: Тегеран (Teɣeran)
• Afrikaans: Teheran
• Albanian: Teheran m
• Amharic: ቴህራን (tehran)
• Arabic: طَهْرَان f (ṭahrān)
• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܛܗܪܢ

• Armenian: Թեհրան (hy) (Tʻehran)
• Assamese: তেহৰাণ (tehoran)
• Asturian: Teḥrán, Tehrán (ast), Teherán (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Tehran (az)
• Basque: Teheran
• Belarusian: Тэгера́н m (Tehjerán)
• Bengali: তেহরান (bn) (tehoran), তেহ্রাণ (tehran)
• Brahui: Taerán
• Bulgarian: Техера́н m (Teherán)
• Burmese: တီဟီရန် (tihiran)
• Catalan: Teheran
• Chechen: Техӏран (Tehran)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 德黑蘭 / 德黑兰 (dak¹ hak¹ laan⁴)

  Mandarin: 德黑蘭 / 德黑兰 (zh) (Déhēilán)

• Czech: Teherán (cs) m
• Danish: Teheran n
• Dutch: Teheran (nl) n
• Esperanto: Teherano (eo), Tehrano
• Estonian: Teheran (et)
• Finnish: Teheran (fi)
• French: Téhéran (fr) m
• Galician: Teherán (gl)
• Georgian: თეირანი (ka) (teirani)
• German: Teheran (de) n
• Greek: Τεχεράνη (el) (Techeráni)
• Gujarati: તેહરાન (tehrān)
• Hebrew: טֶהֱרָאן f (teherán)
• Hindi: तेहरान m (tehrān)
• Hungarian: Teherán (hu)
• Icelandic: Teheran
• Italian: Teheran (it)
• Japanese: テヘラン (ja) (Teheran)
• Kabardian: Дыхьэрэн (Dəḥɛrɛn)
• Kannada: ತೆಹ್ರಾನ್ (tehrān)
• Kazakh: Тегеран (Tegeran)
• Khmer: តេហេរ៉ង់ (km) (teeheerɑng)
• Korean: 테헤란 (ko) (Teheran)
• Kumyk: Тегьран (Tehran)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: تاران (ckb) (taran)

  Northern Kurdish: Tehran (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: Тегеран (Tegeran)
• Lak: Тегьеран (Teheran)
• Lao: ເຕເຮຣານ (tē hē rān)
• Latvian: Teherāna f
• Lithuanian: Teheranas m
• Macedonian: Техеран m (Teheran)
• Malay: Teheran
• Malayalam: ടെഹ്റാൻ (ṭehṟāṉ)
• Maltese: Teħran m
• Maori: Teherane
• Marathi: तेहरान (tehrān)
• Mazanderani: تهرون (tehrun)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Тегеран (Tegeran)

• Nepali: तेहरान (teharān)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Teheran n

  Nynorsk: Teheran n

• Odia: ତେହେରାନ (teherāna)
• Ossetian: Тӕхран (Tæxran)
• Pannonian Rusyn: Тегеран m (Teheran)
• Pashto: تهران m (tehrān)
• Persian:

  Classical Persian: تَهْرَان (tahrān)

  Dari: تَهْرَان (tahrān)

  Iranian Persian: تِهْران (tehrân), تِهْرون (tehrun) (colloquial, Tehrani)

• Polish: Teheran (pl) m
• Portuguese: Teerã (pt) f (Brazil), Teerão (pt) m (Portugal)
• Punjabi: ਤਹਿਰਾਨ (tahirān), ਤਿਹ੍ਰਾਨ (tihrān)
• Romanian: Teheran (ro)
• Russian: Тегера́н (ru) m (Tegerán)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Те̏хера̄н m

  Roman: Tȅherān (sh) m

• Sinhalese: ටෙහ්රාන් (ṭehrān)
• Slovak: Teherán (sk) m
• Slovene: Teheran m
• Spanish: Teherán (es) m
• Swahili: Tehran
• Swedish: Teheran (sv) n
• Tagalog: Teherán
• Tajik: Теҳрон (tg) (Tehron)
• Tamil: தெஹரான் (ta) (teharāṉ), தெகுரான் (tekurāṉ)
• Tatar: Техран (Texran)
• Telugu: టెహరాన (ṭeharāna)
• Thai: เตหะราน (dtee-hà-raan)
• Tibetan: ཏེ་ཧི་རན (te hi ran)
• Turkish: Tahran (tr)
• Turkmen: Tähran
• Ukrainian: Тегера́н m (Teherán)
• Urdu: تَہْران m (tahrān)
• Uyghur: تېھران (tëhran)
• Uzbek: Tehron
• Vietnamese: Tê-hê-răng, Têhêran, Têhêrăng, Tề Lan
• Yiddish: טעהראַן n (tehran)

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

• anther, arthen, harten, nather, thenar

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Tehran

1. alternative form of Teheran

Derived terms

• Tehranner
• Tehrans

Azerbaijani

Proper noun

Tehran

1. Tehran (the capital city of Iran)
2. Tehran (a province of Iran)

Tatar

Proper noun

Tehran

1. Tehran (the capital city of Iran)

Declension

Declension of Tehran

nominative	Tehran
genitive	Tehrannıñ
dative	Tehranga
accusative	Tehrannı
locative	Tehranda
ablative	Tehrandan