Tehran

English

Alternative forms

• Teheran

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian تهران (tahrân). Ahmad Kasravi believed the word "Tehran" is derived from an Indo-European language and originally meant "End of Mountain" ("teh" or "Tah" meaning End, and "rān" meaning "Mountain"). (Karvand Kasravi, page 273)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.ɹæn/, /ˈteəɹ.ɑːn/

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• Hyphenation: Teh‧ran

Proper noun

Tehran

1. The capital city of Iran.

Synonyms

• Zawra

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Tehranian
• Tehrangeles

Translations

capital of Iran

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

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܛܗܪܢ

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

  Mandarin: 德黑蘭／德黑兰 (zh) (Déhēilán), 德黑兰 (zh) (Déhēilán)

• Czech: Teherán (cs) m
• Danish: Teheran
• Dutch: Teheran (nl) n
• Esperanto: Teherano (eo), Tehrano
• Estonian: Teheran (et)
• Finnish: Teheran (fi)
• French: Téhéran (fr) m
• Georgian: თეირანი (ka) (teirani)
• German: Teheran (de) n
• Greek: Τεχεράνη (el) (Techeráni)
• Gujarati: તેહરાન (tehrān)
• Hebrew: טֶהֱרָאן f (teherán)
• Hindi: तेहरान f (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)
• Korean: 테헤란 (Teheran)
• Kumyk: Тегьран (Tehran)
• Kurdish:
• Kyrgyz: Тегеран (Tegeran)
• Lak: Тегьеран (Teheran)
• Latvian: Teherāna f
• Lithuanian: Teheranas m
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• Macedonian: Техеран m (Teheran)
• Malay: Teheran
• Malayalam: ടെഹ്റാൻ (ṭehṟāṉ)
• Maltese: Teħran m
• Marathi: तेहरान (tehrān)
• Mazanderani: تهرون (tehrun)
• Mongolian: Тегеран (Tegeran)
• Navajo: Tʼehewan
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Teheran

  Nynorsk: Teheran

• Oriya: ତେହେରାନ (teherāna)
• Ossetian: Тӕхран (Tæxran)
• Pashto: تهران (tehrān)
• Persian: تهران (fa) (tehrân), تهرون (tehrun) (colloquial)
• Polish: Teheran (pl) m
• Portuguese: Teerã (pt) f (Brazil), Teerão (pt) f (Portugal)
• Punjabi: ਤਿਹ੍ਰਾਨ (tihrān)
• Romanian: Teheran (ro)
• Russian: Тегера́н (ru) m (Tegerán)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Те̏хера̄н m

  Roman: Tȅherān (sh) m

• Sinhalese: ටෙහ්රාන් (ṭehrān)
• Slovak: Teherán m
• Slovene: Teheran m
• Spanish: Teherán (es) m
• Swahili: Tehran
• Swedish: Teheran (sv)
• Tagalog: Teherán
• Tajik: Теҳрон (tg) (Tehron)
• Tamil: தெஹரான் (ta) (teharāṉ) or 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: تہران f (tehrān)
• Uyghur: تېھران (tëhran)
• Uzbek: Tehron
• Vietnamese: Tehran, Têhêran, Têhêrăng
• Yiddish: טעהראן (tehran)

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

• anther, arthen, harten, nather, thenar

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Azerbaijani

Proper noun

Tehran

1. Tehran

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Tatar

Proper noun

Tehran

1. Tehran

Declension

    declension of Tehran

Nominative	Tehran
Genitive	Tehrannıñ
Dative	Tehranga
Accusative	Tehrannı
Locative	Tehranda
Ablative	Tehrandan