Yerevan

English

Yerevan skyline with Mount Ararat in the background.

Alternative forms

• Erevan (obsolete)
• Erewan (obsolete)
• Erivan (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Armenian Երեւան (Erewan).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌjeɹəˈvæːn/
• IPA^(key): /ˌjeɹəˈvɑːn/
• IPA^(key): /jɛɾɛˈvɑn/

Proper noun

Yerevan

1. The capital and largest city of Armenia.
   • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 99:

     Before long Abbas Mirza suffered a succession of defeats, which culminated in the capture of Erivan, today capital of Armenia.

   • 2009 September 26, Geoff Garvey, The Guardian:

     Crammed to the gills with history, it nestles in the shadow of Mount Ararat and has a medieval centre but it's Yerevan's religious heritage that is its main claim to fame.

Derived terms

• Radio Yerevan
• Yerevanian

Translations

the capital and largest city of Armenia

• Afrikaans: Jerevan
• Albanian: Jerevan m, Jerevani m (definite)
• Amharic: ዬሬቫን (yerevan)
• Arabic: يِرِيفَان f (yirīfān)
• Aragonese: Erevan
• Armenian: Երեւան (Erewan)
• Asturian: Ereván
• Azerbaijani: İrəvan
• Belarusian: Ерэва́н m (Jereván)
• Bengali: ইয়েরেভান (iẏerebhan)
• Breton: Yerevan
• Bulgarian: Ерева́н m (Ereván)
• Catalan: Erevan
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 埃里溫 (zh) (Āilǐwēn), 埃里温 (zh) (Āilǐwēn) (PRC, HK), 葉里溫／叶里温 (Yèlǐwēn), 叶里温 (Yèlǐwēn) (Taiwan)

• Chuvash: Ереван (Erevan)
• Crimean Tatar: Erivan
• Czech: Jerevan (cs)
• Danish: Jerevan
• Dutch: Jerevan
• Esperanto: Erevano (eo)
• Estonian: Jerevan (et)
• Faroese: Jerevan m
• Finnish: Jerevan (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: Yèrèvan
• French: Erevan (fr) m
• Galician: Iereván (gl)
• Georgian: ერევანი (ka) (erevani)
• German: Eriwan (de) n
• Greek: Γιερεβάν (el) n (Giereván)
• Haitian Creole: Erevàn
• Hebrew: ירוואן \ יֶרֶוָן f (yerevan)
• Hindi: येरवान (yervān)
• Hungarian: Jereván (hu)
• Icelandic: Jerevan
• Indonesian: Yerevan
• Irish: Eireaván m
• Italian: Yerevan m
• Japanese: エレバン (Ereban)
• Kazakh: Ереван (Erevan)
• Korean: 예레반 (Yereban)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Êrîvan (ku), Rewan (ku)

  Central Kurdish: یەریڤان (yerîvan)

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• Kyrgyz: Ереван (ky) (Yerevan)
• Ladino: Djerevan
• Latin: Erevanum
• Latvian: Erevāna f
• Ligurian: Erevan
• Lithuanian: m
• Macedonian: Ереван m (Erevan)
• Marathi: येरेवान (yerevān)
• Mongolian: Ереван (Jerevan)
• Navajo: Yéwewan
• Norwegian: Jerevan (no)
• Occitan: Erevan
• Persian: ایروان (fa) (iravân) (dated), یروان (yerevân)
• Piedmontese: Erevan
• Polish: Erywań (pl)
• Portuguese: Erevan (pt) m
• Quechua: Yiriwan
• Romanian: Erevan (ro)
• Russian: Ерева́н (ru) m (Jereván)
• Sanskrit: येरेवान (yerevāna)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Јереван m, Ѐрева̄н m

  Roman: Jerevan m, Èrevān (sh) m

• Slovak: Jerevan m
• Slovene: Erevan m
• Spanish: Ereván (es) m
• Swahili: Yerevan
• Swedish: Jerevan (sv)
• Tajik: Ереван (tg) (Yerevan)
• Tatar: Ереван (Yerewan)
• Thai: เยเรวาน (yee-ree-waan)
• Turkish: Erivan (tr)
• Ukrainian: Єрева́н m (Jereván)
• Upper Sorbian: Jerewan
• Urdu: یریوان (yerevān)
• Uyghur: يېرېۋان (yërëwan)
• Venetian: Èrevan
• Volapük: Yerevan
• Welsh: Yerevan
• West Frisian: Jerevan
• Yakut: Ереван (YErevan)
• Yiddish: יערעוואן (yerevan)
• Zazaki: Yerêvan (Southern Zazaki)

Anagrams

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