Iran

• Irân, Irān, Îrân, Īrān (all rare)

From Iranian Persian ایران (irân), from Classical Persian ایران (ērān), from Middle Persian 𐭠𐭩𐭥𐭠𐭭 (ʾērān, “of the Aryans”). See 𐭠𐭩𐭥𐭠𐭭 (ʾērān) for word formation, further etymology and cognates. The name of the political entity is a 3rd-century development that derives from the indigenous ethnolinguistic name of the Iranian peoples,^[1] i.e. the great variety of Iranian tribes that spoke an Iranian language.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪˈɹɑːn/, /ɪˈɹæn/, /iː-/^[2]
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪˈɹɑn/, /ɪˈɹæn/, (proscribed) /aɪˈɹæn/^[3]

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• Rhymes: -ɑːn, -æn

Iran

2. A country in West Asia in the Middle East. Official name: Islamic Republic of Iran. Capital: Tehran.
   • 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."

   • 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 25:

     Light was happiness; and the people of Iran, the land of light, were the favourites of heaven; while those of Turan, the gloomy region beyond the mountains to the north, were its enemies.

   • 2005, Massoume Price, editor, 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."

   • 2019 June 26, Frederik Pleitgen and Eliza Mackintosh, “US is ‘not in a position to obliterate Iran,’ Iranian foreign minister says”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The US President himself accused Iran of being behind the provocation, threatening airstrikes on Iran last week – but calling them off just minutes before they were to begin.

3. (literary, technical) regions inhabited by the Iranian peoples.
   • 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."

   • 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."

   • 1909, “Iran”, in John Huston Finley, editor, 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."

   • 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)."

   • 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."

• Iranian

• Persia (archaic exonym)

• Rina, rani, Nair, rain, ARNI, Rain, arni, NIRA, Rian, ARIN, airn, RNAi, Rani, Arin

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Iran

1. Iran (a country in West Asia in the Middle East; capital: Teheran)

• Iraniër
• Irannees
• Irans

Iran m (definite Irani)

1. Iran (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

• iranian, iraniane

• IPA^(key): /iɾan/ [i.ɾãn]
• Rhymes: -iɾan, -an
• Hyphenation: I‧ran

Iran inan

1. Iran (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

Iran ?

1. Iran (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [iˈɾan]

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• Rhymes: -an

Iran m

1. Iran (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

• Catalan uses the definite article l’ in front of Iran, but not in enumerations (such as "Canada, China and Iran are big countries.")

• iranià

Iran

1. Iran (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

Iran

1. Iran (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

• iraner
• iransk

Ultimately from Persian ایران (irân), from Middle Persian 𐭠𐭩𐭥𐭠𐭭 (ʾyʿʾn). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /iˈrɑn/, (somewhat dated) /iˈraːn/, (dated) /ˈiː.rɑn/

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• Hyphenation: Iran

Iran n

1. Iran (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

• Iraans, Iraanse
• Iraniër

• Perzisch (archaic exonym)

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːɹan/
• Homophone: iðran

Iran

1. Iran (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

• iranskur

• Arni
• Rani

From Persian ایران.

• IPA^(key): /ˈirɑn/, [ˈirɑ̝n]
• Rhymes: -irɑn
• Syllabification^(key): I‧ran
• Hyphenation^(key): I‧ran

Iran

1. Iran (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

• Arin, arin

• IPA^(key): /i.ʁɑ̃/

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• Rhymes: -ɑ̃

Iran m

1. Iran (a country in West Asia in the Middle East; official name: République islamique d'Iran)

• iranien, iranienne

• persane (archaic exonym)
• Perse (archaic exonym)

• IPA^(key): /iˈʁaːn/

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• Rhymes: -aːn

Iran n (proper noun, genitive Irans or (optionally with an article) Iran)

1. Iran (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

Iran m (proper noun, strong, genitive Irans or Iran)

1. Iran (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

• 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".

• Iraner
• iranisch

• Iranier

• Persien

• “Iran” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From Persian ایران (irân), from Middle Persian 𐭠𐭩𐭥𐭠𐭭 (ʾērān, “of the Aryans”). See 𐭠𐭩𐭥𐭠𐭭 (ʾērān) for word formation, further etymology and cognates. Doublet of aria, arya, Arya, and ayah.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈiran/ [ˈi.ran]
• Rhymes: -iran
• Syllabification: I‧ran

Iran

1. Iran (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

• “Iran” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Iran

1. Iran (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.ran/, (traditional) /iˈran/^[1]
• Rhymes: -iran, (traditional) -an
• Hyphenation: Ì‧ran, (traditional) I‧ràn

Iran m

1. Iran (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

• iraniano
• iranico
• iranista

• Persia (archaic exonym)

• Rina, nari

Iran

1. Rōmaji transcription of イラン

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈraːn/

L-Iran m

1. Iran (a country in West Asia in the Middle East; official name: Repubblika Iżlamika tal-Iran)

Iran

1. Iran (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

• iraner
• iransk

Iran

1. Iran (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

• iranar
• iransk

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.ran/

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• Rhymes: -iran
• Syllabification: I‧ran

Iran m

1. Iran (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

• Iran in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Iran in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Iran n

1. Iran (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

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

Ìrān m inan (Cyrillic spelling Ѝра̄н)

1. Iran (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

• IPA^(key): /irân/

Irân m inan

1. Iran (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nominative	Irân
genitive	Irâna
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nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Irân
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Irâna
dative (dajȃlnik)	Irânu
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Irân
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Irânu
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Irânom

• Iránec / Iránka
• iránski

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Iran n (genitive Irans)

1. Iran (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

• iranier
• iransk
• iranska

• Iran in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• Svensk MeSH

• inar, rian

Borrowed from Spanish Irán (“Iran”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔiˈɾan/ [ʔɪˈɾan̪]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: I‧ran

Irán (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜇᜈ᜔)

1. Iran (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈran/
• Rhymes: -an

Iran f

1. Iran (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

• Gweriniaeth Islamaidd Iran (“Islamic Republic of Iran”)