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From Persian ایران(irân), 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.

PronunciationEdit

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɪˈɹɑːn/, /ɪˈɹæn/[2]
  • (US) IPA(key): /ɪˈɹɑːn/, /ɪˈɹæn/, /aɪˈɹæn/[3]
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  • Rhymes: -ɑːn, -æn

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Iran

  1. A country in West Asia. Official name: Islamic Republic of Iran.
    • 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."
    • 2005, Massoume Price, ed., 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."
  2. (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, John Huston Finley (ed.), "Iran" in 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."

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ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ MacKenzie, David Niel (1998). "Ērān, Ērānšahr". Encyclopedia Iranica, volume 8. Costa Mesa: Mazda, page 534.
  2. ^ Iran”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  3. ^ Iran”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

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Iran

  1. Iran

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Iran m (definite Irani)

  1. Iran (a country in Western Asia; capital: Tehran)

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Iran ?

  1. Iran

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Iran m

  1. Iran

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Iran

  1. Iran (a country in Asia)

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Iran

  1. Iran

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EtymologyEdit

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.

PronunciationEdit

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

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Iran n

  1. Iran

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Iran

  1. Iran

DeclensionEdit

Singular
Indefinite
Nominative Iran
Accusative Iran
Dative Irani
Genitive Irans

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EtymologyEdit

From Persian ایران‎.

PronunciationEdit

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

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Iran

  1. Iran

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of Iran (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation)
nominative Iran
genitive Iranin
partitive Irania
illative Iraniin
singular plural
nominative Iran
accusative nom. Iran
gen. Iranin
genitive Iranin
partitive Irania
inessive Iranissa
elative Iranista
illative Iraniin
adessive Iranilla
ablative Iranilta
allative Iranille
essive Iranina
translative Iraniksi
instructive
abessive Iranitta
comitative
Possessive forms of Iran (type paperi)
possessor singular plural
1st person Iranini Iranimme
2nd person Iranisi Iraninne
3rd person Iraninsa

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Iran m

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

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

  1. Iran (a country in Western Asia)

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

  1. Iran (a country in Western Asia)

Usage notesEdit

  • 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".

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Further readingEdit

  • Iran” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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EtymologyEdit

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.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): [ˈiran]
  • Hyphenation: I‧ran

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Iran

  1. Iran

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Iran

  1. Iran

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PronunciationEdit

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

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Iran m

  1. Iran

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ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Iran in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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Iran

  1. Rōmaji transcription of イラン

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Iran

  1. Iran

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Iran

  1. Iran

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PolishEdit

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Iran m

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

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adjective
nouns

Further readingEdit

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

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Iran n

  1. Iran

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PronunciationEdit

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

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Ìrān m (Cyrillic spelling Ѝра̄н)

  1. Iran

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Iran n (genitive Irans)

  1. Iran

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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Spanish Irán (Iran).

PronunciationEdit

  • Hyphenation: I‧ran
  • IPA(key): /ʔiˈɾan/, [ʔɪˈɾan]

Proper nounEdit

Irán

  1. Iran (a country in Western Asia)

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Iran f

  1. Iran (a country in Asia)

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Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal h-prothesis
Iran unchanged unchanged Hiran
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.