Isfahan

See also: İsfahan

English

Alternative forms

• Esfahan, Ispahan

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish اصفهان (İsfahān) and Classical Persian اِصْفَهَان (isfahān), ultimately from Old Persian *spādānaʰ (“army, adj.”) or *spādānām (“of the armies”), from 𐎿𐎱𐎠𐎭 (spādaʰ, “army”), from Proto-Iranian *cwáHdaH (“army”), q.v.

Proper noun

Isfahan

1. The third largest city of Iran, and former capital of Iran (1598–1736).
2. Isfahan Province, one of 31 provinces in Iran.

Related terms

• Isfahani

Translations

third largest city of Iran

• Arabic: أَصْفَهَان f (ʔaṣfahān), إِصْفَهَان f (ʔiṣfahān)
• Armenian: Սպահան (Spahan)

  Old Armenian: Ասպահան (Aspahan)

• Azerbaijani: İsfahan
• Bashkir: Исфаһан (İsfahan)
• Belarusian: Ісфахан (Isfaxan)
• Bengali: ইস্ফহান (iśphohan), ইস্পাহান (iśpahan)
• Bulgarian: Исфахан (Isfahan)
• Chechen: Исфахан (İsfaxan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 伊斯法罕 (zh) (Yīsīfǎhǎn)

• Czech: Isfahán
• Danish: Isfahan
• Dutch: Isfahan
• Finnish: Isfahan
• French: Ispahan (fr)
• Georgian: ისპაანი (isṗaani)
• German: Isfahan (de)
• Greek: Ισφαχάν (el) f (Isfachán)
• Hebrew: אספהאן f (esfahan)
• Hindi: इस्फ़हान (isfahān)
• Hungarian: Iszfahán (hu)
• Indonesian: Isfahan
• Irish: Isfahan
• Italian: Esfahan
• Japanese: イスファハン (Isufahan)
• Kazakh: Исфаһан (İsfahan)
• Korean: 이스파한 (iseupahan)
• Kyrgyz: Исфахан (İsfahan)
• Latvian: Isfahāna
• Lithuanian: Isfahanas
• Malay: Isfahan
• Mazanderani: اصفهون
• Ossetian: Исфахан (Isfaxan)
• Ottoman Turkish: اصفهان (İsfahān)
• Pashto: اصفهان
• Persian: اصفهان (fa) (esfahân), اسپهان (espahân), سپاهان (fa) (sepâhân)
• Portuguese: Isfahan f, Ispahan f, Esfahan f
• Russian: Исфаха́н (ru) m (Isfaxán)
• Serbo-Croatian: Isfahan (sh)
• Sindhi: اصفھان
• Spanish: Isfahán (es), Ispahán (es)
• Tajik: Исфаҳон (tg) (Isfahon)
• Tatar: Исфәһан (İsfähan)
• Thai: เอสแฟฮอน
• Turkish: İsfahan
• Turkmen: Yspyhan
• Urdu: اصفہان
• Uyghur: ئىسپاھان (ispahan)
• Uzbek: Isfahon

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

• Hanafis, faanish

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Ispahan, Esfahan, Ispaã, Ispaão
• Ispahã, Ispahão, Ispaan, Isfahã, Isfaã, Isfaão (rare)

Proper noun

Isfahan f

1. Isfahan (a city in Iran)