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Erivan

Erivan is the obsolete form of Yerevan.

Meaning of Yerevan

Proper noun

Yerevan

  1. The capital and largest city of Armenia.
    • Before long Abbas Mirza suffered a succession of defeats, which culminated in the capture of Erivan, today capital of Armenia.1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 99
  2. (metonymically) The Armenian government.

Questions about Erivan

What is Erivan the obsolete form of?
Erivan is the obsolete form of Yerevan.

Words near Erivan in the dictionary

  1. Eritrean Catholic
  2. Eritrean Catholics
  3. Eritreanness
  4. Eritreans
  5. Eritreo-
  6. Erivan
  7. erization
  8. erizational
  9. erizo
  10. erizos
  11. erk

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Erivan (page history and authors); Yerevan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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