Iran
UK/ɪˈɹɑːn/
More pronunciations (1)Fewer pronunciations
British/ɪˈɹɑːn/
Iran proper noun: a country in West Asia. Official name: Islamic Republic of Iran. Capital: Tehran.
Proper noun
Iran
- A country in West Asia. Official name: Islamic Republic of Iran. Capital: Tehran.
- The Persians, in naming their country, make use of one word, which they indifferently pronounce Iroun, and Iran.ca. 1675, Jean Chardin (Sir John Chardin), Travels in Persia, 1673-1677, fasc. reprint 1988, Dover, page 126
- 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.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 25
- The regions inhabited by the Iranian peoples.
- "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...1882, James Darmesteter, The Zend-Avesta, volume 1 (SBE, volume 31), Oxford UP, page 7, xxviii - "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."1898, A. V. W. Jackson, Zoroaster: The Prophet of Ancient Iran, Macmillan, page 10
- "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."
Iran meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
Iran in Hindi
- country in West Asia
- ईरान īrān, फारस phāras, पारस pāras
Iran in Tamil
- country in West Asia
- இரான் irāṉ, ஈரான் īrāṉ
Iran in Marathi
- country in West Asia
- इराण irāṇ
Iran in Urdu
- country in West Asia
- اِیران īrān
More languagesFewer languages
- Iran in Bengali
- ইরান iran
- Iran in Telugu
- ఇరాన్ irān
- Iran in Malayalam
- ഇറാൻ iṟāṉ
- Iran in Kannada
- ಇರಾನ್ irān
- Iran in Punjabi
- ਇਰਾਨ irān, ایران pnb
- Iran in Gujarati
- ઈરાન īrān
- Iran in Odia
- ଇରାନ irāna
- Iran in Sanskrit
- ईरान īrāna
- Iran in Sinhala
- ඉරානය irānaya
- Iran in Assamese
- ইৰান iran
- Iran in Nepali
- इरान irān
- Iran in Pashto
- ايران irān
- Iran in Tagalog
- Iran
- Iran in Arabic
- إِيرَان ʔīrān
- Iran in Malay
- Iran
- Iran in Indonesian
- Iran
- Iran in Persian
- ایرَان ērān, اِیرَان īrān, ایران irân
- Iran in Thai
- อิหร่าน ì-ràan
- Iran in Vietnamese
- Y Lãng, I-ran, Ba Tư
- Iran in Myanmar
- အီရန် iran
- Sindhi
- ايران āerā̃
- Kashmiri
- ایٖران īrān
- Dzongkha
- ཨི་རཱན་ i rān
Examples of Iran in a sentence
- "Iran is a vast and ancient country in a strategic location in the Middle East.2005, Massoume Price, editor, Iran's Diverse Peoples, ABC-Clio, page xiii:
- 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.2019 June 26, Frederik Pleitgen, Eliza Mackintosh, “US is ‘not in a position to obliterate Iran,’ Iranian foreign minister says”, in CNN...
- "[W]e may surmise that there was a strong sense of Iranian unity lending solidarity to the eastern half of the empire.1985, J. M. Cooke, “The Rise of the Achaemenids”, in Cambridge Historiy of Iran, volume 2, page 290:
- "[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."1990, Hubert Darke, “Cambridge History of Iran”, in Encyclopedia Iranica, volume 4, page 724:
Forms of Iran
| alternative form (rare) | Irân |
|---|---|
| alternative form (rare) | Irān |
| alternative form (rare) | Îrân |
| alternative form (rare) | Īrān |
Origin of Iran
Borrowed from Iranian Persian ایران (Irân), from Classical Persian ایران (ērān), from Middle Persian 𐭠𐭩𐭥𐭠𐭭 (ʾērān, “of the Aryans”), which see 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, i.e. the great variety of Iranian tribes that spoke an Iranian language. Doublet of Arya and Aryan.
Words formed from Iran
Phrases with Iran
Words that rhyme with Iran
Questions about Iran
- What does Iran mean?
- Iran means a country in West Asia. Official name: Islamic Republic of Iran. Capital: Tehran.
- What is Iran in Hindi?
- Iran in Hindi is ईरान (īrān), फारस (phāras), पारस (pāras). See Iran meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use Iran in a sentence?
- "Iran is a vast and ancient country in a strategic location in the Middle East.
- What part of speech is Iran?
- Iran is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Iran?
- Iran is pronounced /ɪˈɹɑːn/ (UK).
Words near Iran in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Iran (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.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: En-us-Iran-noun.ogg.
Cite this entry: “Iran.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/iran. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.