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Iranosphere

/ɪˈrɑːnəˌsfɪə/

Iranosphere proper noun: the cultural and civilizational sphere historically influenced by Iranian peoples, Iranian languages, and Persianate political and literary traditions.

Proper noun

the Iranosphere

  1. The cultural and civilizational sphere historically influenced by Iranian peoples, Iranian languages, and Persianate political and literary traditions.
    1. The geographic zone corresponding to Greater Iran.
      • [...] the land of Iran during the Sasanian era of 210s-620s CE, aka Greater Iran, the Iranosphere or Persosphere.2025, Daniel Beben, Jo-Ann Gross, editors, Genealogical History in the Persianate World, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN

Synonyms of Iranosphere

Origin of Iranosphere

From Iran + -o- + -sphere, modeled on terms such as Anglosphere and Sinosphere.

Questions about Iranosphere

What does Iranosphere mean?
Iranosphere means the cultural and civilizational sphere historically influenced by Iranian peoples, Iranian languages, and Persianate political and literary traditions.
What part of speech is Iranosphere?
Iranosphere is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Iranosphere?
Iranosphere is pronounced /ɪˈrɑːnəˌsfɪə/.

Words near Iranosphere in the dictionary

  1. Iranophobes
  2. Iranophobia
  3. Iranophobic
  4. Iranophone
  5. Iranophones
  6. Iranosphere
  7. Iranun
  8. Iranzamin
  9. Iraq
  10. Iraq al-Ajam
  11. Iraqgate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Iranosphere (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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