Tehran
Syllables: Teh·ran/tɛˈɹæn/
Tehran proper noun: the capital city of Iran, the seat of Tehran County's Central District and the capital of Tehran Province.
Proper noun
Tehran
- The capital city of Iran, the seat of Tehran County's Central District and the capital of Tehran Province.
- Three days after the presidential elections, Tehran was in upheaval.2013 June 13, Sune Engel Rasmussen, “After Torture and Persecution, Iranian Activists Work From Inside the U.S.”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 01 Oct 2014
- A county of Iran, around the city.
- Tehran Province, one of the 31 provinces in Iran.
- The Tehran Conference (1943).
- The government of Iran.
- I want to add one more thing to that: one thing that you will read in all the reporting of the war; all the decision making; all the ways this has turned into a mess for the administration — one thing you’ll see is that they just did not expect this level of resistance from Tehran; they did not...2026 May 4, jamelle-bouie, “racism makes you stupid”, in YouTube
Tehran meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
Tehran in Hindi
- capital of Iran
- तेहरान tehrān
Tehran in Tamil
- capital of Iran
- தெஹரான் teharāṉ, தெகுரான் tekurāṉ
Tehran in Marathi
- capital of Iran
- तेहरान tehrān
Tehran in Urdu
- capital of Iran
- تَہْران tahrān
More languagesFewer languages
- Tehran in Bengali
- তেহরান tehoran, তেহ্রাণ tehran
- Tehran in Telugu
- టెహరాన ṭeharāna
- Tehran in Malayalam
- ടെഹ്റാൻ ṭehṟāṉ
- Tehran in Kannada
- ತೆಹ್ರಾನ್ tehrān
- Tehran in Punjabi
- ਤਹਿਰਾਨ tahirān, ਤਿਹ੍ਰਾਨ tihrān
- Tehran in Gujarati
- તેહરાન tehrān
- Tehran in Odia
- ତେହେରାନ teherāna
- Tehran in Sinhala
- ටෙහ්රාන් ṭehrān
- Tehran in Assamese
- তেহৰাণ tehoran
- Tehran in Nepali
- तेहरान teharān
- Tehran in Pashto
- تهران tehrān
- Tehran in Tagalog
- Teherán
- Tehran in Arabic
- طَهْرَان ṭahrān
- Tehran in Malay
- Teheran
- Tehran in Thai
- เตหะราน dtee-hà-raan
- Tehran in Vietnamese
- Tê-hê-răng, Têhêran, Têhêrăng, Tề Lan
- Tehran in Myanmar
- တီဟီရန် tihiran
Forms of Tehran
| alternative form | Tehrân |
|---|---|
| alternative form (dated) | Teheran |
Origin of Tehran
A diacriticless transliteration of Iranian Persian تِهران (tehrân), from Classical Persian تَهران (tahrān). See there for more.
Words formed from Tehran
Questions about Tehran
- What does Tehran mean?
- Tehran means the capital city of Iran, the seat of Tehran County's Central District and the capital of Tehran Province.
- What is Tehran in Hindi?
- Tehran in Hindi is तेहरान (tehrān). See Tehran meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Tehran?
- Tehran is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Tehran?
- Tehran is pronounced /tɛˈɹæn/.
Words near Tehran in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Tehran (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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