iran
NounUS[ir-ahn]/ˌɪˈrɑn/2 syllablesalso [ahy-ran] /ˌaɪˈræn/
Open English WordNet
Noun (1)
- a theocratic Islamic republic in the Middle East in western Asia; Iran was the core of the ancient empire that was known as Persia until 1935; rich in oilSynonyms: Islamic Republic of IranPersiaInstance of Asian country, Asian nationPart of Middle East, Arab states of the Persian Gulf, AsiaParts Isfahan, Kurdistan, Persepolis, Damavand, Shiraz, Tabriz, Bam, Caspian +9 moreMember of Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries, OPECMembers Irani, Iranian
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Translations
Proper noun country in West Asia
- Spanish
- Irán
- French
- Iran
- German
- Iran
- Italian
- Iran
- Portuguese
- Irã
- Turkish
- İran
- Russian
- Ира́н Irán
- Arabic
- إِيرَان ʔīrān
- Chinese
- 伊朗 Yīlǎng
- Japanese
- イラン Iran
33 more languages
- Dutch
- Iran
- Polish
- Iran
- Swedish
- Iran
- Greek
- Ιράν Irán
- Korean
- 이란 Iran
- Indonesian
- Iran
- Vietnamese
- I-ran
- Hungarian
- Irán
- Portuguese (PT)
- Irão
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 伊朗 Yīlǎng
- Albanian
- Iran
- Breton
- Iran
- Catalan
- Iran
- Corsican
- Iranu
- Czech
- Írán
- Danish
- Iran
- Esperanto
- Irano
- Estonian
- Iraan
- Finnish
- Iran
- Georgian
- ირანი irani
- Hebrew
- אִירָאן irán
- Icelandic
- Íran
- Kurdish
- Îran
- Latvian
- Irāna
- Lithuanian
- Iranas
- Norwegian
- Iran
- Romanian
- Iran
- Serbo-Croatian
- Iran
- Slovak
- Irán
- Slovenian
- Iran
- Swahili
- Iran
- Welsh
- Iran
- Yiddish
- איראַן iran
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
I′ran′ (ē′rän′), noun
Origin: Mod. Persian Irān. Cf. Aryan.
The native name of Persia, the name adopted by the modern nation of Iran.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: +PJC