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Iran

/ɪˈɹɑːn/ UK
/ɪˈɹæn/ UK
/iːɹɑːn/ UK
/iːɹæn/ UK
/ɪˈɹɑːn/ British, Southern, Standard
/ɪˈɹan/ British, Southern, Standard
/ɪˈɹɑn/ Canada, US
/ɪˈɹæn/ Canada, US
/iɹɑn/ Canada, US
/iɹæn/ Canada, US
/aɪˈɹæn/ Canada, US
/ɪˈɹɐːn/ Australia
/ɪˈɹæn/ Australia
/əˈɹɐːn/ New Zealand
/əˈɹɛn/ New Zealand
/ɪˈɾan/ Scotland
/ɪˈɾaːn/ Wales
/ɪˈɾan/ Wales

Rhymes with -ɑːn, -æn

Where it comes from

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.

proper noun Irân · Irān · Îrân · Īrān

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.
literary 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 hom

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: persia, bahrain, iraq, irani, iraqi, tehran, iranian, bushehr, muslim, islamic, moslem, islamist, teheran, us, queen, country

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name country in West Asia

Español	Irán
中文	伊朗 Yīlǎng
हिन्दी	ईरान īrān, फारस phāras, पारस pāras
Kiswahili	Uajemi
Français	Iran
Deutsch	Iran
Italiano	Iran
Ελληνικά	Ιράν Irán
Română	Iran
Русский	Ира́н Irán
Tiếng Việt	Y Lãng, I-ran, Ba Tư
العربية	إِيرَان ʔīrān
עברית	אִירָאן irán

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@misc{iran_2026,
  title = {Iran},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/iran},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}