Tehran

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Tehran

  • /tɛˈɹæn/
  • /ˌtɛˈɹɑːn/

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A diacriticless transliteration of Iranian Persian تِهران (tehrân), from Classical Persian تَهران (tahrān). See there for more.

proper noun Tehrân · Teheran

  1. 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.
  2. A county of Iran, around the city.
  3. Tehran Province, one of the 31 provinces in Iran.
  4. The Tehran Conference (1943).
  5. metonymically 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 expe

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Closest in meaning: iran, iranian, islamic, teheran, capital, here, kabir, iranians, irna, zad, zada, zadeh, isfahan, mashhad, zawra', irân

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name capital of Iran

EspañolTeherán
한국어테헤란
日本語テヘラン
中文德黑蘭 /德黑兰 Déhēilán
हिन्दीतेहरान tehrān
KiswahiliTehran
PortuguêsTeerã, Teerão
FrançaisTéhéran
DeutschTeheran
ItalianoTeheran
ΕλληνικάΤεχεράνη Techeráni
RomânăTeheran
РусскийТегера́н Tegerán
Tiếng ViệtTê-hê-răng, Têhêran, Têhêrăng, Tề Lan
العربيةطَهْرَان ṭahrān
עבריתטֶהֱרָאן teherán

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@misc{tehran_2026,
  title = {Tehran},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tehran},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}