Iran Definition

ĭ-răn, ĭ-rän, ī-răn
pronoun

A country in the Middle East known as Persia until 1935. Its capital is Tehran. Official name: Islamic Republic of Iran.

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Iranian.
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Origin of Iran

  • From Middle Persian (ērān), from Proto-Iranian *aryānām (“of the Aryans”), genitive plural of *arya- (as in Old Persian (ariya-), Avestan (airiia-), Ossetic ир (ir, “Ossetian”)). Compare Parthian (aryān) and Sanskrit आर्य (ārya).

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Iran Sentence Examples

  • In 316 Antigonus had defeated and killed Eumenes and made himself supreme from the Aegean to Iran, and Cassander had 1 For details see separate articles on the chief generals.

  • Zoroastrianism was the national religion of Iran, but it was not permanently restricted to the Iranians, being professed by Turanians as well.

  • But in the middle of the 1st century B.C. the whole of eastern Iran and western India belonged to the great "Indo-Scythian" empire.

  • Thus the Kushanas were reduced to eastern Iran, where they had to fight against the Sassanids.

  • The non-Aryan population of Iran itself has been discussed above.

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Words Starting With

IIRIRA

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NANRAN

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