Tehran

Tehran

See also: Tehrân

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɛˈɹæn/, /ˌtɛˈɹɑːn/
  • enPR: tě-ränʹ[1][2]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: Teh‧ran

Proper noun

Tehran

  1. The capital city of Iran, the seat of Tehran County's Central District and the capital of Tehran Province.
    • 2013 June 13, Sune Engel Rasmussen, “After Torture and Persecution, Iranian Activists Work From Inside the U.S.”, in The Atlantic[1], archived from the original on 1 October 2014:
      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. (by ellipsis) The Tehran Conference (1943).
  5. (metonymic) The government of Iran.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

References

  1. ^ Seltzer, Leon E., editor (1952), “Teheran or Tehran”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1888, column 1
  2. ^ “Teh·ran or Te·he·ran”, in The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 760, column 1

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Tehran

  1. alternative form of Teheran

Derived terms

  • Tehranner
  • Tehrans

Azerbaijani

Proper noun

Tehran

  1. Tehran (the capital city of Iran)
  2. Tehran (a province of Iran)

Tatar

Proper noun

Tehran

  1. nonstandard spelling of Tähran (Tehran (the capital city of Iran, the seat of Tehran County's Central District and the capital of Tehran Province))

Declension

Declension of Tehran
nominative Tehran
genitive Tehrannıñ
dative Tehranga
accusative Tehrannı
locative Tehranda
ablative Tehrandan