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
Proper noun
Tehran
- 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.
- A county of Iran, around the city.
- Tehran Province, one of the 31 provinces in Iran.
- (by ellipsis) The Tehran Conference (1943).
- (metonymic) The government of Iran.
- 2026 April 5, jamelle-bouie, “racism makes you stupid”, in YouTube[2]:
- 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 expect this level of sophistication from Tehran — they just didn’t expect it at all.
Derived terms
Translations
capital of Iran
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See also
provinces of Iranedit
- Alborz
- Ardabil
- Bushehr
- Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari
- East Azerbaijan
- Fars
- Gilan
- Golestan
- Hamadan
- Hormozgan
- Ilam
- Isfahan
- Kerman
- Kermanshah
- Khuzestan
- Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad
- Kurdistan
- Lorestan
- Markazi
- Mazandaran
- North Khorasan
- Qazvin
- Qom
- Razavi Khorasan
- Semnan
- Sistan and Baluchestan
- South Khorasan
- Tehran
- West Azerbaijan
- Yazd
- Zanjan
References
- ^ 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
- ^ “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
- alternative form of Teheran
Derived terms
- Tehranner
- Tehrans
Azerbaijani
Proper noun
Tehran
Tatar
Proper noun
Tehran
- 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
| nominative | Tehran |
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| genitive | Tehrannıñ |
| dative | Tehranga |
| accusative | Tehrannı |
| locative | Tehranda |
| ablative | Tehrandan |