English Explanatory Dictionary

Tehran

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The capital city of Iran, the seat of Tehran County's Central District and the capital of Tehran Province.
  2. A county of Iran, around the city.
  3. Tehran Province, one of the 31 provinces in Iran.
  4. The Tehran Conference (1943).
  5. The government of Iran.

Pronunciation

/tɛˈɹæn/ /ˌtɛˈɹɑːn/ tě-ränʹ En-Tehran.ogg

Word forms

Tehran Teheran Tehrân

Etymology

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

Derived words

Tehrangeles Tehrani Tehranian

Translations

Afrikaans: Teheran Albanian: Teheran Amharic: ቴህራን Arabic: طَهْرَان Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܛܗܪܢ Armenian: Թեհրան Assamese: তেহৰাণ Asturian: Teḥrán Asturian: Tehrán Asturian: Teherán Azerbaijani: Tehran Basque: Teheran Belarusian: Тэгера́н Bengali: তেহরান Bengali: তেহ্রাণ Brahui: Taerán Bulgarian: Техера́н Burmese: တီဟီရန် Catalan: Teheran Chechen: Техӏран Cherokee: ᏖᎳᏂ Chinese Cantonese: 德黑蘭 /德黑兰 Chinese Mandarin: 德黑蘭 /德黑兰 East Circassian: Дыхьэрэн West Circassian: Тегеран Czech: Teherán Danish: Teheran Dutch: Teheran Esperanto: Teherano Esperanto: Tehrano Estonian: Teheran Finnish: Teheran French: Téhéran Galician: Teherán Georgian: თეირანი German: Teheran Greek: Τεχεράνη Gujarati: તેહરાન Hebrew: טֶהֱרָאן Hindi: तेहरान Hungarian: Teherán Icelandic: Teheran Italian: Teheran Japanese: テヘラン
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