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"etymology_text": "From Iranian Persian ایران (irân), from Classical Persian ایران (ērān), from Middle Persian 𐭠𐭩𐭥𐭠𐭭 (ʾērān, “of the Aryans”). See 𐭠𐭩𐭥𐭠𐭭 (ʾērān) for word formation, further etymology and cognates. The name of the political entity is a 3rd-century development that derives from the indigenous ethnolinguistic name of the Iranian peoples, i.e. the great variety of Iranian tribes that spoke an Iranian language.",
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"word": "Greater Iran"
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"ref": "ca. 1675, Jean Chardin (Sir John Chardin), Travels in Persia, 1673-1677, fasc. reprint 1988, Dover, page 126",
"text": "The Persians, in naming their country, make use of one word, which they indifferently pronounce Iroun, and Iran."
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"ref": "1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 25",
"text": "Light was happiness; and the people of Iran, the land of light, were the favourites of heaven; while those of Turan, the gloomy region beyond the mountains to the north, were its enemies.",
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"ref": "2005, Massoume Price, editor, Iran's Diverse Peoples, ABC-Clio, page xiii",
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"roman": "Džamtʷʼəla",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
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"word": "የኢራን"
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"word": "ܐܝܼܪܵܢ"
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"word": "Իրան"
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"word": "အီရန်"
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"word": "ཨི་རཱན་"
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"word": "ʻIlana"
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"ref": "1882, James Darmesteter, The Zend-Avesta, volume 1 (SBE, volume 31), Oxford UP, page 7, xxviii",
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"ref": "1985, J. M. Cooke, “The Rise of the Achaemenids”, in Cambridge Historiy of Iran, volume 2, page 290",
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"ref": "1990, Hubert Darke, “Cambridge History of Iran”, in Encyclopedia Iranica, volume 4, page 724",
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"ref": "ca. 1675, Jean Chardin (Sir John Chardin), Travels in Persia, 1673-1677, fasc. reprint 1988, Dover, page 126",
"text": "The Persians, in naming their country, make use of one word, which they indifferently pronounce Iroun, and Iran."
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"ref": "1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 25",
"text": "Light was happiness; and the people of Iran, the land of light, were the favourites of heaven; while those of Turan, the gloomy region beyond the mountains to the north, were its enemies.",
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"ref": "2005, Massoume Price, editor, Iran's Diverse Peoples, ABC-Clio, page xiii",
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"ref": "1882, James Darmesteter, The Zend-Avesta, volume 1 (SBE, volume 31), Oxford UP, page 7, xxviii",
"text": "\"Kavi means a king, but it is particularly used of the kings belonging to the second and most celebrated of the two mythical dynasties of Iran.\"\n\"One certain fact is the occurrence of geographical names [Bactria, Sogdiana, etc] in Vendidad I, which are obviously intended to describe the earliest homes of the Iranian races whose lore was the Avesta.\""
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"ref": "1898, A. V. W. Jackson, Zoroaster: The Prophet of Ancient Iran, Macmillan, page 10",
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"ref": "1909, “Iran”, in John Huston Finley, editor, Nelson's Perpetual Loose-leaf Encyclopaedia, volume 6, page 479",
"text": "Iran. in early times, the name applied to the great Asiatic plateau which comprised the entire region from the Caucasus, the Caspian Sea, and Russian Turkestan on the north to the Tigris, the Persian Gulf, and the Arabian Sea on the west and south, and extending to the Indus on the east, likewise comprising the modern Afghanistan and the territory to the north of it as far as the Jaxartes River.",
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"ref": "1985, J. M. Cooke, “The Rise of the Achaemenids”, in Cambridge Historiy of Iran, volume 2, page 290",
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"ref": "1990, Hubert Darke, “Cambridge History of Iran”, in Encyclopedia Iranica, volume 4, page 724",
"text": "[The] Cambridge History of Iran [is] a survey of the history and historical geography of the land which is present-day Iran, as well as other territories inhabited by peoples of Iranian descent.",
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"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "အီရန်"
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{
"code": "ka",
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"word": "ირანი"
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"sense": "country in Western Asia",
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"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "Irán"
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"code": "is",
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"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "Íran"
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"code": "id",
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"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "Iran"
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"code": "ia",
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"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "Iran"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "Iran"
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"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "Iran"
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"code": "kam",
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"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "Iran"
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"code": "kn",
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"word": "ಇರಾನ್"
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"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "ایٖران"
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"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "Иран"
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"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "អ៊ីរ៉ង់"
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"code": "ki",
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"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "Iran"
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"code": "ko",
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"sense": "country in Western Asia",
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"code": "ckb",
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"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "ئێران"
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"code": "kmr",
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"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "Îran"
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"word": "Иран"
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"code": "lo",
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"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "ອີລ່ານ"
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{
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "ʼī rān",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "ອີຣານ"
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"sense": "country in Western Asia",
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"word": "Irania"
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"code": "lv",
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"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Irāna"
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{
"code": "lt",
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"sense": "country in Western Asia",
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"word": "Iranas"
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{
"code": "luy",
"lang": "Luhya",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "Iran"
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"code": "mk",
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"sense": "country in Western Asia",
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"word": "Иран"
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{
"code": "ms",
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"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "Iran"
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"code": "ml",
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"roman": "iṟāṉ",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "ഇറാൻ"
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"sense": "country in Western Asia",
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"word": "l-Iran"
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{
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "Īrāna"
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{
"code": "mr",
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"roman": "irāṇ",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "इराण"
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"code": "mzn",
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"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "ایران"
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"code": "mer",
"lang": "Meru",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "Iran"
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"code": "pal",
"lang": "Middle Persian",
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"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "𐭠𐭩𐭥𐭠𐭭"
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"code": "pal",
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"roman": "ʾyʿʾnštʿy",
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"word": "𐭠𐭩𐭥𐭠𐭭𐭱𐭲𐭥𐭩"
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"code": "mn",
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"sense": "country in Western Asia",
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"word": "Иран"
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"code": "mn",
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"word": "ᠢᠷᠠᠨ"
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"code": "nv",
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"sense": "country in Western Asia",
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"code": "ne",
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"roman": "irān",
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"word": "इरान"
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{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "Iran"
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"code": "nn",
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"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "Iran"
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{
"code": "or",
"lang": "Odia",
"roman": "iranô",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "ଇରାନ"
},
{
"code": "os",
"lang": "Ossetian",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"tags": [
"Iran"
],
"word": "Иран"
},
{
"code": "xpr",
"lang": "Parthian",
"roman": "aryān",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "𐭀𐭓𐭉𐭀𐭍"
},
{
"code": "ps",
"lang": "Pashto",
"roman": "irān",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ايران"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"raw_tags": [
"Classical Persian"
],
"roman": "ērān",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "ایرَان"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"raw_tags": [
"Classical Persian"
],
"roman": "īrān",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "اِیرَان"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Dari",
"roman": "ērān",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "ایرَان"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Iranian Persian",
"roman": "irân",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "ایران"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "Iran"
},
{
"code": "pt-br",
"lang": "Brazilian Portuguese",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Irã"
},
{
"code": "pt-pt",
"lang": "European Portuguese",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Irão"
},
{
"code": "pa",
"lang": "Punjabi",
"roman": "irān",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "ਇਰਾਨ"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Iran"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "Irán",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Ира́н"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "īrāna",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "ईरान"
},
{
"code": "sat",
"lang": "Santali",
"roman": "iran",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "ᱤᱨᱟᱱ"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "Ѝра̄н"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "Ìrān"
},
{
"code": "sd",
"lang": "Sindhi",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "ايران"
},
{
"code": "si",
"lang": "Sinhalese",
"roman": "irānaya",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "ඉරානය"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Irán"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Iran"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Irán"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "Uajemi"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Iran"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "Iran"
},
{
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "Eron",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "Эрон"
},
{
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"tags": [
"Iron"
],
"word": "Ирон"
},
{
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "īrāṉ",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "ஈரான்"
},
{
"code": "tt",
"lang": "Tatar",
"roman": "İran",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "Иран"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "irān",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "ఇరాన్"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "ì-ràan",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "อิหร่าน"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "yi lang",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "ཡི་ལང"
},
{
"code": "ti",
"lang": "Tigrinya",
"roman": "ʾiran",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "ኢራን"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "İran"
},
{
"code": "tk",
"lang": "Turkmen",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "Eýran"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "Irán",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Іра́н"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "īrān",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "اِیران"
},
{
"code": "ug",
"lang": "Uyghur",
"roman": "iran",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "ئىران"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "Eron"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "Y Lãng"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "I-ran"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "Lirän"
},
{
"code": "lah",
"lang": "Western Panjabi",
"roman": "pnb",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "ایران"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "iran",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "איראַן"
},
{
"code": "yo",
"lang": "Yoruba",
"sense": "country in Western Asia",
"word": "Irani"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Iran",
"Iran (word)"
],
"word": "Iran"
}
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