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Type Country
Usage Persian, Arabic, English, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Greek, Hebrew, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Urdu, Hindi, Indonesian, Malay, Burmese, Thai, Tagalog, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian
Scripts ایران(Persian, Urdu) إيران(Arabic) Иран(Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Mongolian Cyrillic) Іран(Ukrainian) Ιράν(Greek) יראן(Hebrew) ईरान(Hindi) အီရန်(Burmese) อิหร่าน(Thai) イラン(Japanese Katakana) 이란(Korean Hangul)
Pronounced Pron. /ʔiː.ˈɾɒːn/(Persian) /ʔiː.ˈraːn/(Arabic) /ɪ.ˈɹɑːn/(English) /ɪ.ˈɹæn/(English) /aɪ.ˈɹæn/(English) /i.ʁɑ̃/(French) /i.ˈʁaːn/(German) /ˈi.ran/(Polish) /i.ɾäɴ/(Japanese) /i.ɾan/(Korean)
Meaning & History
Derived from Middle Persian Eran, related to Old Iranian Arya meaning "Iranian, Aryan". This is the name of a country in western Asia, formerly called Persia in the West.