Iran

专有名词
中文释义
英 /ɪˈɹɑːn/|/ɪˈɹæːn/|/iːɹɑːn/|/iːɹæːn/    美 /ɪˈɹɑːn/|/ɪˈɹæːn/|/iːɹɑːn/|/iːɹæːn/|/aɪˈɹæn/

英文释义

专有名词
  1. A country in West Asia in the Middle East. Official name: Islamic Republic of Iran. Capital: Tehran.
    — The Persians, in naming their country, make use of one word, which they indifferently pronounce Iroun, and Iran.
  2. The regions inhabited by the Iranian peoples. literary
    — "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." "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."

词形变化

Irân alternative,rare Irān alternative,rare Îrân alternative,rare Īrān alternative,rare

词源

From Iranian Persian ایران (irân), from Classical Persian ایران (ērān), from Middle Persian 𐭠𐭩𐭥𐭠𐭭 (ʾērān, “of the Aryans”), which see 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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