Tehran

English

Alternative forms

• Teheran

Etymology

Diacriticless transliteration of Iranian Persian تِهران (tehrân), from Classical Persian تَهران (tahrān). Ahmad Kasravi believed the word "Tehran" is derived from an Indo-European language and originally meant "the Hot Place" ("teh" meaning "hot", and "rān" meaning "place"). (Karvand Kasravi, page 273).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.ɹæn/, /ˈteəɹ.ɑːn/

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• Hyphenation: Teh‧ran

Proper noun

Tehran

1. The capital city of Iran.
2. Tehran Province, one of 31 provinces in Iran.
3. (by ellipsis) The Tehran Conference (1943).
4. (metonymically) the government of Iran

Derived terms

• Tehrangeles
• Tehrani
• Tehranian

 

Translations

capital of Iran

• Adyghe: Тегеран (Teɣeran)
• Afrikaans: Teheran
• Albanian: Teheran m
• Amharic: ቴህራን (tehran)
• Arabic: طَهْرَان f (ṭahrān)
• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܛܗܪܢ

• Armenian: Թեհրան (hy) (Tʿehran)
• Assamese: তেহৰাণ (tehoran)
• Asturian: Teḥrán
• Azerbaijani: Tehran (az)
• Basque: Teheran
• Belarusian: Тэгера́н m (Tehjerán)
• Bengali: তেহরান (tehoran), তেহ্রাণ (tehran)
• Brahui: Taerán
• Bulgarian: Техера́н m (Teherán)
• Burmese: တီဟီရန် (tihiran)
• Catalan: Teheran
• Chechen: Техӏран (Tehran)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 德黑蘭／德黑兰 (dak¹ hak¹ laan⁴)

  Mandarin: 德黑蘭／德黑兰 (zh) (Déhēilán)

• Czech: Teherán (cs) m
• Danish: Teheran n
• Dutch: Teheran (nl) n
• Esperanto: Teherano (eo), Tehrano
• Estonian: Teheran (et)
• Finnish: Teheran (fi)
• French: Téhéran (fr) m
• Galician: Teherán (gl)
• Georgian: თეირანი (ka) (teirani)
• German: Teheran (de) n
• Greek: Τεχεράνη (el) (Techeráni)
• Gujarati: તેહરાન (tehrān)
• Hebrew: טֶהֱרָאן f (teherán)
• Hindi: तेहरान m (tehrān)
• Hungarian: Teherán (hu)
• Icelandic: Teheran
• Italian: Teheran (it)
• Japanese: テヘラン (ja) (Teheran)
• Kabardian: Дыхьэрэн (Dəḥɛrɛn)
• Kannada: ತೆಹ್ರಾನ್ (tehrān)
• Kazakh: Тегеран (Tegeran)
• Khmer: តេហេរ៉ង់ (km) (teeheerɑng)
• Korean: 테헤란 (ko) (Teheran)
• Kumyk: Тегьран (Tehran)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: تاران (ckb) (taran)

  Northern Kurdish: Tehran (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: Тегеран (Tegeran)
• Lak: Тегьеран (Teheran)
• Lao: ເຕເຮຣານ (tē hē rān)
• Latvian: Teherāna f
• Lithuanian: Teheranas m
• Macedonian: Техеран m (Teheran)
• Malay: Teheran
• Malayalam: ടെഹ്റാൻ (ṭehṟāṉ)
• Maltese: Teħran m
• Maori: Teherane
• Marathi: तेहरान (tehrān)
• Mazanderani: تهرون (tehrun)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Тегеран (Tegeran)

• Navajo: Tʼehewan
• Nepali: तेहरान (teharān)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Teheran n

  Nynorsk: Teheran n

• Odia: ତେହେରାନ (teheranô)
• Ossetian: Тӕхран (Tæxran)
• Pashto: تهران m (tehrān)
• Persian:

  Classical Persian: تَهْرَان (fa) (tahrān)

  Dari: تَهْرَان (fa) (tahrān)

  Iranian Persian: تِهْران (fa) (tehrân), تِهْرون (tehrun) (colloquial, Tehrani)

• Polish: Teheran (pl) m
• Portuguese: Teerã (pt) f (Brazil), Teerão (pt) m (Portugal)
• Punjabi: ਤਹਿਰਾਨ (tahirān), ਤਿਹ੍ਰਾਨ (tihrān)
• Romanian: Teheran (ro)
• Russian: Тегера́н (ru) m (Tegerán)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Те̏хера̄н m

  Roman: Tȅherān (sh) m

• Sinhalese: ටෙහ්රාන් (ṭehrān)
• Slovak: Teherán (sk) m
• Slovene: Teheran m
• Spanish: Teherán (es) m
• Swahili: Tehran
• Swedish: Teheran (sv) n
• Tagalog: Teherán
• Tajik: Теҳрон (tg) (Tehron)
• Tamil: தெஹரான் (ta) (teharāṉ) or தெகுரான் (tekurāṉ)
• Tatar: Техран (Texran)
• Telugu: టెహరాన (ṭeharāna)
• Thai: เตหะราน (dtee-hà-raan)
• Tibetan: ཏེ་ཧི་རན (te hi ran)
• Turkish: Tahran (tr)
• Turkmen: Tähran
• Ukrainian: Тегера́н m (Teherán)
• Urdu: تَہْران m (tahrān)
• Uyghur: تېھران (tëhran)
• Uzbek: Tehron
• Vietnamese: Tê-hê-răng, Têhêran, Têhêrăng, Tề Lan
• Yiddish: טעהראַן n (tehran)

See also

• (provinces of Iran) Alborz, Ardabil, Bushehr, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, East Azerbaijan, Isfahan, Fars, Gilan, Golestan, Hamadan, Hormozgan, Ilam, 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 ^{(Category: en:Provinces of Iran)}

Anagrams

• anther, arthen, harten, nather, thenar

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Tehran

1. Alternative form of Teheran

Derived terms

• Tehranner
• Tehrans

Azerbaijani

Proper noun

Tehran

1. Tehran (the capital city of Iran)
2. Tehran (a province of Iran)

Tatar

Proper noun

Tehran

1. Tehran (the capital city of Iran)

Declension

declension of Tehran

	singular	plural
nominative	Tehran	Tehran
genitive	Tehran	Tehran
dative	Tehran	Tehran
accusative	Tehran	Tehran
locative	Tehran	Tehran
ablative	Tehran	Tehran