In Modern Persian, the word Īrān (ایران) derives immediately from 3rd-century Middle Persian Ērān (𐭠𐭩𐭫𐭠𐭭), initially meaning "of the Aryans" before...

Iran: "which is the center of the world, [...] and it is the one wherein we are, and the kings called it the Iranian realm." The Modern Persian word Īrān...

display the Persian text in this article correctly. Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia...

their mythical homeland. The word stem also forms the etymological source of place names like Alania (*Aryāna-) and Iran (*Aryānām). Although the stem...

popular anthem in Iran "Iran Iran", a popular single by Mohammad Nouri Iran Air Tours Iran Aseman Airlines Iranian Air Transport Iran Air Iran (given name)...

subsequently, Iranians started avoiding the word "aurat" for 'women', due to its meaning of "nakedness". In (Ottoman) Turkish, the word 'avret' was used...

Dances in Iran or Iranian dances (Persian: رقص ایرانی) are dance styles indigenous to Iran. Genres of dance in Iran vary depending on the area, culture...

descendant of a hypothetical reconstructed Old Iranian word for "praise-song" (Bartholomae: Lobgesang); but this word is not actually attested in any text. The...

Hendurabi (Persian: هندورابی) is an Iranian island in the Persian Gulf. Its name is derived from the Persian word andar-abi (اندرآبی), meaning "inside...

𐎶𐎠𐏃 māha). It is the name of the lunar deity in Zoroastrianism. The Iranian word is masculine. Although Mah is not a prominent deity in the Avestan scripture...

Iranian peoples, predominantly in the Iranian Plateau. The Iranian languages are grouped in three stages: Old Iranian (until 400 BCE), Middle Iranian...

theonym is also unknown: most often his name has been combined with the Iranian word for sun, such as the Persian xoršid, or the Ossetian xor, but modern...

Equivalents for Avestan daeva in Iranian languages include Pashto, Balochi, Kurdish dêw, Persian dīv/deev. The Iranian word was borrowed by Old Armenian as...

in Iran. Univ of California Press. p. 157. ISBN 9780520280816. This discourse was eventually tagged with the Persian neologism osulgarāi, a word that...

the Proto-Indo-Iranian word *gaHtʰáH, from the root *gaH- "to sing". The Gathas are in verse, metrical in the nature of ancient Iranian religious poetry...

The relations between Iran and Israel are divided into four major phases: the ambivalent period from 1947 to 1953, the friendly period during the era of...

The Iranian revolution (Persian: انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân [ʔeɴɢeˌlɒːbe ʔiːɾɒːn]), also known as the 1979 revolution, or the Islamic revolution of...

Khorasan province, Iran Sanjan is also: Qissa-i Sanjan, an account of the early years of Zoroastrian settlers in India the Sanskrit word for 'Creator', and...

meetings with friends), essentially a paradise on earth. The Common Iranian word for "enclosed space" was *pari-daiza- (Avestan pairi-daēza-), a term...

central Zagros to the southwest of Sanandaj, western Iran. The name Parsua is from an old Iranian word Parsava and it is presumed to mean border or borderland...

Iran has research sites, two uranium mines, a research reactor, and uranium processing facilities that include three known uranium enrichment plants. Commencing...

from Old Iranian *R̥tāma-, interpreted as "having power of/from R̥ta." The auslaut of the Armenian name suggests a connection to the Iranian word for "king...

the Mitanni superstrate to Indo-Aryan rather than Iranian languages – i.e. the early Iranian word for "one" was aiva.[citation needed] The standard model...

Azerbaijan, Iran. Evripides Bekos, born 1991, Greek musician and composer. The Phrygian word for bread, reported by Herodotus as the first word of an infant...

is an Iranian communist organization that split from the Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas (OIFPG) in 1979, dropping the word "organization"...

first Supreme Leader of Iran, on 9 May 1980. The four curves, surmounted by the shadda, are a stylized representation of the word Allah. The five parts...

is a dialect used in some parts of Iran rather than the predominant (and official) language of the country. The word Farsi has never been used in any research...

The history of Iran (or Persia, as it was known in the Western world) is intertwined with Greater Iran, a sociocultural region spanning from Anatolia...

part of speech or part-of-speech (abbreviated as POS or PoS, also known as word class or grammatical category) is a category of words (or, more generally...

Hindi āp. The term is from PIE hxap "water". The Indo-Iranian word also survives as the Persian word for water, āb, e.g. in Punjab (from panj-āb "five waters")...