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Iranian
[ ih-rey-nee-uhn, ih-rah-, ahy-rey- ]
Iranian
/ ɪˈreɪnɪən /
noun
- a native, citizen, or inhabitant of Iran
- a branch of the Indo-European family of languages, divided into West Iranian (including Old Persian, Pahlavi, modern Persian, Kurdish, Baluchi, and Tajik) and East Iranian (including Avestan, Sogdian, Pashto, and Ossetic)
- AlsoPersianFarsi the modern Persian language
adjective
- relating to, denoting, or characteristic of Iran, its inhabitants, or their language; Persian
- belonging to or relating to the Iranian branch of Indo-European
Other Words From
- an·ti-I·ra·ni·an adjective noun
- pro-I·ra·ni·an adjective noun
- pseu·do-I·ra·ni·an adjective noun
- trans-I·ra·ni·an adjective
Example Sentences
“Under Suleimani several military branches have taken shape [in Iraq] which are run by Iran and the Iranian military,” he said.
A senior Iranian official in Pakistan later confirmed the strike took place, declining to elaborate.
Rights activists like Boledi, the Iranian Baluch dissident living in Sweden, harbor some of the same concerns.
A few weeks later, the militants carried out a series of raids on border posts, killing five Iranian policemen.
Saleem believes that the strike came from a nearby airbase across the Iranian border.
De Morgan believes that he has found proofs of their presence on the Iranian plateau at a comparatively late date.
Everything tended to more firmly fix in their structure the already long-inherited characters of their Iranian ancestors.
This notion of the way, which was also the truth and the life, seems to have existed before the separation of Indian from Iranian.
Its origin is hard to trace, but parts of the legends carry the investigator back to Iranian sources.
A lower and less pretentious variety of the same head-gear adorns the brow of the fin de sicle Iranian gallant.
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