Mashhad

American  

[mash-had] / mæʃˈhæd /

noun

1. Persian name of Meshed.

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Mashhad British  

/ mæʃˈhæd /

noun

1. a city in NE Iran: an important holy city of Shi'ite Muslims; carpet manufacturing. Pop: 2 147 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

Damnabi, 29, told Reuters the photo was taken in the holy Shi'ite city of Mashhad, one of Iran's most conservative places, where women would only be photographed provided their faces were not shown.

From Reuters

Catherine Colonna, the French foreign minister, said in a statement on Friday that Mr. Brière and Mr. Phelan had left the prison in Mashhad, a city in northeastern Iran, where they were kept.

From New York Times

In the same month, a Sunni extremist refugee from Afghanistan stabbed three Shia clerics, killing two of them, at a religious shrine in the northeastern city of Mashhad.

From New York Times

Last April, two clerics were killed and a third was injured in a knife attack at a Shia shrine in the north-eastern city of Mashhad.

From BBC

The Iranian cities of Tehran and Mashhad already appear as possible destinations on the website of Saudia, Saudi Arabia’s state airline, but no flights are scheduled.

From New York Times