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Iranian

Also ··Ծ

[ih-rey-nee-uhn, ih-rah-, ahy-rey-]

adjective

  1. of or relating to Iran, its inhabitants, or their language.

  2. of or relating to the Iranian languages.



noun

  1. a subbranch of the Indo-European family of languages, including especially Persian, Pashto, Avestan, and Kurdish.

  2. an inhabitant of Iran; Persian.

Iranian

/ ɪˈɪɪə /

noun

  1. a native, citizen, or inhabitant of Iran

  2. 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)

  3. Also: Persian. Farsi.the modern Persian language

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. relating to, denoting, or characteristic of Iran, its inhabitants, or their language; Persian

  2. belonging to or relating to the Iranian branch of Indo-European

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • anti-Iranian adjective
  • pro-Iranian adjective
  • pseudo-Iranian adjective
  • trans-Iranian adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of Iranian1

First recorded in 1835–45; Iran + -ian
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Others, unsure how far the U.S. and Israel will go — whether they still stop at crippling Iran’s nuclear and missile programs or push for regime change — fear the impacts of the Iranian state disintegrating.

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Over the past week, Fox News has hosted few, if any, Iranian voices or much in the way of opposition to Israel’s war.

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Iranian state media reported that the strike targeted a military site next to the hospital, and not the facility itself.

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The president is reportedly considering strikes on the Iranian nuclear site Fordo, a subterranean uranium enrichment facility.

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Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, said on Friday that it was targeting the Iranian nuclear programme because "if not stopped, Iran could produce a nuclear weapon in a very short time".

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