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Iranian

DEFINITIONS OF: Iranian

1

adj of or relating to Iran or its people or language or culture

“Iranian mountains”
“Iranian security police”
Synonyms:
Persian

n a native or inhabitant of Iran

Synonyms:
Irani, Persian
Examples:
Artaxerxes I
king of Persia who sanctioned the practice of Judaism in Jerusalem (?-424 BC)
Artaxerxes II
king of Persia who subdued numerous revolutions and made peace with Sparta (?-359 BC)
Types:
Farsi
a person of Iranian descent
Type of:
Asian, Asiatic
a native or inhabitant of Asia

n the modern Persian language spoken in Iran

Synonyms:
Iranian language
Types:
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Avestan, Zend
an ancient Iranian language
Gathic
an ancient Iranian language
Farsi, Persian
the language of Persia (Iran) in any of its ancient forms
Dari, Dari Persian
an Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan
Tadzhik, Tajik, Tajiki
the Iranian language of the Tajik that is closely related to Farsi; spoken in Iran and Tajikistan
Kurdish
an Iranian language spoken in Turkey and Iran and Iraq and Syria and Russia
Balochi, Baluchi
an Iranian language spoken in Pakistan and Iran and Afghanistan and Russia and the Persian gulf
Pahlavi, Pehlevi
the Iranian language of the Zoroastrian literature of the 3rd to 10th centuries
Afghan, Afghani, Pashto, Pashtu, Paxto
an Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan; the official language of Afghanistan
Ossete
a northeastern Iranian language spoken in Russia
Scythian
the Iranian language spoken by the ancient Scythians
Parthian
the Iranian language spoken in the Parthian kingdom (250 BC to AD 226)
Type of:
Indo-Iranian, Indo-Iranian language
the branch of the Indo-European family of languages including the Indic and Iranian language groups
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