Tehran

The capital city of Iran, the seat of Tehran County's Central District and the capital of Tehran Province.

Proper noun

  1. The capital city of Iran, the seat of Tehran County's Central District and the capital of Tehran Province.
    • Three days after the presidential elections, Tehran was in upheaval. - 2013 June 13, Sune Engel Rasmussen, “After Torture and Persecution, Iranian Activists Work From Inside the U.S.”, in The Atlantic, archived from the...
  2. A county of Iran, around the city.
  3. Tehran Province, one of the 31 provinces in Iran.
  4. The Tehran Conference (1943).
  5. The government of Iran.
    • I want to add one more thing to that: one thing that you will read in all the reporting of the war; all the decision making; all the ways this has turned into a mess for the administration — one thing you’ll see is that...

Origin

A diacriticless transliteration of Iranian Persian تِهران (tehrân), from Classical Persian تَهران (tahrān). See there for more.

Forms

Teheran Tehrân

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Tehran

Derived

Tehrangeles Tehrani Tehranian