IRANIAN

Pronunciation (US):

• IRANIAN (noun)
  The noun IRANIAN has 2 senses:

1. a native or inhabitant of Iran
2. the modern Persian language spoken in Iran

  Familiarity information: IRANIAN used as a noun is rare.

• IRANIAN (adjective)
  The adjective IRANIAN has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to Iran or its people or language or culture

  Familiarity information: IRANIAN used as an adjective is very rare.

• IRANIAN (noun)

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of Iran

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Irani; Iranian; Persian

Context example:

the majority of Irani are Persian Shiite Muslims

Hypernyms ("Iranian" is a kind of...):

Asian; Asiatic (a native or inhabitant of Asia)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Iranian"):

Farsi (a person of Iranian descent)

Instance hyponyms:

Artaxerxes; Artaxerxes I (king of Persia who sanctioned the practice of Judaism in Jerusalem (?-424 BC))

Artaxerxes; Artaxerxes II (king of Persia who subdued numerous revolutions and made peace with Sparta (?-359 BC))

Holonyms ("Iranian" is a member of...):

Iran; Islamic Republic of Iran; Persia (a theocratic Islamic republic in the Middle East in western Asia; Iran was the core of the ancient empire that was known as Persia until 1935; rich in oil)

Meaning:

The modern Persian language spoken in Iran

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Iranian language; Iranian

Hypernyms ("Iranian" is a kind of...):

Indo-Iranian; Indo-Iranian language (the branch of the Indo-European family of languages including the Indic and Iranian language groups)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Iranian"):

Avestan; Zend (an ancient Iranian language)

Scythian (the Iranian language spoken by the ancient Scythians)

Ossete (a northeastern Iranian language spoken in Russia)

Afghan; Afghani; Pashto; Pashtu; Paxto (an Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan; the official language of Afghanistan)

Pahlavi (the Iranian language of the Zoroastrian literature of the 3rd to 10th centuries)

Balochi; Baluchi (an Iranian language spoken in Pakistan and Iran and Afghanistan and Russia and the Persian gulf)

Kurdish (an Iranian language spoken in Turkey and Iran and Iraq and Syria and Russia)

Tadzhik; Tajik; Tajiki (the Iranian language of the Tajik that is closely related to Farsi; spoken in Iran and Tajikistan)

Dari; Dari Persian (an Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan)

Farsi; Persian (the language of Persia (Iran) in any of its ancient forms)

Gathic (an ancient Iranian language)

• IRANIAN (adjective)

Meaning:

Of or relating to Iran or its people or language or culture

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

Iranian; Persian

Context examples:

Iranian mountains / Iranian security police

Pertainym:

Iran (a theocratic Islamic republic in the Middle East in western Asia; Iran was the core of the ancient empire that was known as Persia until 1935; rich in oil)