IRANIAN LANGUAGE

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Iranian language mean? 

• IRANIAN LANGUAGE (noun)
  The noun IRANIAN LANGUAGE has 1 sense:

1. the modern Persian language spoken in Iran

  Familiarity information: IRANIAN LANGUAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IRANIAN LANGUAGE (noun)

Meaning:

The modern Persian language spoken in Iran

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Iranian language; Iranian

Hypernyms ("Iranian language" 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 language"):

Avestan; Zend (an ancient Iranian language)

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)

Scythian (the Iranian language spoken by the ancient Scythians)