Iranian
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- noun
- /ɪˈrɑːniən/
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iraní
- And this is an Iranian woman packing condoms.
- many Iranians
- most Iranians
- percent of Iranians
Although if you ask ordinary Iranians, they don't like it.
- Although if you ask ordinary Iranians, they don't like it.
- And in doing so he revealed to the Iranians our satellite capabilities.
- It is more the Kurds and less the Iranians.
- Egyptians and Iranians to get together.
- They say that Iraq is the lung for the Iranians and and accord in the economy section.
- You know, they paid us, they paid Iranians rent.
- He's he's on tape talking to these two Iranians about it.
- You the you have the Iranians pushing Hamas to start this war.
- So the US gets rolled, the US place checkers, the Iranians are playing chess.
- So the Iranians were covering all that, all the drugs, Iranians and Israelis.
- How many people will be killed, in this case Iranians?
Examples
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A full 10 percent of Iranians participated in the Islamic Revolution.
Academic text (2011) -
Ahmadinejad's election surprised Iranians almost as much as it surprised the international community.
Academic text (2008) -
Any information that would identify it as Iranian would be removed.
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Are you Iranian, Iranian Jews or just Iranian?
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Then I got involved at the same time with a very high level Iranian opposition group.
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I am American, I am Iranian, I am Israeli, I am Jewish.
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We have the first Iranian American Democrat in Congress.
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How did the Iranian Embassy rescue mission start?
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What about the Iranians?
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Many Iranians celebrate the Persian New Year with special traditions.
Synonyms
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A person from Iran
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A person from Iran who belongs to the country's main group of people
A person who comes from Persia, now called Iran, or whose family came from there
Compounds
- Specialized
A group of languages like Hindi, Urdu, Farsi and Sanskrit from the Indo-European family
- Specialized
A branch of Indo-European languages that includes Sanskrit and Persian
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word Iranian comes from the country name Iran plus the ending -ian, which means 'from' or 'belonging to', as in Canadian. So an Iranian is originally 'a person from Iran'.