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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Iranian

Iranian \I*ra"ni*an\, a. Of or pertaining to Iran. -- n. A native of Iran; also, the Iranian or Persian language, a division of the Aryan family of languages, the modern version of which is called Farsi.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Iranian

1841 (adj.); 1873 (n.), from Iran + -ian.

Wikipedia
Iranian

Iranian is of, from, or related to the nation of Iran ( Persia).

  • Iranian who is a person from the nation of Iran, or of Iranian descent. For more information about the people of Iran see also Demographics of Iran
    • Iranian diaspora
    • For specific persons, see List of Iranians
  • Iranian peoples, an ethnic and linguistic branch of Indo-European peoples, living mainly in Iranian plateau and beyond in central-, southern-, and southwestern Asia as well as the Caucasus
  • One of the Iranian languages. See also Languages of Iran
  • Iranian.com, also known as The Iranian and The Iranian Times

Usage examples of "iranian".

Iraqi intelligence sources reported that Iranian forces in Khuzestan, which had formerly included two divisions distributed among Ahvaz, Dezful, and Abadan, now consisted of only a number of ill-equipped battalion-sized formations.

Shias from the Iranian province of Daylam south of the Caspian Sea, the Buwayhids continued to permit Sunni Abbasid caliphs to ascend to the throne.

The flow of Iranians into Iraq, which began during the rein of the Achaemenids, initiated an important demographic trend that would continue intermittently throughout much of Iraqi history.

Another important effect of Iranian rule was the disappearance of the Mesopotamian languages and the widespread use of Aramaic, the official language of the empire.

Iranian border near the Kazakhistan city of Ashkhabad and the Afghanistan city of Herat.

So we are equally despised by the Iraqis, the Iranians, the Chinese, Russians, Kazakhs, Armenians, Azeris, and so on.

Iraq launched 330 Scud-Bs and 203 al-Husseins against Iranian cities during the Iran-Iraq War and 88 al-Husseins at Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain during the Gulf War.

On some empty Iranian or Baluchi beach, they would rendezvous at dawn with the receivers, off-load their cargo of cheap cigarettes and take on board, surprisingly angora goats so valued in Oman.

She did reveal the whereabouts of a low-level Middle Eastern black marketer named Al Basrah, after the Iranian city of the same name.

It was all about the Channel tunnel and a landscape awash in Eurotrash, and French fashion victims, and acid rain, and lugubrious Belgians, and Iranian language students, and lager louts swilling Heineken, and football hooligans, and holes in the ozone layer, and Italian playboys, and South American drug lords, and Swiss banks, and AmEx Goldcards, and the greenhouse effect, and the Age of Inconsequence, and soon and so forth.

Israelis claim Grozny sold the Iranians sickle missiles with nuclear warheads when he helped negotiate the 2007 Middle East Peace Accord.

Nothing to reveal that Raymond Kerman was really Ravi Rashood, born Iranian from the southeast of that country.

Today the Mandaean religion is, frankly, a hopelessly confused hotchpotch: various fragments of Old Testament Judaism, heretical Gnostic forms of Christianity and Iranian dualist beliefs are all mixed into their cosmology and theology.

Thus, before the Iran-Iraq War, Iraq had little information regarding developments in Tehran, the mood of the country, or the operational status of the armed forces and instead relied on the misinformation of former Iranian generals who had fled the Islamic Revolution and desperately wanted Iraq to attack to try to restore them to power.

I slipped a supply of Iranian rials out of their hiding place, grabbed Mahtob, and quietly left the house.