tehran
/tɛˈɹæn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.62 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The capital city of Iran, the seat of Tehran County's Central District and the capital of Tehran Province.
name
The Tehran Conference (1943).
name
The government of Iran.
Example Sentences
- "Three days after the presidential elections, Tehran was in upheaval."
- "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 they just did not expect this level of resistance from Tehran; they did not expect this level of sophistication from Tehran — they just didn’t expect it at all."
Etymology
A diacriticless transliteration of Iranian Persian تِهران (tehrân), from Classical Persian تَهران (tahrān). See there for more.
Word Breakdown
- Root: تَهران