Explore Iranian through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like persian or irani. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Iranian meaning
- Of or relating to Iran, its people or its culture.
- Pertaining to the Iranian languages or their speakers.
Synonyms of Iranian
Using Iranian
- The main meaning on this page is: Of or relating to Iran, its people or its culture. | Pertaining to the Iranian languages or their speakers.
- Useful related words include: persian, asian country, asian nation, irani.
- In the example corpus, iranian often appears in combinations such as: the iranian, an iranian, of iranian.
Context around Iranian
- Average sentence length in these examples: 31.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 13 start, 7 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Iranian
- In this selection, "iranian" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 31.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, eastern, frozen, western, government, foreign and officials stand out and add context to how "iranian" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a western iranian dialect would, an eastern iranian origin is, iranian foreign, iranian government and iranian officials. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "iranian" sits close to words such as element, gaming and mining, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with iranian
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said two of the Iranian prisoners will stay in the US. (17 words)
My Strange Meeting with the Iranian PresidentCorruption Is the Iranian Regime’s Achilles’ HeelWhat Would the Middle East Look Like Without the Meddlesome Ayatollahs? (24 words)
Iranian Film Festival (IFF) was established to support the Iranian film and culture in the Iranian-American community of the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. (26 words)
Damascus-based Islamic Jihad's chief Ziyad al Nakhla received a call from senior Iranian official Ali Akbar Velayati in which the latter said he supported the "resistance of the Palestinian people, a statement by the Iranian-backed militant group said. (41 words)
On the sidelines of the festival, Iranian artists and war veterans met with the mayor of Hiroshima on the occasion of the anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and presented the statue of Iranian martyr Daryagholi Sourani to the mayor. (41 words)
An Eastern Iranian origin is also suggested by the fact that the Old Persian word dar as a Western-Iranian dialect would be the equal term of Eastern Iranian zar, and Modern Persian uses the Eastern Iranian word for gold. (40 words)
My Strange Meeting with the Iranian PresidentCorruption Is the Iranian Regime’s Achilles’ HeelWhat Would the Middle East Look Like Without the Meddlesome Ayatollahs? (24 words)
Example sentences (20)
An Eastern Iranian origin is also suggested by the fact that the Old Persian word dar as a Western-Iranian dialect would be the equal term of Eastern Iranian zar, and Modern Persian uses the Eastern Iranian word for gold.
Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi has been sentenced to death by an Iranian revolutionary court over songs that criticized the Iranian government, according to his lawyer and state media.
April 17, 2018: In the southeast, across the border in Pakistan (Baluchistan) several Iranian Baluchi separatists based in Pakistan crossed the Iranian border at night and clashed with Iranian border guards.
Iranian Film Festival (IFF) was established to support the Iranian film and culture in the Iranian-American community of the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.
He showed that Armenian often had 2 morphemes for the one concept, and the non-Iranian components yielded a consistent PIE pattern distinct from Iranian, and also demonstrated that the inflectional morphology was different from that in Iranian languages.
At the same time, the future threat of increasingly destructive Iranian cyberattacks remains, particularly against Israel and the United States, as some Iranian groups are likely seeking cyberattack capabilities against industrial control systems.
Brumberg said that despite the UN Special Rapporteur’s designation of the Iranian government’s level of violence as a “crime against humanity,” the regime will continue to tighten its power on Iranian women.
Damascus-based Islamic Jihad's chief Ziyad al Nakhla received a call from senior Iranian official Ali Akbar Velayati in which the latter said he supported the "resistance of the Palestinian people, a statement by the Iranian-backed militant group said.
Earlier, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said that the exchange would take place Monday after nearly $6 billion in once-frozen Iranian assets reached Qatar.
In October last year, the Iranian mission to the UN expatiated on the Iranian position on the Ukraine war in a non-paper to the UN.
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said two of the Iranian prisoners will stay in the US.
Iranian oil exports to China are on the rise, and the Islamic Republic’s relations with Venezuela are moving beyond energy matters, as the South American country recently received 1,000 vehicles from the Iranian automobile firm Saipa.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei this week rejected accusations that Tehran was involved in the unprecedented attack on Israel amid reports in some Western media that Iranian officials had a hand in the plot.
Iran released five American detainees in September in exchange for the release of nearly $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets and two Iranian prisoners who had been jailed in the US.
Last April, the Iranian government said some Taliban officials were present at the Afghan Embassy in Tehran, though Iranian officials said this did not amount to formal recognition, Al-Monitor reported at the time.
My Strange Meeting with the Iranian PresidentCorruption Is the Iranian Regime’s Achilles’ HeelWhat Would the Middle East Look Like Without the Meddlesome Ayatollahs?
Nasr explained that after Iranian Kurds mostly boycotted the 1979 referendum that established the Islamic Republic, many have been seeking safety in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, where they have established political organizations opposing the Iranian regime.
On the sidelines of the festival, Iranian artists and war veterans met with the mayor of Hiroshima on the occasion of the anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and presented the statue of Iranian martyr Daryagholi Sourani to the mayor.
Shortly after Iranian diplomatic missions resumed their work in Jeddah and Riyadh, Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan met with Iranian officials in Tehran.
The deal was facilitated by China, and was followed with calls between Saudi and Iranian foreign ministers as well as an invite to Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi to visit the kingdom.
Phrases with iranian
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with iranian
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the iranian 105×
- an iranian 24×
- of iranian 17×
- iranian foreign 16×
- iranian government 12×
- iranian officials 12×
- iranian regime 12×
- iranian people 12×
- on iranian 10×
- iranian oil 9×