Isfahan

See also: İsfahan

English

Alternative forms

• Esfahan, Ispahan

Etymology

Ultimately derived from Classical Persian اِصْفَهَان (isfahān), from Old Persian *spādānah (“army, adj.”) or *spādānām (“of the armies”), from 𐎿𐎱𐎠𐎭 (spādaʰ, “army”), from Proto-Iranian *cwáHdaH (“army”), q.v.

Proper noun

Isfahan

2. The third largest city of Iran, and former capital of Iran (1598–1736).
4. Isfahan Province, one of 31 provinces in Iran.

Related terms

• Isfahani

Translations

third largest city of Iran

• Arabic: أَصْفَهَان f (ʔaṣfahān), إِصْفَهَان f (ʔiṣfahān)
• Armenian: Սպահան (Spahan)

  Old Armenian: Ասպահան (Aspahan)

• Azerbaijani: İsfahan
• Bashkir: Исфаһан (İsfahan)
• Belarusian: Ісфаха́н m (Isfaxán)
• Bengali: ইস্ফহান (iśphohan), ইস্পাহান (iśpahan)
• Bulgarian: Исфаха́н m (Isfahán)
• Chechen: Исфахан (İsfaxan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 伊斯法罕 (zh) (Yīsīfǎhǎn)

• Czech: Isfahán
• Danish: Isfahan n
• Dutch: Isfahan n
• Finnish: Isfahan
• French: Ispahan (fr) m
• Georgian: ისპაანი (isṗaani)
• German: Isfahan (de) n
• Greek: Ισφαχάν (el) f (Isfachán)
• Hebrew: אֶסְפָהָאן (he) f (esfahan)
• Hindi: इस्फ़हान m (isfahān)
• Hungarian: Iszfahán (hu)
• Indonesian: Isfahan
• Irish: Isfahan
• Italian: Esfahan
• Japanese: イスファハン (Isufahan)
• Kazakh: Исфаһан (İsfahan)
• Korean: 이스파한 (Iseupahan)
• Kyrgyz: Исфахан (İsfahan)
• Latvian: Isfahāna
• Lithuanian: Isfahanas
• Malay: Isfahan
• Marathi: इस्फहान n (isphahān)
• Mazanderani: اصفهون
• Ossetian: Исфахан (Isfaxan)
• Ottoman Turkish: اصفهان (İsfahān)
• Pashto: اصفهان m (esfahān)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: اِصْفَهان (esfahân), اِسْپَهان (espahân), سِپاهان (sepâhân)

• Portuguese: Isfahan f, Ispahan f, Esfahan f
• Russian: Исфаха́н (ru) m (Isfaxán)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Исфахан m

  Roman: Isfahan (sh) m

• Sindhi: اصفھان
• Spanish: Isfahán (es), Ispahán (es)
• Tajik: Исфаҳон (tg) (Isfahon)
• Tatar: Исфәһан (İsfähan)
• Thai: เอสแฟฮอน
• Turkish: İsfahan
• Turkmen: Yspyhan
• Ukrainian: Ісфаха́н m (Isfaxán)
• Urdu: اِصْفَہَان m (isfahān)
• Uyghur: ئىسپاھان (ispahan)
• Uzbek: Isfahon

See also

• (provinces of Iran) Alborz, Ardabil, Bushehr, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, East Azerbaijan, Isfahan, Fars, Gilan, Golestan, Hamadan, Hormozgan, Ilam, Kerman, Kermanshah, Khuzestan, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Kurdistan, Lorestan, Markazi, Mazandaran, North Khorasan, Qazvin, Qom, Razavi Khorasan, Semnan, Sistan and Baluchestan, South Khorasan, Tehran, West Azerbaijan, Yazd, Zanjan ^{(Category: en:Provinces of Iran)}

Anagrams

• Hanafis, faanish

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Ispahan, Esfahan, Ispaã, Ispaão
• Ispahã, Ispahão, Ispaan, Isfahã, Isfaã, Isfaão (rare)

Proper noun

Isfahan f

1. Isfahan (a city in Iran)