Where does “Irani” come from?
Irani derives from Persian ایرانی, from Persian ایران, from Middle Persian 𐭠𐭩𐭥𐭠𐭭.
Irani (English): relative to Iran and its people; a person from...
Definitions
- relative to Iran and its people; a person from...
Ancestry of “Irani”, step by step
Irani traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Iran
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Iran | The regions inhabited by the Iranian peoples |
| 2 | Persian | ایران | historically Persia |
| 3 | Classical Persian | ایران | — |
| 4 | Middle Persian | 𐭠𐭩𐭥𐭠𐭭 | of the Iranians; of the Aryans; Aryans |
| 5 | Middle Persian | 𐭠𐭩𐭫 | Iranian, i.e. the autonymic self-denominator of... |
| 6 | Old Persian | 𐎠𐎼𐎡𐎹 | Iranian |
| 7 | Proto-Iranian | Áryah | Aryan, Iranian: of or pertaining to the Aryan or... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | Áryas | autonymic ethnonym of the respective... |
via Spanish Irán
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | Irán | Iran |