The story
- Proto-Indo-Iranian*Áryas
- Proto-Iranian*Áryah
- Old Persian𐎠𐎼𐎡𐎹 (a-r-i-y)
- Middle Persian𐭠𐭩𐭫 (ʾyl)
- Middle Persian𐭠𐭩𐭥𐭠𐭭 (ʾyʿʾn)
- Iranian Persianایران (Irân)
- English todayIran
Borrowed from Iranian Persian ایران (Irân), from Classical Persian ایران (ērān), from Middle Persian 𐭠𐭩𐭥𐭠𐭭 (ʾērān, “of the Aryans”), which see for word formation, further etymology and cognates. The name of the political entity is a 3rd-century development that derives from the indigenous ethnolinguistic name of the Iranian peoples, i.e. the great variety of Iranian tribes that spoke an Iranian language. Doublet of Arya and Aryan.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.