ویران

Borrowed from Classical Persian ویران (virân, “ruined; desolate”). Doublet of اورن (ören)

• IPA^(key): /viːˈrɑːn/
• Hyphenation: وی‧ران

ویران • (vīrān)

1. ruined, devasted, desolated

   Synonyms: خراب (ḫerāb), اورن (ören)

   • 14th Century, Edhem bin Ḥıfẓu'llah bin Ḥasan eṭ-Ṭavīl el-Baġdādī, Tebâreke Tefsiri:

     [...] بر خراب كویه ارشدی • كوردی كه دیوارلری یقلمش اولری ویران اولمش

     bir ḫerāb koya ẹrişdi. gördi ki dīvārları yıqılmış, ẹvleri vīrān olmış

     he reached a ruined village. He saw that its walls are ruined, its houses have been desolated

2. (of a building) abandoned, deserted

• Azerbaijani: viran
• Ottoman Turkish: ویران (viran)
  • Turkish: viran
  • → Macedonian: фиран (firan)
  • → Romanian: viran

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “viran”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish ویران (vīrān), from Classical Persian ویران (virân, “ruined; desolate”).

ویران • (viran)

1. ruined, devasted, desolated

   Synonyms: خراب (harab), یباب (yebab), ییقق (yıkık)

2. (of a building) abandoned, deserted

• Turkish: viran
• → Macedonian: фиран (firan)
• → Romanian: viran

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾwylʾn' /⁠awērān⁠/). Cognate with Parthian 𐭀𐭅𐭉𐭓𐭍 (ʾwyrn, “ruin, destruction”) and akin to Old Armenian աւեր (awer), աւերանք (awerankʻ), աւերակ (awerak).

ویران • (virân)

1. ruined
   • 1210–1292, Saadi Shirazi, Gulistan, chapter 6, story 1;[5] Persian proverb:

     خانه از پای بند ویران است
     خواجه در بند نقش ایوان است

     xāna az pāy-band wayrān ast
     xwāja dar band-i naqš-i aywān ast

     The house is ruined from the foundation
     Khajah is bounded by the design on the iwan

2. desolate
3. gloomy

• → Middle Bengali: অইরান (oiran)
  • Bengali: বিরান (biran)
• → Gujarati: વીરાન (vīrān), વેરાન (verān)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: वीरान (vīrān)

  Urdu: ویران (vīrān)

• → Old Anatolian Turkish: ویران (vīrān)
  • Azerbaijani: viran
  • Ottoman Turkish: ویران (viran)
    • Turkish: viran
    • → Macedonian: фиран (firan)
    • → Romanian: viran
• → Punjabi: ویران (vīrān)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “աւեր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 359–360
• Gignoux, Philippe (1972) Glossaire des Inscriptions Pehlevies et Parthes [Glossary of Pahlavi and Parthians Inscriptions] (Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum. Supplementary Series; 1) (in French), London: Lund Humphries, page 48b
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, pages 112, 511
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 14

Borrowed from Classical Persian ویران (wīrān).

• IPA^(key): /ʋiː.ɾaː.nə̆/

ویران • (vīrān) (Gurmukhi spelling ਵੀਰਾਨ)

1. ruin
2. desolation

• ویرانی (vīrānī, “ruined, desolate, gloomy”)

Borrowed from Classical Persian ویران (wīrān).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʋiː.ɾɑːn/
• Rhymes: -ɑːn
• Hyphenation: وِی‧ران

وِیران • (vīrān) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling वीरान)

1. deserted, desolate
2. (figurative) gloomy

• (solitude): ویرانی (vīrānī)

• “ویران”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “ویران”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.