English
Etymology
Borrowed from Armenian Երեւան (Erewan).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌjeɹəˈvæːn/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌjeɹəˈvɑːn/
- (Armenian) IPA(key): /jɛɾɛˈvɑn/
Proper noun
Yerevan
- The capital and largest city of Armenia.
1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 99:Before long Abbas Mirza suffered a succession of defeats, which culminated in the capture of Erivan, today capital of Armenia.
2009 September 26, Geoff Garvey, The Guardian:Crammed to the gills with history, it nestles in the shadow of Mount Ararat and has a medieval centre but it's Yerevan's religious heritage that is its main claim to fame.
Derived terms
Translations
the capital and largest city of Armenia
- Afrikaans: Jerewan
- Akan: Eɛrɛwan
- Albanian: Jerevan m, Jerevani m (definite)
- Amharic: ዬሬቫን (yerevan)
- Arabic: يِرِيفَان f (yirīfān)
- Aragonese: Erevan
- Armenian: Երեւան (hy) (Erewan)
- Asturian: Yereván (ast)
- Azerbaijani:
- Abjad: ایروان (irævān)
- Roman: İrəvan, Yerevan
- Belarusian: Ерэва́н m (Jereván)
- Bengali: ইয়েরেভান (iẏerebhan)
- Breton: Yerevan m
- Bulgarian: Ерева́н m (Ereván)
- Burmese: ယေရေဗန်မြို့ (yerebanmrui.)
- Catalan: Erevan
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 埃里溫 / 埃里温 (zh) (Āilǐwēn) (mainland China, Hong Kong), 葉里溫 / 叶里温 (zh) (Yèlǐwēn) (Taiwan)
- Chuvash: Ереван (Erevan)
- Crimean Tatar: Erivan
- Czech: Jerevan (cs) m
- Danish: Jerevan n
- Dutch: Jerevan n
- Esperanto: Erevano (eo)
- Estonian: Jerevan (et)
- Farefare: Yɛrɛvan
- Faroese: Jerevan m
- Finnish: Jerevan (fi)
- Franco-Provençal: Yèrèvan
- French: Erevan (fr) m
- Gagauz: Erivan
- Galician: Iereván (gl)
- Georgian: ერევანი (ka) (erevani)
- German: Eriwan (de) n
- Greek: Γιερεβάν (el) n (Giereván)
- Haitian Creole: Erevàn
- Hebrew: ירוואן \ יֶרֶוָן f (yerevan)
- Hindi: येरवान (yervān), येरेवान m (yerevān)
- Hungarian: Jereván (hu)
- Icelandic: Jerevan
- Indonesian: Yerevan
- Irish: Eireaván m
- Italian: Yerevan m
- Japanese: エレバン (ja) (Ereban)
- Kazakh: Ереван (Erevan)
- Khmer: យ៉េរ៉េវ៉ាន់ (km) (yeereevan)
- Korean: 예레반 (ko) (Yereban)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: یەریڤان (ckb) (yerîvan)
- Northern Kurdish: Êrîvan (ku), Rewan (ku)
- Kyrgyz: Ереван (ky) (Yerevan)
- Ladino: Djerevan
- Lao: ເຢເຣວານ (yē rn)
- Latin: Erevanum n, Erivānum n
- Latvian: Erevāna f
- Ligurian: Erevan
- Lithuanian: Jerevanas m
- Macedonian: Ереван m (Erevan)
- Malay: Yerevan
- Marathi: येरेवान (yerevān)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: Ереван (Jerevan)
- Navajo: Yéwewan
- Norwegian: Jerevan (no)
- Occitan: Erevan
- Ottoman Turkish: روان (revân, rivân), اریوان (erîvân), اروان (erivân), روانقلعه (revânqale)
- Pashto: ايريوان m (irewān)
- Persian: ایروان (fa) (iravân) (dated), یروان (yerevân)
- Piedmontese: Erevan
- Polish: Erywań (pl) m
- Portuguese: Erevã (pt)
- Quechua: Yiriwan
- Romanian: Erevan (ro)
- Russian: Ерева́н (ru) m (Jereván)
- Sanskrit: येरेवान (yerevāna)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Јереван m, Ѐрева̄н m
- Roman: Jerevan m, Èrevān (sh) m
- Slovak: Jerevan m
- Slovene: Erevan m
- Sorbian:
- Upper: Jerewan
- Spanish: Ereván (es) m
- Swahili: Yerevan
- Swedish: Jerevan (sv) n
- Tajik: Ереван (tg) (Yerevan)
- Tatar: Ереван (Yerewan)
- Thai: เยเรวาน (yee-ree-waan)
- Turkish: Erivan (tr), Revan
- Turkmen: Ýerewan
- Ukrainian: Єрева́н (uk) m (Jereván)
- Urdu: یریوان (yerevān)
- Uyghur: يېرېۋان (yërëwan)
- Venetan: Èrevan
- Vietnamese: Ê-rê-van
- Volapük: Yerevan
- Welsh: Yerevan
- West Frisian: Jerevan
- Yakut: Ереван (YErevan)
- Yiddish: יערעוואַן n (yerevan)
- Zazaki: Yerêvan (Southern Zazaki)
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