Shiraz

Shiraz

See also: shiraz

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian شیراز‎ (širâz).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ʃɚˈɑːz/

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Proper noun

Shiraz

1. A major city in Fars province, in southern Iran, near the remains of Persepolis.

Related terms

• Shirazi

Translations

a city in southern Iran

Arabic: شِيرَاز‎ m (šīrāz) Armenian: Շիրազ (Širaz) Azerbaijani: Cyrillic: Шираз Persic: شیراز‎ Roman: Şiraz Bengali: শিরাজ (śiraz) Bulgarian: Шира́з m (Širáz) Chinese: Mandarin: 設拉子／设拉子 (Shèlāzǐ) Czech: Šíráz m Esperanto: Ŝirazo Finnish: Šīrāz, Shiraz French: Chiraz (fr) m Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Schiraz n Hebrew: שיראז‎ f Japanese: シーラーズ (Shīrāzu) Latvian: Šīrāza f Lithuanian: Širazas Persian: شیراز‎ (fa) (širâz) Polish: Sziraz (pl) m Portuguese: Xiraz f Russian: Шира́з (ru) m (Širáz) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Шираз m Roman: Širaz m Slovak: Širáz m Spanish: Shiraz (es) Swedish: Shiraz Tajik: Шероз (tg) (Šeroz) Turkish: Şiraz (tr) Urdu: شیراز‎ m (śerāz) Uyghur: شىراز‎ (shiraz) Uzbek: Shiroz

Noun

Shiraz (countable and uncountable, plural Shirazes)

1. A variety of black grape used to make wine
2. A wine made from these grapes
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], OCLC 24531354, page 253:

     Miss Arundel.—"And drink his health in Shiraz wine."

Synonyms

• Syrah

Translations

variety of black grape

Catalan: Sirà Chinese: Mandarin: 西拉葡萄 (Xīlā pútáo) Danish: Shiraz, Syrah Dutch: syrah (nl) Finnish: shiraz, syrah French: syrah (fr) German: Syrah (de) Norwegian: Syrah Portuguese: Shiraz, Syrah Romanian: Shiraz, Syrah Russian: Шира́з (ru) m (Širáz) Spanish: Syrah Swedish: Shiraz, Syrah

Anagrams

• Zahirs

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Portuguese

Noun

Shiraz f (uncountable)

1. Shiraz (variety of black grape)

Proper noun

Shiraz f

1. Alternative spelling of Xiraz