Yerevan

English

Yerevan skyline with Mount Ararat in the background.

Alternative forms

Erevan (obsolete)
Erewan (obsolete)
Erivan (obsolete)

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

Radio Yerevan
Yerevanian

Translations

the capital and largest city of Armenia

Afrikaans: Jerevan
Akan: Eɛrɛwan
Albanian: Jerevan m, Jerevani m (definite)
Amharic: ዬሬቫን (yerevan)
Arabic: يِرِيفَان‎ f (yirīfān)
Aragonese: Erevan
Armenian: Երեւան (hy) (Erewan)
Asturian: Ereván, Yereván
Azerbaijani: İrəvan
Belarusian: Ерэва́н m (Jereván)
Bengali: ইয়েরেভান (iyerebhan)
Breton: Yerevan m
Bulgarian: Ерева́н m (Ereván)
Burmese: ယေရေဗန်မြို့ (yerebanmrui.)
Catalan: Erevan
Chinese:
Mandarin: 埃里溫／埃里温 (zh) (Āilǐwēn) (PRC, HK), 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
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 (Ereban)
Kazakh: Ереван (Erevan)
Khmer: យ៉េរ៉េវ៉ាន់ (km) (yeereevan)
Korean: 예레반 (ko) (Yereban)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: یەریڤان‎ (yerîvan)
Northern Kurdish: Êrîvan (ku), Rewan (ku)
Kyrgyz: Ереван (ky) (Yerevan)
Ladino: Djerevan
Lao: ເຢເຣວານ (yē rē wān)
Latin: Erevanum 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 (Revan)
Pashto: ايريوان‎ m (irewān)
Persian: ایروان‎ (fa) (iravân) (dated), یروان‎ (yerevân)
Piedmontese: Erevan
Polish: Erywań (pl) m
Portuguese: Erevan (pt) m
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) (Erevan)
Tatar: Ереван (Erewan)
Thai: เยเรวาน (yee-ree-waan)
Turkish: Erivan (tr)
Turkmen: Ýerewan
Ukrainian: Єрева́н m (Jereván)
Urdu: یریوان‎ (yerevān)
Uyghur: يېرېۋان‎ (yërëwan)
Venetian: 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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