Irāna

Etymology
Via some other European language, ultimately from, from , from 🇨🇬, genitive plural of (as in 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, Ossetic ). Compare 🇨🇬. The came to refer to the lands in which Iranians lived during the late 3rd to early 4th centuries. Prior to that time it was an ethnic, not geographic, term used for the Iranian peoples.