Banisadr, who returned to Iran with the founder of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Khomeini after the downfall of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in 1979, was elected with the support of his mentor Khomeini in 1980.
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Ayatollah
//aɪ.əˈtoʊl.ə//
Synonyms for "ayatollah" (1 found)
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Closest matches (1)
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Translations
43 translations across 41 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- ajatollah noun (a religious leader)
Arabic
1 entries- آيَةُ اللّٰه noun (a religious leader)
Armenian
1 entries- այաթոլլա noun (a religious leader)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- ayətullah noun (a religious leader)
Bengali
1 entries- আয়াতুল্লাহ noun (a religious leader)
Bulgarian
1 entries- аятола́х noun (a religious leader)
Catalan
1 entries- aiatol·là noun (a religious leader)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 阿亞圖拉 /阿亚图拉 noun (a religious leader)
Czech
1 entries- ajatolláh noun (a religious leader)
Danish
1 entries- ayatollah noun (a religious leader)
Dutch
1 entries- ayatollah noun (a religious leader)
Esperanto
1 entries- ajatolo noun (a religious leader)
Finnish
1 entries- ajatollah noun (a religious leader)
French
1 entries- ayatollah noun (a religious leader)
Georgian
1 entries- აიათოლა noun (a religious leader)
German
1 entries- Ajatollah noun (a religious leader)
Greek
1 entries- αγιατολάχ noun (a religious leader)
Hebrew
1 entries- אייתוללה noun (a religious leader)
Hindi
1 entries- आयतुल्लाह noun (a religious leader)
Hungarian
1 entries- ajatollah noun (a religious leader)
Indonesian
1 entries- ayatullah noun (a religious leader)
Iranian Persian
2 entries- آیَةُاللّٰه noun (a religious leader)
- آیَتُالله noun (a religious leader)
Italian
1 entries- ayatollah noun (a religious leader)
Japanese
1 entries- アヤトラ noun (a religious leader)
Kazakh
1 entries- аятолла noun (a religious leader)
Korean
1 entries- 아야톨라 noun (a religious leader)
Malay
1 entries- ayatollah noun (a religious leader)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- آیَتُاللّٰه noun (a religious leader)
Polish
1 entries- ajatollah noun (a religious leader)
Portuguese
1 entries- aiatolá noun (a religious leader)
Russian
1 entries- аятолла́ noun (a religious leader)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- ajatolah noun (a religious leader)
- ајатолах noun (a religious leader)
Spanish
1 entries- ayatolá noun (a religious leader)
Swedish
1 entries- ayatolla noun (a religious leader)
Tajik
1 entries- оятуллоҳ noun (a religious leader)
Thai
1 entries- อายะตุลลอหฺ noun (a religious leader)
Turkish
1 entries- ayetullah noun (a religious leader)
Ukrainian
1 entries- аятола́ noun (a religious leader)
Urdu
1 entries- آیَتُ ٱللہ noun (a religious leader)
Uyghur
1 entries- ئايەتۇللا noun (a religious leader)
Uzbek
1 entries- oyatulloh noun (a religious leader)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
"Explain how words can be violence." "The Ayatollah wrote down some words saying Salman Rushdie must be killed, and then he was shot."
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Tom met the Ayatollah.
Source: tatoeba (12051053)
P.S. This writer does NOT speak as the Ayatollah of SM. (There isn't one.) If you really want to know more, talk to sadomasochists, or at least do some reading if you're too scared to ask.
Source: wiktionary
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