Asian vs Iranian

Iranian vs Asian

Asian and Iranian both are nouns.

Asian and Iranian both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Asian	Yes	Yes	No	No
Iranian	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, Iranian is a hyponym of Asian; that is, Iranian is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than Asian:

Asian: a native or inhabitant of Asia
Iranian: a native or inhabitant of Iran

Other hyponyms of Asian include coolie, cooly, Evenki, Ewenki, Mongol, Mongolian, Indian, Eurasian, Afghan, Afghanistani, Altaic, Armenian, Bangladeshi, Bengali, Bhutanese, Bhutani, Burmese, Byzantine, Cambodian, Kampuchean, Chinese, East Indian, Malay, Malayan, Hindoo, Hindu, Hindustani, Hmong, Miao, Indonesian, Irani, Persian, Iraki, Iraqi, Israelite, Israeli, Japanese, Nipponese, Jordanian, Korean, Kurd, Kuwaiti, Lao, Laotian, Lebanese, Malaysian, Maldivan, Maldivian, Nepalese, Nepali, Pakistani, Parthian, Singhalese, Sinhalese, Sherpa, Syrian, Taiwanese, Tadzhik, Tajik, Siamese, Tai, Thai, Tibetan, Turki, Kazakhstani, Annamese, Vietnamese, Singaporean, Sri Lankan, Dardan, Dardanian, Trojan, Iberian, Mongoloid, Timorese, oriental person.

Asian (noun)	Iranian (noun)
a native or inhabitant of Asia	the modern Persian language spoken in Iran
	a native or inhabitant of Iran

Asian (adjective)	Iranian (adjective)
of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture	of or relating to Iran or its people or language or culture

Difference between Asian and Iranian

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