Mashhad
/mæʃˈhæd/(亦作Meshed)
- a city in NE Iran, close to the border with Turkmenistan; pop. 2,427,316 (2006). The burial place in AD 809 of the Abbasid caliph Harun ar-Rashid and in 818 of the Shiite leader Ali ar-Rida, it is a holy city of the Shiite Muslims. It is the secondlargest city in Iran.马什哈德（伊朗东北部城市, 近土库曼斯坦边界; 2006年人口2,427,316; 公元809年, 阿巴斯王朝的哈里发·哈伦·阿拉什德葬于此地; 公元818年, 什叶派领袖阿里·阿里达也被安葬在此, 是什叶派穆斯林的圣城; 伊朗第二大城市）。