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pahlavi
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pahlavi has 3 senses
- pahlavi(n = noun.person) mohammed reza pahlavi, mohammed reza pahlevi, pahlevi, shah pahlavi - Shah of Iran who was deposed in 1979 by Islamic fundamentalists (1919-1980); Array is a kind of shah, shah of iran
- pahlavi(n = noun.communication) pehlevi - the Iranian language of the Zoroastrian literature of the 3rd to 10th centuries; Array is a kind of iranian, iranian language
- pahlavi(n = noun.communication) Array - the script (derived from the Aramaic alphabet) used to write the Pahlavi language; Array is a kind of script
has particulars: parthian
CIDE DICTIONARY
pahlavi, n.
- The language of Sassanian Persia. See Pehlevi. [1913 Webster]
- The script in which the Pahlavi language was written. It was taken from the Aramaic alphabet. [PJC]
- A gold coin formerly used in Iran, equal in value to 20 rials. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
pahlavi, n. (also Pehlevi) the writing system of Persia from the 2nd c. BC to the advent of Islam in the 7th c. AD.
Etymology
Pers. pahlawi f. pahlav f. parthava Parthia
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