Definition of Pahlevi

1. Noun. Shah of Iran who was deposed in 1979 by Islamic fundamentalists (1919-1980).


Definition of Pahlevi

1. n. Same as Pehlevi.

Definition of Pahlevi

1. Proper noun. (alternative form of Pehlevi) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pahlevi

Pagnolesque
Pago Pago
Pagophila
Pagophila eburnea
Pagophilus
Pagophilus groenlandicus
Pagrus
Pagrus pagrus
Paguridae
Pagurus
PahA dioxygenase
Pahang
Pahari
Paharis
Pahlavi
Pahlevi
Pahvant Valley fever
Pahvant Valley plague
Paige
Pain
Paine
Paint
Paint Horse
Paint Horses
Painted Desert
Paints
Paisley
Paiute
Paiwan
Paiwanic

Literary usage of Pahlevi

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"... HIM Mohammed R pahlevi, bam Oct. »6, 1910; ... 1041 (on abdication of his father Reza SI pahlevi); married (March 15. 1930). ..."

2. The Metropolitan (1831)
"phonology and philology of the several languages Sanscrit, Zend, and pahlevi, therefore these interesting branches of literary research and inquiry must be ..."

3. Travels in Luristan and Arabistan by C. A. De Bode (1845)
"competent judge in these matters, is of opinion that there exists some analogy with the pahlevi alphabet. I take the liberty of transcribing a passage of a ..."

4. Ten Thousand Miles in Persia: Or, Eight Years in Irán by Percy Molesworth Sykes (1902)
"... in connection with whom a curious legend is recounted in the pahlevi ... According to the pahlevi work, " the army of ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Small and often unintelligible fragments in pahlevi and in Sog- dian(?) have recently been found in Chinese Turkestan by TWK Mueller The " Epístola ..."

6. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1900)
"Pers. sanan, women ; pi. of zan, a woman, which is cognate with E. Queen. Zend,an ancient Persian dialect. (Zend.) Properly the translation into the pahlevi ..."

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