Associations to the word «Pahlavi»

PAHLAVI, noun. The principal gold coin of the Pahlavi dynasty (1925-1979).

PAHLAVI, proper noun. A writing system derived from Aramaic script, used to write several Iranian languages.

PAHLAVI, proper noun. A late (9th/10th-century) variant of Middle Persian language/literature when rendered in "Book Pahlavi" (a particular Aramaic-derived script). Contradistinguished from several less well attested variants of Middle Persian and/or the scripts used for them: Pazand (Middle Persian written in Avestan script), 'Parsik' (Middle Persian written in Arabic abjad), Manichaean Middle Persian (in Manichaean script), Inscriptional Middle Persian, and Psalter Pahlavi.

PAHLAVI, proper noun. The name adopted by a 20th-century Iranian dynasty, used in the sense of "ancient".

PAHLAVI, noun. Shah of Iran who was deposed in 1979 by Islamic fundamentalists (1919-1980).

PAHLAVI, noun. The Iranian language of the Zoroastrian literature of the 3rd to 10th centuries.

PAHLAVI, noun. The script (derived from the Aramaic alphabet) used to write the Pahlavi language.