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English Dictionary: Pahlavi by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Pahlavi
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Pahlavi
n
  1. Shah of Iran who was deposed in 1979 by Islamic fundamentalists (1919-1980)
    Synonym(s): Pahlavi, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah Pahlavi, Pahlevi, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi
  2. the Iranian language of the Zoroastrian literature of the 3rd to 10th centuries
    Synonym(s): Pahlavi, Pehlevi
  3. the script (derived from the Aramaic alphabet) used to write the Pahlavi language
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pehlevi \Peh"le*vi`\, n. [Parsee Pahlavi.]
      An ancient Persian dialect in which words were partly
      represented by their Semitic equivalents. It was in use from
      the 3d century (and perhaps earlier) to the middle of the 7th
      century, and later in religious writings. [Written also
      {Pahlavi}.]
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