pehlevi – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Pehlevi
n.
Iranian language used from the 3rd to 10th centuries (Indo-European language); alphabet used to write Pahlavi
n.
Pahlavi, Iranian royal family
Pahlavi
Pahlavi may refer to:
Language and writing
- Pahlavi scripts, or Pahlavi writing system, as adopted to render various Middle Iranian languages
- Pahlavi literature, Persian literature of the 1st millennium AD
- Pahlavi Psalter, a 12-page non-contiguous section of a Middle Persian translation of a Syriac book of psalms
- Middle Persian written in the Pahlavi script (including Zoroastrian Middle Persian of the 9th-11th century)
- Middle Persian name of the Parthian language and speakers of it
- Northwestern Iranian languages during the classic Islamic period: Oramani, Tati and the dialects of Ray and Hamedan (see Fahlaviyat)
Pehlevi
(n.)
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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Pahlavi
Pahlavi (Persian) [from Old Persian parthawa Parthian] Also Pehlevi. The language into which the Zoroastrian archaic sacred books were translated. It was due to this that the Pahlavi literature was preserved, for, other than these religious books, very few works are extant, principally the Minoi-Khiradh and the Bundahish. It is also called Middle Persian, in contradistinction to New Persian and Old Persian, the language of the ancient Persians during the time of Darius the Great which already shows distinct changes from that in which the Avesta was written. Pahlavi was the language of the northeastern people of Iran (Parthians) who ruled over the country soon after the downfall of Ach Achaemenids until 224 AD under the name of Arsacids. For about nine centuries this remained the language of the whole empire. Pahlavi belongs to the Iranian class of the southern division of Aryan languages.
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