Meaning of پهلوی | Babel Free

Definitions

1. the Middle Persian language
2. the Pahlavi scripts, in which Middle Persian was written
3. the New Persian language (emphasizing the language's prestigious history)
   obsolete, poetic
4. A Northwestern Iranian language:
5. the Parthian language; usually پهلوی اشکانی (pahlavi-ye aškâni, “Arsacid Pahlavi”) for disambiguation.
6. alternative form of فهلوی (fahlavi, “medieval NW Iranian vernacular dialects, especially in Jibal and Azarbaijan”)
   alt-of, alternative, obsolete
7. a surname, Pahlavi: the surname of the last shahs of Iran

Equivalents

Examples

“ادبیات پهلوی”

Middle Persian literature

“کلیله به تازی شد از پهلوی بدین سان که اکنون همیبشنوی”

The Kalīla was translated from Middle Persian to Arabic, It is in this way that you hear it [recited] today.

“خط پهلوی”

Pahlavi script

“نبشت او بران نامهٔ خسروی نبود آن زمان خط جز پهلوی”

He wrote an imperial book on it; In those times, there was no script except for Pahlavi.

“مثنوی معنوی مولوی هست قرآن در زبان پهلوی.”

Rumi's Spiritual Masnavi is the Quran in the Persian tongue.

“گر هندیم ولیکن دارم بزور قدرت با پهلوی زبانان دعوی پهلوانی”

Even if I am Indian, I have, by force of talent, A claim to championship among those of Persian tongue.

“مردمش سفیدچهره و ترکوش میباشند و بیشتر بر مذهب حنفی میباشند و زبانشان پهلوی معرب است”

Its people are white-faced and resemble Turks, and most of them are of the Hanafi rite, and their language is an Arabized Northwestern Iranian. (The language described is Old Azeri.)

“رضا شاه پهلوی”

Reza Shah Pahlavi

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