Meaning

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

noun the Iranian language of the Zoroastrian literature of the 3rd to 10th centuries

noun the script (derived from the Aramaic alphabet) used to write the Pahlavi language

originFrom Iranian Persian پَهْلَوی (pahlavi), from Classical Persian پَهْلَوِی (pahlawī, “Parthian, of or relating to the age of the Iranian heroes before Islam”), from پَهْلَو (pahlaw) + ـِی (-ī).

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