Pahlavi Synonyms

pälə-vē, -hlə
Shah of Iran who was deposed in 1979 by Islamic fundamentalists (1919-1980)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. mohammed reza pahlavi
  2. Shah Pahlavi
  3. pahlevi
  4. Mohammed Reza Pahlevi
The Iranian language of the Zoroastrian literature of the 3rd to 10th centuries
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. pehlevi

Words Related to Pahlavi

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. middle-persian
  2. Almohad
  3. fatimid
  4. Qajar
  5. sassanid
  6. umayyad

Pahlavi Sentence Examples

  • The legends are in Aramaic characters and Persian (Pahlavi) language; among them occur Artaxerxes, Darius (from a dynast of this name the town Darabjird, "town of Darius," in eastern Persia seems to derive its name), Narses, Tiridates, Manocihr and others; the name Vahuburz seems to be identical with Oborzos, mentioned by Polyaenus vii.

  • Firdousi's own education eminently qualified him for the gigantic task which he subsequently undertook, for he was profoundly versed in the Arabic language arid 1'itefature and had also studied deeply the Pahlavi or Old Persian, and was conversant with the ancient historical records which existed in that tongue.

  • Firdousi had been always strongly attracted by the ancient Pahlavi records, and had begun at an early age to turn them into Persian epic verse.

  • From a Pahlavi inscription we learn that he was the son (not, as the Greek authors and Tabari say, the grandson) of Shapur I., and succeeded his brother Hormizd (Ormizdas) I., who had only reigned a year.

  • Should the evil and the good be equally balanced, the soul passes into an intermediary stage of existence (the Hamestakans of the Pahlavi books) and its final lot is not decided until the last judgment.

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