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Pahlavi

Pahlavi \Pah"la*vi\, Pahlevi \Pah"le*vi\, n.

  1. The language of Sassanian Persia. See Pehlevi.

  2. The script in which the Pahlavi language was written. It was taken from the Aramaic alphabet.

  3. A gold coin formerly used in Iran, equal in value to 20 rials.

Pahlavi

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.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Pahlavi

1773, Iranian language spoken in Persia 3c.-10c., from Persian Pahlavi, from Old Persian Parthava "Parthia" (see Parthian).

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pahlavi

n. The principal gold coin of the (w: Pahlavi dynasty) (1925-1979).

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And according to my invaluable informant Antipater, ten thousand more who survived the first fight further down the Bilechas were rounded up by the Pahlavi Surenas and sent to the frontier of Bactria beyond the Caspian Sea, where they are to be used to keep the Massagetae from raiding.

Parthia was a small nation to the northeast of the Caspian Sea, near Bactria, and was important only because it had produced the seven great Pahlavi families, and the Arsacid Parthian kings.

The Pahlavis wanted it to have an ice cream parlor identical to theirs, right down to the last detail.