pahlavi

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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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

This work, or one very similar, existed in India and in the Sanskrit language as early at least as the 6th century of our era, when it was translated into Pahlavi, the ancient language of Persia, during the reign of Nushīrvān, surnamed the Just (A.D. 531–579). — The Bakhtyār Nāma: A Persian Romance, Unknown

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah Pahlavi, Pahlevi, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi

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