PAHLAVI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pahlavi mean? 

• PAHLAVI (noun)
  The noun PAHLAVI has 3 senses:

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

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

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

  Familiarity information: PAHLAVI used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAHLAVI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi; Mohammed Reza Pahlevi; Pahlavi; Pahlevi; Shah Pahlavi

Instance hypernyms:

Shah; Shah of Iran (title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Pahlavi; Pehlevi

Hypernyms ("Pahlavi" is a kind of...):

Iranian; Iranian language (the modern Persian language spoken in Iran)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Pahlavi"):

Parthian (the Iranian language spoken in the Parthian kingdom (250 BC to AD 226))

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Pahlavi" is a kind of...):

script (a particular orthography or writing system)