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Noun: Pahlavi  'paa-lu`vee
  1. The script (derived from the Aramaic alphabet) used to write the Pahlavi language
     
  2. Shah of Iran who was deposed in 1979 by Islamic fundamentalists (1919-1980)
    - Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah Pahlavi, Pahlevi, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi
     
  3. The Iranian language of the Zoroastrian literature of the 3rd to 10th centuries
    - Pehlevi

Type of: Iranian, Iranian language, script, Shah, Shah of Iran

Encyclopedia: Pahlavi Pahlavi, Alireza Pahlavi, Reza