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Pehlevi  n.  (Written also 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.






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"Pehlevi" Quotes from Famous Books



... paradisiacal tradition. Indeed, if Indians vary in opinion as to the nature of the mysterious trees of their earthly paradise of Menu, even generally admitting of four different species, and if the Bundehesh-pehlevi, in bestowing on the tree of Airyana-Vaedja the name of Khembe, appears to have had in view one of the plants placed by Indians on the counterforts of Meru—i.e., the Panelea orientalis, which in Sanscrit is called Kadamba; it is the "white ...
— The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 • Various

... are lockt; but in divine High-piping Pehlevi, with "Wine! Wine! Wine! Red Wine!"—the Nightingale cries to the Rose That yellow ...
— Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Salaman and Absal • Omar Khayyam and Ralph Waldo Emerson



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