Pah·la·vi /ˈpælə(ˌ)vi, ˈpɑ-/



 Pah·la·vi, Pah·le·vi n.
 1. The language of Sassanian Persia.  See Pehlevi.

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 Peh·le·vi n.  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.]

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 Pahlavi
      n 1: Shah of Iran who was deposed in 1979 by Islamic
           fundamentalists (1919-1980) [syn: Mohammed Reza Pahlavi,
            Shah Palavi, Pahlevi, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi]
      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