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pehlevi

pehlevi is the alternative form of pahlavi.

Meaning of pahlavi

Noun

pahlavi (plural pahlavis)

  1. (historical) The principal gold coin of the Pahlavi dynasty (1925–1979).

See all 7 meanings of pahlavi

Proper noun capitalized: Pehlevi

Pehlevi

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Pahlavi.
    • And David's Lips are lock't; but in divine
      High piping Péhlevi, with "Wine! Wine! Wine!
      Red Wine!" — the Nightingale cries to the Rose
      That yellow Cheek of her's to'incarnadine.1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 2

Forms of pehlevi

pluralpehlevis

Questions about pehlevi

What is pehlevi the alternative form of?
Pehlevi is the alternative form of pahlavi.
What part of speech is pehlevi?
Pehlevi is a proper noun.

Words near pehlevi in the dictionary

  1. pehelwan
  2. pehelwans
  3. Pehl
  4. pehlevan
  5. pehlevans
  6. pehlevi
  7. pehlevis
  8. pehlivan
  9. pehlivans
  10. Pehls
  11. Pehlvi

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pehlevi (page history and authors); Pehlevi (page history and authors); pahlavi (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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