Pahlavist

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noun

An expert in Pahlavi.

OriginClassical Persian پَهْلَو ← Middle Persian [Term?] ← Old Persian 𐎱𐎼𐎰𐎺 →
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Meanings

nounPahlavist (plural Pahlavists)

plural Pahlavists

  1. An expert in Pahlavi.

    Let us close by wishing for the veteran Pahlavist a long career yet in the interests of science.

    1888, C. de Harlez, “DR. E. WEST ON THE PAHLAVI LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE”, in The Babylonian and Oriental Record, page 268
  2. A supporter of the Pahlavi dynasty.
adjective
  1. Relating to or supporting the Pahlavi dynasty or Pahlavism.

    […] the Pahlavist strategy […]

    1999, Islamic Studies, volume 38, page 297
    2 more examples

    […] the Pahlavist ideologues […]

    2010, Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran

    But the Pahlavist idea of globalization differed from that propagated by the capitalist West under the slogan of liberal cosmopolitanism, and from the Soviet one, coined international proletarianism.

    2019, Zhand Shakibi, Pahlavi Iran and the Politics of Occidentalism, page 150

Origin

  1. Old Persian𐎱𐎼𐎰𐎺
  2. Middle Persian[Term?]
  3. Classical Persianپَهْلَو
  4. EnglishPahlavist

From Classical Persian پَهْلَو (pahlaw) [the root of Classical Persian پَهْلَوِی (pahlawī), from Middle Persian [Term?] (/⁠pahlaw⁠/), from Old Persian 𐎱𐎼𐎰𐎺 (p-r-θ-v /⁠Parθavaʰ⁠/)] + -ist.

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Translations

French pahlaviste, pahlaviste
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