Pehlevi
Americannoun
noun
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According to the Parsis, Avesta means sacred text, Zend its Pehlevi translation.
From Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
Lane considered that the one hundred and fifteen stories, which are common to all manuscripts, are based on the Pehlevi original.
From A Study of Fairy Tales by Kready, Laura F.
Pehlevi is old Persian, and to pen lavi is Rommany all the world over “to speak words.”
From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Leland, Charles Godfrey
The authorities accordingly had a translation of it made in the speech of the time, Pehlevi.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
This was translated from the Hebrew, from the Arabic of the eighth century, from the Pehlevi of Persia of the sixth century, from the Panchatantra, from the Sanskrit original.
From A Study of Fairy Tales by Kready, Laura F.
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