Pehlevi
Americannoun
noun
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Why it is so called by the Pehlevi translators, we are nowhere told by themselves, and many conjectures have, in consequence, been started by almost every Zend scholar.
From Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
From this Greek, it was translated into all the known languages of Europe, while the Pehlevi version being rendered into Arabic, was adapted by the Mussulmans and the Jews to their own creeds.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Henry Yule
But it is not the character which forms the peculiar mark of Pehlevi.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Max Duncker
"He also translated from Pehlevi the book entitled Sekiserán, containing the annals of Isfandiyar, the death of Rustam, and other episodes of old Persic history," says Al-Mas'udi chapt. xxi.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
From Ardeshir down to Narses, i. e. from 226 to 302 A.D., the writing on the coins agrees with the West Pehlevi of the monuments of the Sassanids.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Max Duncker
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