Pehlevi
Americannoun
noun
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The Introduction of Burzoe stood in the Pehlevi work which Ibn Moqaffa had before him.
From Iranian Influence on Moslem Literature, Part I by G. K. (Gushtaspshah Kaikhushro) Nariman
"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
Persian historians tell of a famous standard carried from the mythical time of Zohâk to that of the last of the Pehlevi kings.
From Persia Revisited by Thomas Edward Gordon
And David's lips are lockt; but in divine High piping Pehlevi, with 'Wine!
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
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
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