پهلوی

Etymology
From, ultimately from.

In the time of the Islamic conquest, Pahlawīg referred specifically to the, as opposed to Pārsīg, literary , and Darīg, the vernacular descendant of Pārsīg which would become. But with the revival of Persian literature in the tenth century, both and  came to refer to the same New Persian language written in Arabic script. As a result, Middle Persian was now also called, which came to mean "pre-Islamic language of Iran". In practice, this usually refers to Middle Persian if without any further specification.

was also affected by this semantic shift, so that by surface analysis, the word is now : the language of the pre-Islamic heroes.

Proper noun

 * 1) the Middle Persian language
 * 2) the Pahlavi scripts, in which Middle Persian was written
 * 3)  the New Persian language (emphasizing the language's prestigious history)
 * 4) A  language:
 * 5) the Parthian language;
 * : the surname of the last shahs of Iran
 * 1)  the New Persian language (emphasizing the language's prestigious history)
 * 2) A  language:
 * 3) the Parthian language;
 * : the surname of the last shahs of Iran
 * 1) A  language:
 * 2) the Parthian language;
 * : the surname of the last shahs of Iran
 * : the surname of the last shahs of Iran
 * : the surname of the last shahs of Iran
 * : the surname of the last shahs of Iran
 * : the surname of the last shahs of Iran

Usage notes

 * Since the existence of Old Persian was unknown in premodern times, medieval sources assume that all pre-Islamic Iranians spoke.

Adjective

 * 1)  ancient, pre-Islamic; of or relating to the age of the Iranian heroes before Islam