Pehlevi /pāˈle-vē/ or Pahlavi /päˈlä-vē/

1. An ancient West-Iranian idiom of the Sassanid period (3c–7c AD), largely mixed with Semitic words
2. The characters used in writing it

Spoken or written in Pehlevi

• houseboats
• house-bote
• house-botes
• housebound
• houseboy
• houseboys
• housebreaker
• housebreakers
• housebreaking
• house-broken
• house call
• house calls
• house-carl
• house-carls
• house church
• house churches
• housecoat
• housecoats
• housecraft
• housecrafts
• housed
• house-dog
• house-dogs
• house-duties
• house-duty