pahlavism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Certainly, the attempts by the Shah to generate intermediate institutions of legitimation in the post-1960 period were a failure; the Majlis and the parties in it were phantoms, and neither Pahlavism, as a national ideology stressing the pre-Islamic past, nor authoritarian concepts of farmandari or 'commandism' were widely accepted."
- "Like Kemalism in Turkey, Pahlavism in monarchical Iran, and the Third World's postcolonial emancipatory movements, such as Baathism in Syria and Iraq, Heydarism is modernist."
- "Pahlavism professed the importance of the 1906 Constitution but did not advocate the type of free elections characterizing the West's liberal democracies."
Etymology
From Classical Persian پَهْلَو (pahlaw) [the root of Classical Persian پَهْلَوِی (pahlawī), from Middle Persian [Term?] (/pahlaw/), from Old Persian 𐎱𐎼𐎰𐎺 (p-r-θ-v /Parθavaʰ/)] + -ism.