Fahlavīyāt
Sign in to saveFahlaviyat (), also spelled fahlavi (), was a designation for poetry composed in the local northwestern Iranian dialects and languages of the Fahla region, which comprised Isfahan, Ray, Hamadan, Mah Nahavand, and Azerbaijan, corresponding to the ancient region of Media. Fahlaviyat is an Arabicized form of the Persian word Pahlavi, which originally meant Parthian, but now came to mean "heroic, old, ancient." According to the historians Siavash Lornejad and Ali Doostzadeh, the Fahlaviyat used in Azerbaijan was called Old Azeri.
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- Author
- ʻAlīʹmardān ʻAsgarī ʻĀlam
- First published
- 2003
- Editions
- 1
- Subjects
- Persian language, Dialects, Persian Dialect poetry
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Fahlaviyat (), also spelled fahlavi (), was a designation for poetry composed in the local northwestern Iranian dialects and languages of the Fahla region, which comprised Isfahan, Ray, Hamadan, Mah Nahavand, and Azerbaijan, corresponding to the ancient region of Media. Fahlaviyat is an Arabicized form of the Persian word Pahlavi, which originally meant Parthian, but now came to mean "heroic, old, ancient." According to the historians Siavash Lornejad and Ali Doostzadeh, the Fahlaviyat used in Azerbaijan was called Old Azeri.
In some texts, Fahlaviyat has been called '''Awraman' as well. This is because these poems were sung to melodies known as Awraman or ōrāmanān, which appears to be linked to the name of the Avroman region in Kurdistan.
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