Mehrdad

Mehrdad
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Persian
Meaning	Gift of Mehr
Region of origin	Iran (Persia)
Other names
Related names	Mihrdat, Mitradat, Mert, Mithad

Mehrdâd (Persian: مهرداد‎; [mɛhrdɑːd] ) is a common Persian male given name in Iran, and other Iranic Peoples.

Mehrdad is also a historical Persian name that derives from Middle Persian Mithridates, a theophoric name meaning "Given by Mehr." 'Mehr' in turn derives from Avestan Mithra, the Zoroastrian divinity and hypostasis of covenant. In present-day Iran, the name Mehrdad is also retroactively applied to several historic figures that appear in western literature as Mithridates, a hellenized or philhellenic form of the Old Iranian name.

References

Schmitt, Rüdiger (1970), "Die theophoren Eigennamen mit altiranisch *Miθra-", Acta Iranica, 17: 395–455

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