Mehrdad

Mehrdād (Persian: مهرداد‎, pronounced [mehɾdɒːd] (listen)) is a common Persian male given name in Iran and other Persian speaking countries. Mehr (مهر) means "sun" or "love" and Dād (داد) means "given". So the literal meaning of Mehrdād (مهرداد) is given by sun or given by love.

Mehrdad
PronunciationPersian: [mehɾdɒːd]
GenderMale
Origin
Word/namePersian
Meaninggiven by Mehr
Region of originIran
Other names
Related namesMithridates

Mehrdad is a historical Persian name that derives from Middle Persian Mihrdāt (Old Persian Miθradāta), a theophoric name meaning 'given by Mehr'. Mehr is an alternative name for Mithra, a 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 Mehrdad.

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