Bogdan

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[edit] English

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[edit] Alternative forms

• Bohdan

[edit] Etymology

It was formed from:

• Бог (Bog), “‘God’”), of Scythian/Indo-Iranian origin; its original meaning was riches, abundance, and good fortune, as it was still used in the name of Baghdad and in the Slavic богатъ (bogatŭ), “‘rich’”); however with time it became a title of Mithra and then from there it replaced the Slavic Indo-European name of the celestial God *Deivos (Latin Deus, Sanskrit  (Deva), German Ziu) some time after the split between the Baltic and Slavic languages (as Lithuanian still keeps Dievas).
• дан (dan), “‘gift’”), of Indo-European origins, akin to Latin donum, Greek δῶρον (dōron), Welsh dawn or Irish dán.

There are also some other languages in which we can find names meaning "gift of God", such as Greek (Theodore), Latin (Adeodatus and Deusdedit), Arabic (عطاء الله, Ataullah) and Hebrew (Jonathan and Nathaniel).

[edit] Proper noun

Bogdan

1. A male given name of Slavonic origin meaning "gift of God".

[edit] Translations

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: abdgno
• bandog

[edit] Romanian

[edit] Etymology

From Slavonic Богдан

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [bog'dan]

[edit] Proper noun

Bogdan

1. A male given name.

[edit] See also

• bogdan

[edit] Serbian

Serbian Wikipedia has an article on:

Bogdan

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[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bogъ (“‘god’”) + danъ (participle of Proto-Slavic *dati (“‘to give’”)).^[1]

[edit] Proper noun

Bogdan m. (Cyrillic spelling Богдан)

1. A male given name.

[edit] Declension

[edit] References

• Notes:

1. ^ “Богдан” in Etymolohichnyĭ Slovnyk Ukraïns′koï Movy (Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language), Mel′nychuk, O.S., 1982–2006.