Etymology

Compare Parthian ʾpdn(y) ‎(apadan), ʾpdnk(y) ‎(apadanak), Manichaean Parthian ʾpdn, ʾfdn ‎(afdan, “palace”), and borrowings Old Armenian ապարանք ‎(aparankʿ), Jewish Babylonian Aramaic אפדנא, Classical Syriac ܐܦܕܢܐ ‎(ʾāppaḏnāʾ), Hebrew אפדן, Arabic فدن ‎(fadan).