Old Persian

Proper noun

𐏎𐎭𐎠𐎫 ‎(Bagadāta) m

1. A male given name

Descendants

(taking Old Persian as representative for all Old Iranian):

• Middle Persian: 𐭡𐭢𐭣𐭲 ‎(bgdt), 𐭡𐭢𐭣𐭠𐭲𐭩 ‎(bgdʾty /Baydād/)
• Parthian: 𐭁𐭂𐭃𐭕 ‎(Bagdāt)
  • → Old Armenian: Բագարատ ‎(Bagarat), Բագրատ ‎(Bagrat)
    • → Arabic: بقراط ‎(Buqrāṭ)
    • → Georgian: ბაგრატი ‎(bagraṭi)
      • → Ossetian: Баграт ‎(Bagrat)
• → Akkadian: [script needed] ‎(Ba-ga-da-a-tú)
• → Ancient Greek: Βαγαδάτες ‎(Bagadátes), Μαγαδάτες ‎(Magadátes) (possibly from a Proto-Armenian form)
• → Aramaic: [script needed] ‎(bgdt)
• → Egyptian: [Demotic needed] ‎(Pgtt)
• → Old Armenian: Բագադիա ‎(Bagadia)

References

• Justi, Ferdinand (1895), “Bagadāta”, in Iranisches Namenbuch (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 57a
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1986), “Some Names from Nisa”, in Peredneaziatskij sbornik. IV. Drevnjaja i srednevekovaja istorija i filologija stran Perednevo i Srednevo Vostoka, Moscow: Nauka, page 108
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1973) Onomastica Persepolitana: Das Altiranische Namengut der Persepolis-Täfelchen (in German), Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, § 8.192, page 135
• Ačaṙyan, Hračʿya (1942), “Բագարատ”, in Hayocʿ anjnanunneri baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Personal Names] (Erewani petakan hamalsaran. Gitakan ašxatutʿyunner; 21) (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 355