English
Etymology
unreferenced
It was formed from:
"bog" - meaning "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 bogatÅ (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").
"dan" - "gift", of Indo-European origins, akin to Latin "donum", Greek "dorus", 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 (Ataullah) and Hebrew (Jonathan and Nathaniel).
Proper noun
Bogdan (or �огдан)
- given name|male of Slavic origin meaning "gift of God".
Translations
trans-top|Male given name
Bulgarian: �огдан
Czech: Bohdan
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Romanian: #Romanian|Bogdan
Russian: �огдан
Ukrainian: �огдан
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Romanian
Etymology
From Sla.|ro �огдан
Pronunciation
IPA|[bog'dan]|lang=ro
Proper noun
Bogdan
- #English|Bogdan, a male given name
See also
bogdan
Category:ro:Male given names
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