Bogdan
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English
Etymology
It was formed from:, 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 ; 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 , Sanskrit , German ) some time after the split between the Baltic and Slavic languages (as Lithuanian still keeps )., of Indo-European origins, akin to Latin , Greek , Welsh or Irish .
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 and Hebrew (Jonathan and Nathaniel).
Proper noun
- of origin meaning "gift of God".
Etymology
From + danъ (participle of ).