ফরহাদ

Bengali

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian فرهاد (farhād), which is from Parthian prht (Frahāt), itself from Old Iranian *Frahāta- (literally “gained, earned”).[1]

Proper noun

ফরহাদ • (phorhad)

  1. a male given name from Persian, equivalent to English Farhad
  2. Farhad (the unrequited lover of the princess Shirin in the medieval romance Khosrow and Shirin)

References

  1. ^ Rüdiger Schmitt, "PERSONAL NAMES, IRANIAN iv. PARTHIAN PERIOD" in Encyclopædia Iranica, July 20, 2005
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