بغدان

Arabic

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish بغدان (boğdan, buğdan), from Bogdan I of Moldavia, founder of a dynasty, from Proto-Slavic *Bogъdanъ.

Proper noun

بُغْدَان • (buḡdān) ?

1. (historical) Moldavia, Bogdania (a country in Europe)

Declension

Declension of noun بُغْدَان (buḡdān)

singular	basic singular diptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	—	بُغْدَان buḡdān	—
nominative	—	بُغْدَانُ buḡdānu	—
accusative	—	بُغْدَانَ buḡdāna	—
genitive	—	بُغْدَانَ buḡdāna	—

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• قره بغدان (kara boğdan, kara buğdan)

Etymology

From Bogdan I of Moldavia, founder of a dynasty, from Proto-Slavic *Bogъdanъ.

Noun

بغدان • (boğdan, buğdan)

1. Moldavia, Bogdania

Derived terms

• بغدانلو (boğdanlı, buğdanlı, boğdanlü, buğdanlü, “Moldavian, Bogdanian”)

Descendants

• Turkish: Boğdan
• → Arabic: بُغْدَان (buḡdān)
• → Armenian: Պուղտան (Puġtan)

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بغدان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 851
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “بغدان”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 202