Mehrzad

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Mehrzad
Gender Male/ femaile
Origin
Word/name Iranian/Persian
Region of origin Iran (Persia)
Other names
Related names Mihrdat,Mitradat, Mehrdad, Mehrshad

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Mehrzad (Persian: مهرزاد‎‎; is a Persian (Iranian) male and female given name.

'Mehrzad' derives from Middle Persian Mihrdat, a theophoric name meaning "Given by Mehr." 'Mehr' in turn derives from Avestan Mithra, the Zoroastrian divinity and hypostasis of covenant.

'Mehrzad' also means "the son of justice". In Persian language "Mehr" means "Justice" and "Zâd" means Son of.

In present-day Iran, the name Mehrzad is also retroactively applied to several historic figures that appear in western literature as Mithridates, a hellenized or philhellenic form of the Old Iranian name.


Mehrzad is the forename of:

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