Baghdad

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Submitted Name

Type Settlement
Usage English, Italian, Malay, Uyghur
Scripts باغداد‎(Uyghur)
Pronounced Pron. bag-DAD(English, Italian)
 BAG-dad(English)
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Meaning & History

From Arabic بغداد (baḡdād), itself from Persian بغداد‎ (baǧdâd), probably from Middle Persian bgdt, meaning "given by god", from Old Persian *Bagadātaʰ. This is the name of the capital city of Iraq.