Farhad Explained

Farhad (فرهاد)
Pronunciation:	fæɾˈhɒːd
Gender:	Male
Language:	Persian origin, also used in Turkic languages
Origin:	Iranian
Variant Forms:	Phraates, Ferhad, Ferhat, Farkhad, Farrad, Forhad

Farhad (Persian: فرهاد farhād), also spelt Ferhaad, Ferhod or Ferhat, is a common Persian name for men used since the Parthians, first recorded for Arsacid kings circa 170 BC. Variants of the name are also commonly found in other countries with historical Iranian influences such as Bangladesh, Iraq, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and the Xinjiang autonomous region of China.

Etymology

Modern Persian name Farhād (Persian: فرهاد) is derived from Middle Persian Frahād (in prht Frahāt; in Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Φραάτης Phraatēs), ultimately from Old Iranian *fra-hāta- "merited, obtained".^{[1] [2]}

Places

• Farhad, Nishapur – a village in Nishapur County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
• Farhād Tarāsh – a rockface on Mount Behistun, Iran
• Farkhad Dam - hydroelectric plant at Tajikistan/Uzbekistan border

Literature

• Farhad (Persian literature)

People with the given name Farhad

• Farhad I Phraates I of Parthia c. 176 - 171 BC
• Farhad II Phraates II of Parthia c. 138 - 127 BC
• Farhad III Phraates III of Parthia c. 70 - 57 BC
• Farhad IV Phraates IV of Parthia c. 38 - 2 BC
• Farhad V Phraates V of Parthia (Phraataces) c. 2 BC - AD 4
• Farkhad Akhmedov, Russian businessman of Azerbaijani origin
• Farhad Aliyev, Azerbaijani politician
• Farhad Ahmed Kanchan, Bangladeshi politician and freedom fighter
• Farhad Badalbeyli, Azerbaijani pianist and composer
• Farkhat Bazarov, Russian footballer
• Farhad Daftary, Ismaili scholar
• Farhad Darya, Afghan singer
• Farhad Fakhreddini, Iranian composer
• Farhad Hossain, Bangladeshi cricketer
• Farhad Hossain, Bangladeshi academic and politician
• Farhad Kazemi, Iranian football manager
• Farhad Khan, Mughal faujdar of Sylhet and Chittagong
• Farhad Khoiee-Abbasi, public protester in Chicago
• Farkhad Magametov, Uzbek footballer
• Farhad Majidi, Iranian footballer
• Farhad Manjoo, American journalist and author
• Farhad Mazhar, Bangladeshi poet
• Farhad Mehrad, Iranian singer
• Farhad Moshiri, British-Iranian businessman
• Farhad Rahbar, Iranian politician
• Farhad Veliyev, Azerbaijani footballer
• Farhad Reza, Bangladeshi cricketer
• Farhad Shetul, Bangladeshi hockey player
• Bodruddoza Md. Farhad Hossain, Bangladeshi politician
• Md. Forhad Hossain, Bangladeshi academic and vice-chancellor

People with the surname Farhad

• Ariful Kabir Farhad, Bangladeshi professional footballer
• Kamilla Farhad, Azerbaijani tennis player
• Maria Farhad, Iraqi beauty pageant winner
• Md. Mazbauddin Farhad, Bangladesh politician
• Mohamed Farhad, Maldivian singer
• Mohammad Farhad, Bangladesh politician
• Massumeh Farhad, American curator and art historian
• Sayed Farhad, Kuwaiti judoka
• Zafrul Hasan Farhad, Bangladeshi politician

See also

• Shirin Farhad, disambiguation page
• Phraates, the name of 5 kings in the Arsacid Empire
• Aphrahat, 3rd-century Syriac Christian monk and ascetic

Notes and References

1. Web site: PERSONAL NAMES, IRANIAN iv. PARTHIAN PERIOD – Encyclopaedia Iranica . www.iranicaonline.org . 11 September 2019.
2. Hübschmann, Armenische Grammatik. D. N. MacKenzie, “Some Names from Nisa,” in Peredneaziatskiĭ sbornik IV: Drevnyaya isrednevekovaya istoriya i filologiya stran perednego i srednego vostoka, Moscow, 1986, pp. 105–15 (reprinted in Idem, Iranica diversa, ed. C. G. Cereti and L. Paul, Rome, 1999, pp. 209–15).