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Gender Masculine
Usage Old Persian (Hellenized)
Scripts Φερενδάτης(Ancient Greek)
Other Forms FormsFarnahdātah (Old Persian), Pharandates (Ancient Greek), Farandatis (Greek)
Meaning & History
From Ancient Greek Φερενδάτης (Pherendā́tēs), a Hellenized form of Old Persian Farnahdātah, from Old Persian *farnāh "glory" and 𐎭𐎠𐎫 (d-a-t) "given, created". This was the name of an Achaemenid satrap of ancient Egypt in the early 5th century BCE, at the time of the Achaemenid 27th Dynasty of Egypt.