Arab authors, realizing the pre-Islamic origins of Baghdad's name, generally looked for its roots in Middle Persian. They suggested various meanings, the most common of which was "bestowed by God". Modern scholars generally tend to favor this etymology, which views the word as a Persian compound of ''bagh'' (25px) "god" and ''dād'' (30px) "given". In Old Persian the first element can be traced to ''boghu'' and is related to Indic ''bhag'' and Slavic ''bog'' "god", A similar term in Middle Persian is the name ''Mithradāt'' (''Mehrdad'' in New Persian), known in English by its borrowed Hellenistic form Mithridates, meaning "Given by Mithra" (''dāt'' is the more archaic form of ''dād'', related to Sanskrit ''dāt'', Latin ''dat'' and English ''donor''), ultimately borrowed from Persian Mehrdad. There are a number of other locations whose names are compounds of the Middle Persian word ''bagh'', including Baghlan and Bagram in Afghanistan, Baghshan in Iran (Persia) itself, and Baghdati in Georgia, which likely share the same etymological Iranic origins.