Freydun (given name)
Freydun (Persian: فریدون - Freydun; from the Avestan Θraētaona), is an Iranian masculine given name.
Freydun, Feridun, Faridun, or Afridun may refer to:
- Freydun, an Iranian mythical king and hero
- Fereydun Khan Cherkes (died 1620/21), Safavid official and military commander
- Fereydoon Mirza (1810–1855), the 5th son of Abbas Mirza, then crown prince of Persia
- Fereydun Robert "Fred" Armisen, (born 1966), American comedian and actor
- Freydun Atturaya (1891–1926), Assyrian physician
- Fereydoon Batmanghelidj (1931–2004), Iranian medical doctor; best known for his book, Your Body's Many Cries for Water
- Fereydoon Motamed (1917–1993), internationally known professor and linguist
- Fereydun Adamiyat (1920–2008), Iranian historian
- Fereydoon Hoveyda (1924–2006), influential Iranian diplomat, writer and thinker
- Fereydoon Moshiri (1926–2000), contemporary Persian poet
- Fereydoon Farrokhzad (1936–1992), Persian singer, actor, poet, TV and Radio host, writer, and political opposition figure
- Fereydun Gole (1942–2005), Iranian screenwriter
- Fereydoon Family (born 1945), leading Persian physicist in the field of nanotechnology and solid-state physics
- Hassan Fereydun (born 1948), birth name of Hassan Rouhani, the 7th President of Iran
- Feridun Sinirlioğlu (born 1956), Turkish diplomat and civil servant
- Fereydoon Davatchi, director of the Rheumatology Research Center (RRC) in the Tehran University of Medical sciences
- Faridun Muhiddinov, Tajikistani engineer and politician
- Feridun Zaimoğlu (born 1964), German author and visual artist of Turkish origin
- Feridun Düzağaç (born 1968), Turkish singer
- Fereydoon Fazli (born 1971), Iranian football player
- Ferydoon Zandi (born 1979), Iranian football midfielder
Etymology
All of the forms of the name shown above derive, by regular sound laws, from Proto-Iranian Thraetaona (Θraētaona) and Proto-Indo-Iranian Traitaunas.
Traitaunas is a derivative (with augmentative suffix -una/-auna) of Tritas, the name of a deity or hero reflected in the Vedic Trita and the Avestan Thrita (Θrita). Both names are identical to the adjective meaning "the third", a term used of a minor deity associated with two other deities to form a triad. In the Indian Vedas, Trita is associated with gods of thunder and wind.
Trita is also called Aptya (Āptya), a name that is probably cognate with Athwiya (Āθβiya), the name of father of Thraetaona in the Avestā. Traitaunas may therefore be interpreted as "the great son of the deity Tritas". The name was borrowed from Parthian into Armenian as Hrudēn.