Morpheme
Baghdad
Type
free base
Denotation
capital city of Iraq
Etymology
Arabic baḡdād; Classical Persian baġdād; Middle Persian bgdt; Old Persian *Bagadātah, from BG + d-a-t
Evidence
Baghdad, Baghdadi, Baghdadian
Notes
<d> does not double because the stress falls on the first syllable
orthographic convention of <gh> to represent [ɣ] in [baɣ.daːd]
Baghdad and Bhagadatta are doublets
