My Web of Words - 9 - Baghdad

I intended to devote this post to 'baldachin', a word that originated in Baghdad. But I changed my mind because it is the city itself - and its name - that interests me. That name, so familiar to us today, has a long history that goes well beyond that of a rarely used word such as 'baldachin'.

This last word is a vestige of a bygone time, a touching literary relic. It survives in a number of languages - baldaquin in French, baldachin in German, baldaquino in Spanish and Portuguese, baldakin