The Padar tribe was mentioned several times by Adam Olearius: The word "Mordov" signifies "fen" and the village derives its name from the fenny places which lie about it, wherein there are many springs, which fend forth their water with such violence, that there is no cold so great as to congeal them.
This Village is inhabited by certain people whom they call Padars, who have their particular language, though with some relation to the Turkish and Persian.
Among others they have this, that they leave their meat after it is dressed, to grow almost cold before they eat it, and if it happen that any one, ignorant of their customs, should blow or breath upon it, they cast it away as impure.
We saw by the way the Sepulchre of one of their Saints named Pyr Shykh Molla Yusuf, and met with party of five and twenty Horsemen well mounted and well arm'd.
They said they were Country people of the adjacent Villages and that they were forc'd to go in strong parties and to travel so arm'd to secure themselves against the Robbers thereabouts but they look'd more like such themselves.