abdal
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Arabic أَبْدَال (ʔabdāl), plural of بَدَل (badal, “a substitute; a good, religious man; saint”), from بَدَلَ (badala, “to replace”).
Noun
[edit]abdal (plural abdals)
Translations
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[edit]Azerbaijani
[edit]Cyrillic | абдал | |
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Abjad | آبدال |
Etymology
[edit]From Arabic أَبْدَال (ʔabdāl), plural of بَدَل (badal, “a substitute; a good, religious man; saint”), from بَدَلَ (badala, “to replace”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]abdal (definite accusative abdalı, plural abdallar)
Declension
[edit]Declension of abdal | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
nominative | abdal |
abdallar | ||||||
definite accusative | abdalı |
abdalları | ||||||
dative | abdala |
abdallara | ||||||
locative | abdalda |
abdallarda | ||||||
ablative | abdaldan |
abdallardan | ||||||
definite genitive | abdalın |
abdalların |
Further reading
[edit]- “abdal” in Obastan.com.
Portuguese
[edit]Noun
[edit]abdal m (plural abdais)
- Alternative form of abdalá
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ابدال (abdal, aptal) (whence Turkish aptal), from Arabic أَبْدَال (ʔabdāl), plural of بَدَل (badal, “a substitute”), from بَدَلَ (badala, “to replace”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]àbdāl m (Cyrillic spelling а̀бда̄л)
Synonyms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “abdal” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ابدال (abdal, “a kind of heedless, disinterested, good-natured man, who takes no care for the morrow”),[1] from Arabic أَبْدَال (ʔabdāl, “compensations, beggar, careless man”), from بَدَل (badal).[2] Compare aptal (“dumb, stupid”), also from the same root.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]abdal (definite accusative abdalı, plural abdallar)
- (archaic) A religious devotee in radical Sufism who has attained a high level of spirituality, comparable to a sannyasi in Hinduism
Usage notes
[edit]- May be used as a title, in which case it is placed after personal names.
Declension
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ابدال”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 10
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “abdal”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
[edit]- “abdal”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
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