abdal

From Arabic أَبْدَال (ʔabdāl), plural of بَدَل (badal, “a substitute; a good, religious man; saint”), from بَدَلَ (badala, “to replace”).

abdal (plural abdals)

1. A religious devotee or dervish in Persia.

• Badal, badla, labda

From Arabic أَبْدَال (ʔabdāl), plural of بَدَل (badal, “a substitute; a good, religious man; saint”), from بَدَلَ (badala, “to replace”).

• IPA^(key): [ɑbˈdɑl]

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• Hyphenation: ab‧dal

abdal (definite accusative abdalı, plural abdallar)

1. an ignorant person, blockhead

   Synonyms: sərsəri, avara, dərbədər

2. (archaic) dervish

   Synonym: dərviş

• “abdal” in Obastan.com.

abdal m (plural abdais)

1. alternative form of abdalá

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ǎbdaːl/

àbdāl m anim (Cyrillic spelling а̀бда̄л)

1. (regional) fool, idiot
2. (regional) naïf, simpleton

• budala
• glupak
• naivčina

• “abdal”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

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.

• IPA^(key): /abˈdal/

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• Hyphenation: ab‧dal

abdal (definite accusative abdalı, plural abdallar)

1. (archaic) A religious devotee in radical Sufism who has attained a high level of spirituality, comparable to a sannyasi in Hinduism

• May be used as a title, in which case it is placed after personal names.

• “abdal”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu