Aladdin
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Etymology edit
From Arabic عَلَاءُ الدِّين (ʕalāʔu d-dīn, “nobility of the faith”).
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Proper noun edit
Aladdin
- (obsolete or archaic)
- Alternative form of Alauddin
- 1876, Edward Augustus Freeman, The History and Conquests of the Saracens: Six Lectures Delivered Before the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution:
- Aladdin, of the former dynasty [Khilji], subdued nearly all the Deccan, about 1312; [...]
- Alternative form of Alaeddin
- Alternative form of Alauddin
- An Arabic tale about a young man named Aladdin who is recruited by a sorcerer to get a magic lamp from a cave; often adapted into comic pantomime in Britain
- The young man who is the protagonist and title character of the story
Derived terms edit
- (3): Aladdin's cave
Translations edit
the Arabic tale
the fictional young man
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Aladdin m
- Alternative spelling of Aladim