Bulgarian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ابدال (abdal, aptal) (whence Turkish aptal, abdal), from Arabic اَبْدَال (abdāl), plural of بَدَل (badal, a substitute), from بَدَلَ (badala, to replace). Doublet of будала́ (budalá).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ɐbˈdaɫ]
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -aɫ

Noun edit

абда́л (abdálm

  1. (low colloquial) fool, idiot, simpleton
    Synonyms: глупа́к (glupák), глупе́ц (glupéc), тъпа́к (tǎpák), идио́т (idiót), малоу́мник (maloúmnik)

Declension edit

References edit

  • абдал”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
  • абдал”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
  • абдал”, in Български тълковен речник [Bulgarian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), fourth edition, Sofia: Nauka i Izkustvo, 2005, page 15

Macedonian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ابدال (abdal, aptal) (whence Turkish aptal, abdal), from Arabic اَبْدَال (abdāl), plural of بَدَل (badal, a substitute), from بَدَلَ (badala, to replace).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈabdaɫ]
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: аб‧дал

Noun edit

абдал (abdalm (plural абдали, diminutive абдалче, augmentative абдалиште)

  1. fool, idiot, simpleton

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Synonyms edit

References edit

  • Belčev, Tole (2016), “абдал”, in Речник на турцизми, архаизми, дијалектизми и ретко употребувани зборови во македонскиот јазик [Dictionary of Turkisms, Archaisms, Dialectisms and Rarely Used Words in the Macedonian Language] (in Macedonian), Štip: UGD, →ISBN, page 14

Russian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ابدال (abdal, aptal, pauper, Dervish), whence Turkish aptal (idiot); see for more.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

абда́л (abdálm inan (genitive абда́ла, uncountable)

  1. Abdal (a sect of Persian monks)

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Noun edit

абда́л (abdálm anim (genitive абда́ла, nominative plural абда́лы, genitive plural абда́лов)

  1. (dialectal) a fraud, crook
    Synonyms: обма́нщик (obmánščik), оба́им (obáim)

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Serbo-Croatian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ابدال (abdal, aptal) (whence Turkish aptal, abdal), from Arabic اَبْدَال (abdāl), plural of بَدَل (badal, a substitute), from بَدَلَ (badala, to replace).

Noun edit

абдал m (Latin spelling abdal)

  1. fool, idiot
  2. naïf
  3. simpleton

Synonyms edit