абдал
BulgarianEdit
EtymologyEdit
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”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
абда́л • (abdál) m
- (low colloquial) fool, idiot, simpleton
DeclensionEdit
MacedonianEdit
EtymologyEdit
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”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
абдал • (abdal) m
DeclensionEdit
SynonymsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- 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
RussianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ابدال (abdal, aptal, “pauper, Dervish”), whence Turkish aptal (“idiot”); see for more.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
абда́л • (abdál) m inan (genitive абда́ла, uncountable)
DeclensionEdit
NounEdit
абда́л • (abdál) m anim (genitive абда́ла, nominative plural абда́лы, genitive plural абда́лов)
DeclensionEdit
Serbo-CroatianEdit
EtymologyEdit
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”).
NounEdit
абдал m (Latin spelling abdal)