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 Edit
Anagrams Edit
Azerbaijani Edit
Cyrillic | абдал | |
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Perso-Arabic | 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 |
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 abdal), from Arabic أَبْدَال (ʔabdāl), plural of بَدَل (badal, “a substitute”), from بَدَلَ (badala, “to replace”).
Noun Edit
abdal m (Cyrillic spelling абдал)
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].
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
When used as a honorific, the term is added after a person’s name, as in ”Pir Sultan Abdal”.
Declension Edit
Synonyms Edit
abdal on the Turkish Wikipedia.Wikipedia tr
References Edit
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890), “ابدال”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 10
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “abdal”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading Edit
- abdal in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu