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): [ɑbˈdɑɫ]

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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 abdal), from Arabic أَبْدَال (ʔabdāl), plural of بَدَل (badal, “a substitute”), from بَدَلَ (badala, “to replace”).

abdal m (Cyrillic spelling абдал)

1. fool, idiot
2. naïf
3. simpleton

• budala
• glupak
• naivčina

• “abdal” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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]

• IPA^(key): /abˈdaɫ/

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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)

When used as an honorific, the term is added after a person’s name, as in ”Pir Sultan Abdal”.

• baba
• derviş

  abdal on the Turkish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^tr

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