Abdullah

See also: Abdu'llah

English

Alternative forms

• Abdulah
• Abdalah, Abdallah
• Abd Allah, Abd' Ulah
• Abdu'llah

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَبْدُ ٱللّٰه (ʕabdu llāh, “servant of God”), from عَبْد (ʕabd, “servant”) + اللّٰه (allāh, “God”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æbˈdʌlə/, /ˌɑb.dʊlˈɑ/
• Rhymes: -ʊlə

Proper noun

Abdullah

1. A male given name from Arabic.
2. A surname from Arabic

Usage notes

• A common Islamic name that is favored because it indicates servitude and humility before God. According to a hadith, "The most beloved of your names to Allah, the Mighty and Magnificent, are ‘Abdullah’ and ‘Abdur-Rahman’ (servant of the Most Merciful)". The name was also a favorite of the prophet Muhammad.
• Not the same name as Abdul.

Translations

Muslim given name

• Afrikaans: Abdoella
• Albanian: Abdullah
• Amharic: አብዱላህ (ʾäbdulah)
• Arabic: عَبْدُ ٱللّٰه (ar) m (ʕabdu llāh)
• Armenian: Աբդուլա (Abdula), Աբդուլլահ (Abdullah)
• Azerbaijani: Əbdullah
• Bashkir: Ғабдулла (Ğabdulla), Абдулла (Abdulla)
• Bulgarian: Абдуллах (Abdullah), Абдулла (Abdulla)
• Burmese: အဗ္ဗဒူလာ (abba.dula)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿卜杜拉 (zh) (Ābǔdùlā)

• Czech: Abdulláh
• Danish: Abdullah
• Dutch: Abdoella
• Finnish: Abdullah
• French: Abdullah (fr) m, Abdallah (fr), Abdoullah
• Georgian: აბდულა (abdula)
• German: Abdulla m
• Greek: Αμπντουλάχ (el) (Ampntoulách), Αμπντουλλάχ (el) (Ampntoullách)
• Gujarati: અબ્દુલ્લા (abdullā)
• Hausa: Abdullahi
• Hebrew: עבדאללה
• Hindi: अब्दुल्ला m (abdullā), अब्दुल्लाह m (abdullāh)
• Hungarian: Abdullah
• Igbo: Abdullah
• Indonesian: Abdullah
• Irish: Abdullah
• Italian: Abdullah
• Japanese: アブドラ (Abudora)
• Kannada: ಅಬ್ದುಲ್ಲಾ (abdullā)
• Kazakh: Абдуллаһ (Abdullah), Қабдула (Qabdula), Қабдулла (Qabdulla)
• Khmer: អាប់ឌុលឡា (ʼapdullaa)
• Korean: 압둘라 (Apdulla)
• Kyrgyz: Абдулла (Abdulla)
• Lao: ອັບ​ດຸນ​ລາ (ʼap dun lā)
• Macedonian: Абдуллах m (Abdullah)
• Malagasy: Abdullah
• Malay: Abdullah (ms)
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• Malayalam: അബ്ദുള്ള (abduḷḷa)
• Mandinka: Abdoulie
• Marathi: अब्दुल्ला m (abdullā)
• Mongolian: Абдулла (Abdulla)
• Nepali: अब्दुल्लाह (abdullāha), अब्दुल्ला (abdullā)
• Norwegian: Abdullah (no)
• Oriya: ଅବଦୁଲ୍ଲା (ôbôdulla)
• Oromo: Abdullah
• Pashto: عبدالله ('abdullah)
• Persian: عبدالله (fa) ('abdollâh)
• Polish: Abdullah (pl) m
• Portuguese: Abdala, Abdula m
• Punjabi: ਅਬਦੁੱਲਾ (abadullā)
• Russian: Абдулла́ (ru) m (Abdullá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: Abdullah m, Abdulah m

• Sindhi: عبدالله ('abdullah)
• Sinhalese: අබ්දුල්ලා (abdullā)
• Slovak: Abdulláh
• Slovene: Abdullah
• Somali: Cabdille, Cabdilaahi
• Spanish: Abdullah, Abdullá
• Swahili: Abdullah
• Swedish: Abdullah (sv)
• Tagalog: Abdullah
• Tajik: Абдуллоҳ (Abdulloh)
• Tatar: Габдулла (Ğabdulla), Абдулла (Abdulla)
• Telugu: అబ్దుల్లా (abdullā)
• Thai: อับดุลลาห์ (àp-dul-laa), อับดุลเลาะห์ (àp-dul-lɔ́)
• Turkish: Abdullah (tr), Aptullah
• Urdu: عبد اللہ ('abdu llāh)
• Uyghur: ئابدۇللا (ug) (abdulla)
• Uzbek: Abdulloh
• Vietnamese: Abdullah
• Welsh: Abdullah
• Wolof: Abdoullaye
• Yiddish: אַבדאַללאַ m (abdalla)

See also

• Abdul, Abdel

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Abdullah is the 4,272^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 8,314 individuals. Abdullah is most common among Black (51.36%), White (24.40%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (13.74%) individuals.

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Proper noun

Abdullah

1. a male given name from Arabic