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]
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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
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