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 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/
• 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 a honorific, the term is added after a person’s name, as in ”Pir Sultan Abdal”.

• baba
• derviş

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• abdal in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu