abdal

From Arabic أَبْدَال‎ (ʾabdāl), 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

abdal m (plural abdais)

1. Alternative form of abdalá

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ابدال‎ (abdal, aptal) (whence Turkish abdal), from Arabic أَبْدَال‎ (ʾabdāl), 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

abdal (definite accusative abdalı, plural abdallar)

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• abdal in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu