абдал

Bulgarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ابدال (abdal, aptal) (whence Turkish aptal, abdal), from Arabic اَبْدَال (abdāl), plural of بَدَل (badal, a substitute), from بَدَلَ (badala, to replace).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɐbˈdaɫ]

Noun

абда́л (abdál) m

  1. (low colloquial) fool, idiot, simpleton
    Synonyms: глупак (glupak), глупец (glupec), тъпак (tǎpak), идиот (idiot), малоумник (maloumnik)

Declension

Macedonian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ابدال (abdal, aptal) (whence Turkish aptal, abdal), from Arabic اَبْدَال (abdāl), plural of بَدَل (badal, a substitute), from بَدَلَ (badala, to replace).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈabdaɫ]
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: аб‧дал

Noun

абдал (abdal) m (plural абдали, diminutive абдалче, augmentative абдалиште)

  1. fool, idiot

Declension

Synonyms

References

  • Belčev, Tole (2016), абдал”, in Речник на турцизми, архаизми, дијалектизми и ретко употребувани зборови во македонскиот јазик [Dictionary of Turkisms, Archaisms, Dialectisms and Rarely Used Words in the Macedonian Language] (in Macedonian), Štip: UGD, →ISBN, page 14

Russian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ابدال (abdal, aptal, pauper, Dervish), whence Turkish aptal (idiot); see for more.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɐbˈdaɫ]

Noun

абда́л (abdál) m inan (genitive абда́ла, uncountable)

  1. Abdal (a sect of Persian monks)

Declension

Noun

абда́л (abdál) m anim (genitive абда́ла, nominative plural абда́лы, genitive plural абда́лов)

  1. (dialectal) a fraud, crook
    Synonyms: обма́нщик (obmánščik), оба́им (obáim)

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ابدال (abdal, aptal) (whence Turkish aptal, abdal), from Arabic اَبْدَال (abdāl), plural of بَدَل (badal, a substitute), from بَدَلَ (badala, to replace).

Noun

абдал m (Latin spelling abdal)

  1. fool, idiot
  2. naïf
  3. simpleton

Synonyms

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