Arabic

Root

ب د ل ‎(b-d-l)

1. Related to changing or exchanging
2. Related to pain in the joints

Derived terms

Verbs:

• Form I: بَدَلَ ‎(badala, “to replace, exchange”)
  • Verbal noun: بَدْل ‎(badl, “replacement, exchange”)
  • Active participle: بَادِل ‎(bādil)
  • Passive participle: مَبْدُول ‎(mabdūl)
• Form II: بَدَّلَ ‎(baddala, “to change, alter, exchange, substitute, replace”)
  • Verbal noun: تَبْدِيل ‎(tabdīl, “change, alteration, exchange, substitution, replacement, transposition, compensation”)
  • Active participle: مُبَدِّل ‎(mubaddil)
  • Passive participle: مُبَدَّل ‎(mubaddal)
• Form III: بَادَلَ ‎(bādala, “to exchange with (someone)”)
  • Verbal noun: مُبَادَلَة ‎(mubādala, “exchange”), بِدَال ‎(bidāl, “exchange”)
  • Active participle: مُبَادِل ‎(mubādil)
  • Passive participle: مُبَادَل ‎(mubādal)
• Form IV: أَبْدَلَ ‎(ʾabdala, “to exchange, substitute, replace”)
  • Verbal noun: إِبْدَال ‎(ʾibdāl, “exchange, substitution, replacement”)
  • Active participle: مُبْدِل ‎(mubdil)
  • Passive participle: مُبْدَل ‎(mubdal)
• Form V: تَبَدَّلَ ‎(tabaddala, “to take in exchange for, be exchanged, be altered”)
  • Verbal noun: تَبَدُّل ‎(tabaddul, “taking in exchange, being exchanged, being altered, holiday clothes, permutation”)
  • Active participle: مُتَبَدِّل ‎(mutabaddil)
  • Passive participle: مُتَبَدَّل ‎(mutabaddal)
• Form VI: تَبَادَلَ ‎(tabādala, “to mutually exchange, interchange, (intransitive) alternate, take turns”)
  • Verbal noun: تَبَادُل ‎(tabādul, “mutual exchange, exchange, interchange, alternation, taking turns, permutation, transposition, reciprocity”)
  • Active participle: مُتَبَادِل ‎(mutabādil)
  • Passive participle: مُتَبَادَل ‎(mutabādal, “mutual, reciprocal”)
• Form VII: اِنْبَدَلَ ‎(inbadala, “to be interchanged”)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْبِدَال ‎(inbidāl, “being interchanged”)
  • Active participle: مُنْبَدِل ‎(munbadil)
• Form X: اِسْتَبْدَلَ ‎(istabdala, “to take in exchange for”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِبْدَال ‎(istibdāl, “taking in exchange”)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَبْدِل ‎(mustabdil)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَبْدَل ‎(mustabdal, “(sports) reserve player”)

References

• “ب د ل” in Edward William Lane (1863), Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “ب د ل”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “ب د ل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, ISBN 0-87950-003-4