English

Noun

abdal ‎(plural abdals)

1. A religious devotee or dervish in Persia.

Translations

Portuguese

Noun

abdal m (plural abdais)

1. Alternative form of abdalá

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowing from Ottoman Turkish ابدال ‎(abdal, aptal) (whence Turkish abdal), from Arabic أَبْدَال ‎(ʾabdāl), plural of بَدَل ‎(badal, “a substitute”), from بَدَلَ ‎(badala, “to replace”).

Noun

abdal m ‎(Cyrillic spelling абдал)

1. fool, idiot
2. naïf
3. simpleton

Synonyms

• budala
• glupak
• naivčina