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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”). Doublet of будала́ (budalá).
Pronunciation
Noun
абда́л • (abdál) m
- (low colloquial) fool, idiot, simpleton
- Synonyms: глупа́к (glupák), глупе́ц (glupéc), тъпа́к (tǎpák), идио́т (idiót), малоу́мник (maloúmnik)
Declension
References
- “абдал”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- “абдал”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
- “абдал”, in Български тълковен речник [Bulgarian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), fourth edition, Sofia: Nauka i Izkustvo, 2005, page 15
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
Noun
абдал • (abdal) m (plural абдали, diminutive абдалче, augmentative абдалиште)
- (colloquial) fool, idiot, simpleton
- Synonyms: будала (budala), глупак (glupak), идио́т (idiót), шутрак (šutrak)
Declension
References
- “абдал” in Дигитален речник на македонскиот јазик (Digitalen rečnik na makedonskiot jazik) − drmj.eu
- 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
Noun
абда́л • (abdál) m inan (genitive абда́ла, uncountable)
- Abdal (a sect of Persian monks)
Declension
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абда́л
abdál
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| genitive
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абда́ла
abdála
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| dative
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абда́лу
abdálu
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| accusative
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абда́л
abdál
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| instrumental
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абда́лом
abdálom
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| prepositional
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абда́ле
abdále
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Noun
абда́л • (abdál) m anim (genitive абда́ла, nominative plural абда́лы, genitive plural абда́лов)
- (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)
- fool, idiot
- naïf
- simpleton
Synonyms