ابدال
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Persian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic أَبْدَال (ʔabdāl), plural of بَدَل (badal, “subsitute”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [ʔaβ.ˈdɑːl]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [ʔæb.d̪ɒ́ːl̥]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [ʔäb.d̪ɔ́l]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | aḇdāl |
Dari reading? | abdāl |
Iranian reading? | abdâl |
Tajik reading? | abdol |
Noun
[edit]ابدال • (abdâl)
- plural of بدل (badal)
- (collective, Sufism) saints (often said to be forty) for whose sake God maintains the world
- (collective) hermits, ascetics, Sufis
- (obsolete) vagabond, dervish
- c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 139:
- بکوی خود مرا آشفته دید آن حورپیکر گفت
که این سرگشته بس دیوانه و ابدال میگردد- ba-kō-yi xwad ma-rā āšufta dīd ān hūrpaykar guft
ki īn sargašta bas dēwāna u abdāl mē-gardad - The houri-bodied one saw me distraught in her alley and said:
"This confused person is becoming quite a madman and a vagabond."
- ba-kō-yi xwad ma-rā āšufta dīd ān hūrpaykar guft
Further reading
[edit]- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “ابدال”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim