Ababil

English

Etymology

From Arabic أَبَابِيل (ʔabābīl, “tiny birds”), described in the Qur'an as dropping red clay bricks on the army of elephants, sent by the king of Yemen to attack the city of Mecca, in the year (571 AD) when the prophet Muhammad was born.

Proper noun

Ababil

1. (Islam) A race of tiny birds.
2. (military) An Iranian made UAV.

Translations

Bird

• Arabic: اَلطَّيْرُ الأَبَابِيل m (aṭ-ṭayru l-ʔabābīl), أَبَابِيل (ar) m (ʔabābīl)
• Azerbaijani: Əbabil
• Bengali: আবাবীল (bn) (ababil)
• Kyrgyz: Абабийл (Ababiyl)
• Persian: ابابیل (fa) (abâbêl)
• Russian: Абабиль (Ababilʹ)
• Turkish: Ebabil
• Urdu: ابابیل (ur) (abābīl)

References

• (tiny birds) The Rauzat-us-safa: v. 1-2. The life of Muhammad the apostle of Allah