The story
- Norwegian · borrowed fromHandal
- Arabic · borrowed fromحَنْضَل“colocynth”
- English todayHandal
Two main origins: * Borrowed from Arabic حَنْضَل (ḥanḍal, “colocynth”), a dialectal merger of حَنْظَل (ḥanẓal, “colocynth”). This surname is particularly found in Honduras. * Borrowed from Norwegian Handal, a habitational surname from any of several farmsteads in Norway.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.