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- Arabic · borrowed fromإِبَاضِيّ
- English todayIbadi
Borrowed from Arabic إِبَاضِيّ (ʔibāḍiyy), from إِبَاض (ʔibāḍ, part of the name of Abd Allah ibn Ibad) + ـِيّ (-iyy). By surface analysis, Ibad + -i.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.