The story
- Arabic · borrowed fromأَبْدَال
- English todayabdal
From Arabic أَبْدَال (ʔabdāl), plural of بَدَل (badal, “a substitute; a good, religious man; saint”), from بَدَلَ (badala, “to replace”).
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.