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abdal

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ابدال (abdal, “a kind of heedless, disinterested, good-natured man, who takes no care for the morrow”), from Arabic أَبْدَال (ʔabdāl, “compensations, beggar, careless man”). Doublet of aptal (“dumb, stupid”).

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c. 750 CEArabic

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