Abdul

//əbˈdʊl// name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A Muslim.
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A male given name from Arabic used by Muslims.

    "Abdul Basit’s life as one of America’s most-wanted men came to an end almost as suddenly as it began. His alleged co-conspirators in the World Trade Center bombing had implicated “Ramzi Yousef” when they were arrested, and the F.B.I. had on several occasions laid elaborate plans to capture him in Pakistan, but each time he had been alerted and had disappeared, either into Karachi’s un derground or across the border into Afghanistan."

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Example

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"The sixth Prime Minister of Malaysia is Dato' Seri Najib Abdul Razak."

Etymology

From Arabic عَبْد (ʕabd, “servant [of]”) + ال (al-, “the”).

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.