Meaning, origin and history of the name Abdul

Gender Masculine

Usage Arabic, Urdu, Punjabi, Pashto, Uzbek, Bengali, Indonesian, Malay

Scripts عبد ال (Arabic) عبدال (Urdu, Shahmukhi, Pashto) আব্দুল (Bengali)

Pronounced Pron. /ˈʕab.dul/ (Arabic) [key ·simplify]

Meaning & History

First part of compound Arabic names beginning with عبد ال (ʿAbd al) meaning "servant of the" (such as عبد العزيز (ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz) meaning "servant of the powerful").

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Rootʿabd

VariantsAbd, Abdel, Abdo, Abduh, Abed (Arabic) Abdou (Arabic (Maghrebi))

DiminutivesObaid, Ubayd (Arabic)

Other Languages & CulturesObed (Biblical) Iobed, Obed (Biblical Greek) Oved (Biblical Hebrew) Obed (Biblical Latin) Oved (Hebrew) Cabdi (Somali) Abdou, Abdoul (Western African)

Surname DescendantsAbdel, Abdul (Arabic) Abdul (Pashto)

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