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語源

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

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈæbdʊl/
• (米国発音) IPA: /əbˈdʊl/, /æbˈdʊl/
• 韻: -ʊl

固有名詞

Abdul

1. A male given name from Arabic used by Muslims.
   • 1995 June 5, Mary Anne Weaver, “Children of the Jihad”, in The New Yorker‎, archived from the original on 18 April 2016:

     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.

使用する際の注意点

This is not based on a name used independently in Arabic, but a transliteration of Arabic for "servant of the", to be followed by one of the 99 names, or epithets, of Allah; e.g., Abdullatif. Both the epithet Latif ('the All-gentle') and the whole name Abdullatif ('servant of the All-gentle') are given to Muslim men. Women receive the feminine form of one of God’s epithets, such as Latifa. Abdul is not the same name as Abdullah.

名詞

Abdul (plural Abduls)

1. A Muslim.

参考

• Appendix:The 99 names of Allah
• Abdullah