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- noun A religious devotee or dervish in Persia.
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- noun A religious
devotee ordervish inPersia .
Etymologies
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Arabic ابدال (abdāl), plural of بدل (bádal, "a substitute; a good, religious man; saint"), from بدل (bádala, "to replace")
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