Budayl
بديل
Say it bu-DAYL
A substitute
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- b-d-l
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Budail, Budayl
Meaning & source
A diminutive of badal: one thing standing in the place of another that has gone (Ibn Fāris).
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[بدل] الباء والدال واللام أصلٌ واحد، وهو قيام الشئِ مَقامَ الشئِ الذاهب.
Who carried this name
- Budayl ibn Warqāʾ al-Khuzāʿī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 614 (vol. 1, p. 408)