Abdullah is the primary transliteration of the Arabic given name, Arabic: عبد الله, built from the Arabic words ʿAbd and Allah. The first letter a in Allah in its native pronunciation is unstressed, and is elided following another vowel; in the case of Abdu-llah this is the -u of the Classical Arabicnominative case. It is one of many Arabic theophoric names, meaning slave of God. Gods Follower is also a meaning of this name.
Humility before God is an essential value of Islam, hence Abdullah is a common name among Muslims. In particular, the name of the Islamic prophet Muhammad's father was Abdullah.
The variant used in the Russian language is "Абдулла́" (Abdulla) (cf. Fedul, which has similar origins), with "Абду́л" (Abdul) and "Габдулла́" (Gabdulla) often used in Adyghe.[1]
The Christian Arabic Bible uses the word Allah for God. Presently in the Middle East, the name is sometimes used by Christians, as a given or family name. The continued use of this name is perhaps attributed to the passage in Matthew 25:14-30 which refers to the parable of talents and the three servants. The parable praises the good servants.
Abd Allah ibn Harun al-Rashid better known by his regnal name al-Ma'mun was the seventh Abbasid caliph, who reigned from 813 until his death in 833 CE.
Abdul Rahman Abdullah, Muslim name of Donny Medula, who was jailed 33 years and caned 24 strokes of the cane for four serial armed robberies in Singapore.
Fictional characters[]
Abdul Alhazred, sometimes referred to as Abdullah Alhazred
^van Gelder, G. J. H. (1982), Beyond the Line: Classical Arabic Literary Critics on the Coherence and Unity of the Poem, Brill Publishers, p. 2, ISBN90-04-06854-6
Sources[]
А. В. Суперанская (A. V. Superanskaya). "Современный словарь личных имён: Сравнение. Происхождение. Написание" (Modern Dictionary of First Names: Comparison. Origins. Spelling). Айрис-пресс. Москва, 2005. ISBN5-8112-1399-9
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