From Arabic عَبْد (ʕabd, “servant [of]”) + ال (al-, “the”).
Meanings
A male given name from Arabic used by Muslims.
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. 1995 June 5, Mary Anne Weaver, “Children of the Jihad”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2016:
Translations (18)
pl Abdul (male given name) · ms Abdul (male given name) · az Əbdül (male given name) · id Abdul (male given name) · fr Abdoul (male given name) · cmn 阿卜杜勒 (male given name) · mr अब्दुल (male given name) · ms Abdu al- (male given name) · bn আব্দুল (male given name) · uz Abdul (male given name) · ug ئابدۇل (male given name) · kk Абдул (male given name) · nl Abdoel (male given name) · ru Абду́л (male given name) · tr Abdül (male given name) · hi अब्दुल (male given name) · nl Abdel (male given name) · de Abdul (male given name)