ب د ل

ب د ل

See also: بدل‎, تدل‎, and بذل‎

Arabic

Root

ب د ل • (b-d-l)

1. Related to changing or exchanging
2. Related to pain in the joints

Derived terms

Verbs:

• Form I: بَدَلَ‎ (badala, “to replace, exchange”)
  • Verbal noun: بَدْل‎ (badl, “replacement, exchange”)
  • Active participle: بَادِل‎ (bādil)
  • Passive participle: مَبْدُول‎ (mabdūl)
• Form II: بَدَّلَ‎ (baddala, “to change, alter, exchange, substitute, replace”)
  • Verbal noun: تَبْدِيل‎ (tabdīl, “change, alteration, exchange, substitution, replacement, transposition, compensation”)
  • Active participle: مُبَدِّل‎ (mubaddil)
  • Passive participle: مُبَدَّل‎ (mubaddal)
• Form III: بَادَلَ‎ (bādala, “to exchange with (someone)”)
  • Verbal noun: مُبَادَلَة‎ (mubādala, “exchange”), بِدَال‎ (bidāl, “exchange”)
  • Active participle: مُبَادِل‎ (mubādil)
  • Passive participle: مُبَادَل‎ (mubādal)
• Form IV: أَبْدَلَ‎ (ʾabdala, “to exchange, substitute, replace”)
  • Verbal noun: إِبْدَال‎ (ʾibdāl, “exchange, substitution, replacement”)
  • Active participle: مُبْدِل‎ (mubdil)
  • Passive participle: مُبْدَل‎ (mubdal)
• Form V: تَبَدَّلَ‎ (tabaddala, “to take in exchange for, be exchanged, be altered”)
  • Verbal noun: تَبَدُّل‎ (tabaddul, “taking in exchange, being exchanged, being altered, holiday clothes, permutation”)
  • Active participle: مُتَبَدِّل‎ (mutabaddil)
  • Passive participle: مُتَبَدَّل‎ (mutabaddal)
• Form VI: تَبَادَلَ‎ (tabādala, “to mutually exchange, interchange, (intransitive) alternate, take turns”)
  • Verbal noun: تَبَادُل‎ (tabādul, “mutual exchange, exchange, interchange, alternation, taking turns, permutation, transposition, reciprocity”)
  • Active participle: مُتَبَادِل‎ (mutabādil)
  • Passive participle: مُتَبَادَل‎ (mutabādal, “mutual, reciprocal”)
• Form VII: اِنْبَدَلَ‎ (inbadala, “to be interchanged”)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْبِدَال‎ (inbidāl, “being interchanged”)
  • Active participle: مُنْبَدِل‎ (munbadil)
• Form X: اِسْتَبْدَلَ‎ (istabdala, “to take in exchange for”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِبْدَال‎ (istibdāl, “taking in exchange”)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَبْدِل‎ (mustabdil)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَبْدَل‎ (mustabdal, “(sports) reserve player”)

References

• Lane, Edward William (1863), “ب د ل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “ب د ل”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “ب د ل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

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South Levantine Arabic

Root

ب د ل

1. Related to exchanging

Derived terms

Verbs and verb forms

• Form II: بدّل‎ (baddal, “to exchange”)
  • Verbal Noun: تبديل‎ (tabdīl, “exchange”)
• Form V: تبدّل‎ (tbaddal, “to be exchanged”)
• Form VI: تبادل‎ (tbādal, “to exchange with each other”)

Nouns

• بدلة‎ (badle, “uniform”)

Adjectives

• بديل‎ (badīl, “alternative, substitute”)

Prepositions

• بدال‎ (badāl, “instead of”)