Fuḍayl
فُضَيْل
Say it fu-DAYL
Excellence (diminutive form)
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- f-ḍ-l
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- Classical Arabic names
- Also spelled
- Fudail, Fuzail, Fudayl
Meaning & source
The diminutive of faḍl, excellence and bounty: “the opposite of falling short”.
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فضل: الفَضْل والفَضِيلة مَعْرُوفٌ: ضدُّ النَّقْص والنَّقِيصة، وَالْجَمْعُ فُضُول
Who carried this name
- al-Fuḍayl ibn ʿIyāḍ, the ascetic of Makkah al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ (Muʾassasat al-Risālah ed.), vol. 8, p. 421 (entry 114)