Mufaḍḍal
مفضل
Say it mu-FAD-dal
Favoured, preferred
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- f-ḍ-l
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The early generations
- Also spelled
- Mufaddal, Mufazzal, Mufadhal
Meaning & source
Preferred: faḍḍalahu is to set someone above others (Lisān).
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وفَضَّله: مَزَّاه.
Who carried this name
- al-Mufaḍḍal ibn Faḍālah, judge of Egypt al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ, no. 73 (vol. 8, p. 280)