Budail (Name)

Budail (transliteration: Budayl, Arabic: بديل) is an Arabic name for boys that means “substitute”, “replacement”, something or someone that stands in the stead of another.¹²³ Budail also means “honorable”, “respected”.⁴ Figuratively, the name can mean “a child whose birth is consolation for a loss”.

• Budail bin Warqaa’ bin Abd al-Uzzaa بُديل بن ورقاء بن عبد العزّى
• Budail ibn Abi Maryam بديل ابن ابي مريم
• Budail (last name unknown) بُديل غير منسوب
• Budail bin Salamah bin Umm Asram بديل بن سلمة بن أم أصرم
• Budail bin Amr al-Khatmi al-Ansari بديل بن عمرو الخطمي الأنصاري
• Budail bin Abd Manaf bin Salamah بديل بن عبد مناف بن سلمة
• Budail bin Kulthum bin Salim al-Khuza`i بديل بن كلثوم بن سالم الخزاعي

Below is the name Budail written in Arabic naskh script:

Below is the name Budail written in Arabic kufi script:

1. Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876), بدل.
2. Al-Muṭarrizī, al-Mughrib fī Tartīb al-Muʿrib (d. 1213 CE), بدل.
3. Al-Zamakhsharī, Asās al-Balāgha (d. 1143 CE), بدل.
4. Ibn Sīda al-Mursī, Al-Muḥkam wa-l-Muḥīṭ al-Aʿẓam (d. 1066 CE), بدل.