Budaila (Name)

Budaila (transliteration: Budayla, Arabic: بديلة) is an Arabic name for girls 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”. Budaila is the feminine form of Budail.

Budaila is also spelled Budayla, Budailah, Budaylah and Budeila, among others.

Below is the name Budaila written in Arabic naskh script:

Below is the name Budaila 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.