It was created by orientalist writers like Lovecraft as an "exotic" name and subsequently popularized in the Anglo literatisphere as a stock Arab character name. doesn't really exist in the Arabic-speaking world as an independent name, even if it's become common in western countries.
It comes from the word "abd" (عبد) in Arabic, which means servant or slave, combined with "ul" or "al" (ال), Arabic's only definitive article. "Al" can also express possession. It's often used as part of theonyms like Abdallah, meaning literally "servant of God," or like Kareem Abd-ul-Jabbar's name which means "servant of the mighty."
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Hope your week off is treating you well. Any chance you still have a copy of the tech bro Mao pic?
Is that something I posted a while ago, or talked about posting? Like most Burgerlanders I have the memory of a guppy.
Think I saw you talk about it on Matrix
Sorry, not ringing any bells. Best I can do for you is a cyborg Lenin. :cyber-lenin:
Damn. Maybe I’m mixing you up with someone in the Libre vanguard. Someone has this picture of Mao as a Silicon Valley hipster and I want it so bad