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قدافي
“hurler, flinger; catapult, mangonel, ballista”
قدافي (gaddāfi) is a surname from Arabic. It is used in Libyan Arabic.
aylWritten in Arabic script, read right to left. In English: Gaddafi.
Meaning & origin
What it means
قدافي goes back to a word meaning “hurler, flinger; catapult, mangonel, ballista.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
قدافي’s family of names
In Libyan Arabic usage, قدافي has a later derivative in গাদ্দাফি. In Libyan Arabic usage, قدافي as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the English form GADDAFI. In Libyan Arabic usage, قدافي as a surname can be written in the Roman alphabet as gaddāfi.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
قدافي has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Arabic roots to each of them.
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Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
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