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Badal
बादलSay it BAA-dul
- Meaning
- Cloud Platts, p. 119
- Say it
- BAA-dul
- Written
- बादल
- Other spellings
- Baadal
Badal
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Badal meaning
Badal (बादल) is a Hindu boy's name of Hindi origin (from Sanskrit).
Cloud
Badal (बादल) is the everyday Hindi word for a cloud. Platts' Hindi dictionary of 1884 records bādal as "cloud" and traces it to Sanskrit vārdala, which Monier-Williams gives as a rainy day or bad weather, or to vārida, literally "water-giver", a poetic Sanskrit word for a rain-cloud. Baby-name lists give the name simply as "cloud", which matches the dictionary. In Indian poetry and film songs the monsoon cloud is a welcome image of rain after the summer heat. The name has nothing to do with the Arabic word badal, "change", which only sounds similar.
Source: Platts, A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English (1884), p. 119 · entry bādal · See the entry · checked 25 Oct 2026
References: Platts, bādal, p. 119 · Monier-Williams, vārdala, p. 945 · Monier-Williams, vāri-da, p. 943
Spellings
Badal · Baadal