English Explanatory Dictionary

Handal

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.

Word forms

Handal Handals

Etymology

Two main origins: * Borrowed from Arabic حَنْضَل (ḥanḍal, “colocynth”), a dialectal merger of حَنْظَل (ḥanẓal, “colocynth”). This surname is particularly found in Honduras. * Borrowed from Norwegian Handal, a habitational surname from any of several farmsteads in Norway.

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