"Variant of Abd al-Fattah"
The name Abdifatah is commonly a male name.
Abdifatah is the Somali spelling of the Arabic name Abd al-Fattah, also written Abdul Fattah. The Arabic name is a compound of abd, meaning servant, and al-Fattah, meaning the opener, so its literal sense is servant of the opener. Somali spelling joins the two elements without a space and writes the first as Abdi, giving the form Abdifatah used in Somalia and among Somali communities abroad.
The pronunciation of Abdifatah is ab-dee-FAH-tah.
