Abyaḍ
أبيض
Say it AB-yad
White in colour
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- b-y-ḍ
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Abyad, Abiad
Meaning & source
White: bayāḍ is the opposite of black (Lisān).
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بيض: الْبَيَاضُ: ضِدُّ السَّوَادِ، يَكُونُ ذَلِكَ فِي الْحَيَوَانِ وَالنَّبَاتِ وَغَيْرِ ذَلِكَ مِمَّا يَقْبَلُهُ غَيْرُهُ.
Who carried this name
- Abyaḍ ibn Ḥammāl al-Maʾribī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 19 (vol. 1, p. 176)