ʿUbayd
عبيد
Say it u-BAYD
Little servant
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ʿ-b-d
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Ubaid, Obaid, Ubayd
Meaning & source
A diminutive of ʿabd, servant. Lisān al-ʿArab opens the root with al-ʿabd: the human being, owned by his Creator.
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عبد: الْعَبْدُ: الإِنسان، حُرًّا كَانَ أَو رَقِيقًا، يُذْهَبُ بِذَلِكَ إِلى أَنه مَرْبُوبٌ لِبَارِيهِ، جَلَّ وَعَزَّ.
Who carried this name
- Abū ʿĀmir ʿUbayd ibn Sulaym al-Ashʿarī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 5358 (vol. 4, p. 343)