ʿUbaydah
عبيدة
Say it u-BAY-dah
Little servant
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ʿ-b-d
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Ubaidah, Obaida, Ubayda
Meaning & source
A diminutive form 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
- ʿUbaydah ibn al-Ḥārith ibn al-Muṭṭalib, who fell at Badr al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ, no. 45 (vol. 1, p. 256)