Badr (

Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter ...

: بدر) as a given name below is an Arabic masculine and feminine name given to the "

full moon The full moon is the lunar phase when the Moon appears fully illuminated from Earth's perspective. This occurs when Earth is located between the Sun and the Moon (when the ecliptic longitudes of the Sun and Moon differ by 180°). This means ...

on its fourteenth night" or the

ecclesiastical full moon An ecclesiastical full moon is formally the 14th day of the ecclesiastical lunar month (an ecclesiastical moon) in an ecclesiastical lunar calendar. The ecclesiastical lunar calendar spans the year with lunar months of 30 and 29 days which are int ...

. Badr may refer to: .and it is also one of the oldest and rarest names in the Arabic dialect

Places

Badr, Egypt Badr ( ar, بدر ) is a city located north east in the Cairo Governorate, Egypt. Badr is planned as an industrial city and includes 129 factories. In addition to this, 350 factories are still under construction. Most factories are built with the ...

, a city * Badr, Libya, a town in Libya *

Badr, Saudi Arabia Badr ( ar, بَـدْر, full name: Badr Hunayn, ar, بدر حنین) is a town in Al Madinah Province, Al-Hijaz, Saudi Arabia. It is located about from the Islamic holy city of Medina. It was the location of the Battle of Badr, between the Qura ...

, a city in Saudi Arabia * Badr Rural District (disambiguation), administrative subdivisions of Iran *

Ash-Shaykh Badr Al-Shaykh Badr ( ar, الشيخ بدر, also spelled ''Sheikh Bader'') is a city in Syria, administratively belonging to Tartus Governorate. Al-Shaykh Badr has an altitude of 536 meters. As of 2008, it had a population of 47,982. Its inhabitants ...

, a city in Syria * Battle of Badr, a battle in the early days of Islam *

Hala-'l Badr Ḥalā-'l Badr (or Hala-'l Bedr / Hallat al Badr, in ar, حلا البدر) is a volcano in northwestern Saudi Arabia at 27.25° N, 37.235° E. The volcano is of the cinder cone (or scoria-cone) type, and is on the northeast corner of the Thadra ...

, a volcano in Saudi Arabia *

Sheikh Badr Sheikh Badr ( ar, تلة الشيخ بدر, translit=Talla aš-Šayḫ Badr, lit=Hill of Sheikh Badr ; he, שייח' באדר) was a Palestinian Arab village on a hilltop in west Jerusalem. The Haganah expelled its population during the 1947� ...

, a depopulated village in Jerusalem

People

* Badr (name)

Military

Operation Badr (disambiguation) Operation Badr may refer to: * Operation Badr (1973), the highly successful Egyptian crossing of the Bar-Lev Line in the Yom Kippur War * Operation Badr (1985) Operation Badr was an Iranian operation conducted during the Iran–Iraq War against th ...

, any of four war operations * Badr-1 (rocket), Yemeni rocket artillery system * Badr-2000, Iraqi proposed ballistic missile

Other

* Badr Airlines, based in Khartoum, Sudan * Badr Organization, a political party in Iraq * Badr (satellite), a series of satellites operated by Pakistan, including: **

Badr-1 Badr-A ( ur, , meaning ''Full Moon-A'') was the first artificial and the first digital communications satellite launched by Pakistan's national space authority — the SUPARCO — in 1990. The ''Badr-A'' was Pakistan's first indigenously de ...

, launched in 1990 **

Badr-B The Badr-B ( ur, ; also known as Badr-II, meaning ''Full Moon-2'') is the second spacecraft and the first earth observation satellite launched into Earth orbit on 10 December 2001 at 09:15 by the SUPARCO — Pakistan's national space agency. ' ...

or Badr-2, launched in 2001 * Badr-4, an ArabSat satellite * Badr-6, an ArabSat satellite

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