Ubaid, Ebeid, Obeid, Ubayd, Ubayyid, Ubaidi, the Americanized Obade, etc., used with or without the article Al- or El-, are all romanizations of عبید, an Arabic word or name forming the diminutive form of
ʿabd, meaning 'servant' or 'slave'. It is often understood as the shortened form of
Ubayd Allah Ubayd Allah ( ar, عبيد الله), also spelled or transliterated Obaidullah, Obaydullah, Obeidallah, or Ubaydullah, is a male Arabic given name that means "little servant of God".
Given name Obaidullah
* Obaidullah (detainee), an Afghan detaine ...
, meaning "small/humble servant of God".
Ubeidiya: by adding the suffix -iya (also in different spellings), the meaning becomes "place of..." (Ubaid, 'Ubayd, etc.)
People
The name as such in various spellings
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Ebeid Ebeid ( ar, عبيد) is an Arabic surname. Its spelling in Roman characters as such is most commonly a transliteration of the Levantine or Egyptian Arabic pronunciation of the name Ubayd, spelt identically in Arabic. Other transliterations and pro ...
, common Levantine or Egyptian spelling
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Obaid (name)
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Obeid (name)
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Ubayd (name) Ubayd is an Arabic given name and surname, a variant romanization of the same name also written Ebeid, Obeid, etc.
It may refer to:
Given name
* Ubayd Zakani, Persian poet and satirist of the 14th century
* Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi Billah, leader of ...
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Ubaydul Haq (disambiguation) Ubaydul Haq is an Arabic phrase meaning ''Servant of the Truth''. It may refer to
* M. Obaidul Huq (died 2012), Bangladeshi engineer, freedom fighter and politician
* Obaidul Haque (1934–2008), Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician
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Tribes and individuals
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Al-Ubaid (tribe) Al-Obaidi ( ar, العبيد, Al-Ubaidi or Al-Obeidi) is one of the Arab tribes in Iraq settled around Al Jazira, Mesopotamia. It hails from the tribe of Zubaid, which itself is an offshoot of the ancient Yemenite tribe Madh'hij. The tribe was an in ...
, an Arab tribe
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Elijah Obade (born 1991), American-Lebanese basketball player
Places
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El-Obeid
El-Obeid ( ar, الأبيض, ''al-ʾAbyaḍ'', lit."the White"), also romanized as Al-Ubayyid, is the capital of the state of North Kurdufan, in Sudan.
History and overview
El-Obeid was founded by the pashas of Ottoman Egypt in 1821. It was ...
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El Obeid Airport
El Obeid Airport is an airport serving El-Obeid, the capital city of the North Kurdufan state in Sudan.
Facilities
The airport resides at an elevation of above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 01/19 with an asphalt surface measuring ...
, Sudan
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Al Ubaidi
Al Ubaidi (or Al Obaidi) is a town in the Al Anbar Governorate of Iraq.
It is an Iraqi city situated along the south side of Euphrates River near the Syrian border. It is a subdistrict of Al Qa'im and contains both New Ubaydi and Old Ubaydi a ...
, a town in Iraq
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Beit Obeid
Beit Obeid, Beit Abid ( ar, بيت عبيد) is a village in Zgharta District, in the Northern Governorate of Lebanon
Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is ...
, or Beit Abid, a village in Zgharta District, in the Northern Governorate of Lebanon
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Tell al-'Ubaid
Tell al-'Ubaid ( ar, العبيد) is a low, relatively small tell (settlement mound) west of nearby Ur in southern Iraq's Dhi Qar Governorate. The majority of the remains are from the Chalcolithic Ubaid period, for which Tell al-'Ubaid is the ...
, a small tell site west of Ur, Iraq
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21712 Obaid
Year 171 ( CLXXI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Severus and Herennianus (or, less frequently, year 924 '' Ab urbe co ...
(1999 RL96), a Main-belt Asteroid
Other
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Ubaid period, a Neolithic and Chalcolithic period in Mesopotamia
See also
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Abeed, an Arabic word meaning "servant" or "slave", used as an ethnic slur for Black people
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Abyad (disambiguation) Abyad, also transliterated abiad, is an Arabic word meaning 'white'. It may refer to:
Places
* Abu al Abyad (formerly Abu al Jirab), an island of the United Arab Emirates
* Hajar Abyad, a village in northern Syria
* Jeb Abyad-Byud, a Syrian vill ...
, Arabic word and name meaning 'white'. Some transliterations of ''abyad'' may overlap with those of ''ubaid''.
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Wadi al-Abyad
Wadi al-Abyad or al-Ubayyid (Arabic: وادي الأبيض, "white wadi") is the second-longest wadi in Iraq (after Wadi Hauran) and extends in west of Iraq within Al Anbar Governorate and Karbala Governorate. It runs for roughly , from Iraqi-Saud ...
or al-Ubayyid, wadi (valley) in Iraq
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Abadiyeh (disambiguation) Abadiyeh, Abadiyah, Aabadiyeh and other romanisations, preceded or not by the article al- or el-, is an Arabic place-name derived from the word '' ʿabd'', meaning 'slave', 'servant', or 'worshipper'. It is often understood as the shortened form of ...
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Ubeidiya (disambiguation) Ubeidiya commonly refers to:
* Ubeidiya prehistoric site
* Ubeidiya, West Bank
* Ubeidiya, Tiberias
See also
* Abd (Arabic)
ʿAbd ( ar, عبد) is an Arabic word meaning one who is subordinated as a slave or a servant, and it means also to wor ...
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Ubayd Allah Ubayd Allah ( ar, عبيد الله), also spelled or transliterated Obaidullah, Obaydullah, Obeidallah, or Ubaydullah, is a male Arabic given name that means "little servant of God".
Given name Obaidullah
* Obaidullah (detainee), an Afghan detaine ...
, for the many variants of that name, based upon this one and the Arabic word for "God"
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Obadé
Obadé is a town in the Manni Department of Gnagna Province in eastern Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Mali t ...
, town in Burkina Faso (name unrelated to the Arabic word)
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