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, 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, common Levantine or Egyptian spelling
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Obaid (name)
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Obeid (name) Obeid is one romanization of a common Arabic given name and surname.
It may refer to:
Given name
* Obeid bin Said bin Rashid, first Ruler of Dubai under the Al Bu Falasah, ruling for three years prior to his death in 1836
* Obeid Al-Dosari (born ...
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Ubayd (name)
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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
* Obaid ...
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 ...
, 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 ...
, a city in Sudan
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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 measuri ...
, Sudan
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Al Ubaidi, a town in Iraq
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Beit Obeid, 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 (1999 RL96), a Main-belt Asteroid
Other
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Ubaid period
The Ubaid period (c. 6500–3700 BC) is a prehistoric period of Mesopotamia. The name derives from Tell al-'Ubaid where the earliest large excavation of Ubaid period material was conducted initially in 1919 by Henry Hall and later by Leonard Wo ...
, a Neolithic and Chalcolithic period in Mesopotamia
See also
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Abeed Abeed or abīd (, plural of ʿabd, ), is an Arabic word meaning "servant" or "slave". The term is used sometimes in the Arab world as an ethnic slur for Black people, and dates back to the Arab slave trade. In recent decades, usage of the word has b ...
, an Arabic word meaning "servant" or "slave", used as an ethnic slur for Black people
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Abyad (disambiguation), Arabic word and name meaning 'white'. Some transliterations of ''abyad'' may overlap with those of ''ubaid''.
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Wadi al-Abyad or al-Ubayyid, wadi (valley) in Iraq
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Abadiyeh (disambiguation)
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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 w ...
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Ubayd Allah, for the many variants of that name, based upon this one and the Arabic word for "God"
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Obadé, town in Burkina Faso (name unrelated to the Arabic word)
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