Ubaid, Ebeid, Obeid, Obaid, Ubayd, Ubayyid, Ubaidi, the Americanized Obade, etc., used with or without the article Al- or El-, are all romanizations of أبيض or عبید, an
Arabic
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word or name meaning 'white' (the former) or the diminutive form of
ʿabd, meaning 'servant' or 'slave' (the latter). The latter is often understood as the shortened form of
Ubayd Allah Ubayd Allah (), 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 detainee held in Guantanamo
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, 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 () is an Arabic surname. Its spelling in Roman characters as such is most commonly a transliteration of the Levantine or Egyptian Arabic
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, common Levantine or Egyptian spelling
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Obaid (name) Obaid is one romanization of the Arabic name also written Ubaid or Obeid. It is used as a masculine given name and a surname.
Given name
* Obaid Khalifa (born 1985), Emirati football player
* Obaid Mohamed (born 1979), Emirati football player
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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) 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 o ...
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Ubaydul Haq (disambiguation) Ubaydul Haq is a Bengali masculine given name of Arabic origin 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 ...
Tribes and individuals
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Al-Ubaid (tribe)
Al-Obaidi (, Al-Ubaidi or Al-Obeidi) is one of the Arab tribes in Iraq settled around Al Jazira, Mesopotamia. It is a noble Arab tribe, descended from former Arabian Royalty; who ruled over a sheikhdom and eventual sultanate in Najd in modern day S ...
, an Arab tribe
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Elijah Obade (born 1991), American-Lebanese basketball player
Places
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El-Obeid
El-Obeid (, ''al-ʾAbyaḍ'', lit."the White"), also romanized as Al-Ubayyid, is the capital of the state of North Kordofan, in Sudan.
History and overview
El-Obeid was founded by the pashas of Ottoman Egypt in 1821. It was attacked by the ...
, 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 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 as ...
, a town in Iraq
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Beit Obeid
Beit Obeid, Beit Abid () is a village in Zgharta District, in the Northern Governorate of Lebanon
Lebanon, officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia. Situated at the crossroads of the Mediterrane ...
, or Beit Abid, a village in Zgharta District, in the Northern Governorate of Lebanon
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Tell al-'Ubaid
Tell al-'Ubaid () also (Tall al-'Ubaid) is a low, relatively small ancient Near Eastern archaeological site about six kilometers west of the site of ancient Ur and about 6 kilometers north of ancient Eridu in southern Iraq's Dhi Qar Governorate. ...
, a small tell site west of Ur, Iraq
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21712 Obaid
Year 171 ( CLXXI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in Rome as the Year of the Consulship of Severus and Herennianus (or, less frequently, year 924 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 171 ...
(1999 RL96), a Main-belt Asteroid
Other
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Ubaid period
The Ubaid period (c. 5500–3700 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, Leonard Woolley in 19 ...
, a Neolithic and Chalcolithic period in Mesopotamia
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Abeed
Abeed or abīd (, plural of ʿabd, ) is an Arabic word meaning "servant" or "slave". The term is usually used in the Arab world and is used as a slur for slaves, which dates back to the Arab slave trade. In recent decades, usage of the word has be ...
, 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 villag ...
, 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-Saudi ...
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 () is an Arabic language, Arabic word meaning one who is subordinated as a slave or a servant, and it means also ...
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Ubayd Allah Ubayd Allah (), 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 detainee held in Guantanamo
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, 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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