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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; Walte ...

: 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 mean ...

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 th ...

, a city *

Badr, Libya Badr ( ar, بدر, is a small town in the Nalut District in northwestern Libya, with a population of 18,693 as of 2010. Prior to the 2007 reorganization of districts, it was part of Yafran District. The town is currently home to the Alseaan ( ...

, 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 Qu ...

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

Battle of Badr The Battle of Badr ( ar, غَزْوَةُ بَدِرْ ), also referred to as The Day of the Criterion (, ) in the Qur'an and by Muslims, was fought on 13 March 624 CE (17 Ramadan, 2 AH), near the present-day city of Badr, Al Madinah Provin ...

, a battle in the early days of Islam * Hala-'l Badr, 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 1947–1 ...

, 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), an unsuccessful Iranian operation in the Iran-Iraq War * Operation Badr (1999) or Kar ...

, any of four war operations *

Badr-1 (rocket) The Badr-1 210 mm is a Yemeni military, self-propelled, multiple rocket launcher; a type of rocket artillery, used by Houthis. It features a twin tube launcher mounted on a 6×6 truck. On 25 August 2019, according to Aljazeera, Houthis claimed th ...

, Yemeni rocket artillery system * Badr-2000, Iraqi proposed ballistic missile

Other

Badr Airlines Badr Airlines, formerly Sarit Airlines (from 1997 to 2004), is an airline based in Khartoum, Sudan, operating cargo and passenger air services for humanitarian aid missions, and chartered VIP flights. Its main base is Khartoum International Airpo ...

, based in Khartoum, Sudan *

Badr Organization The Badr Organization ( ar, منظمة بدر ''Munaẓẓama Badr''), previously known as the Badr Brigades or Badr Corps, is an Iraqi Shia Islam, Shia Islamism, Islamist political party and military organization headed by Hadi Al-Amiri. The Bad ...

, a political party in Iraq *

Badr (satellite) Badr is a series of satellites operated by Pakistan. The first satellite Badr-1, was launched in July 1990. It was the first SUPARCO engineered object to orbit the Earth. That launch took place on 16 July 1990 as part of the International ...

, 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 deve ...

, 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 Badr-4 (a.k.a. Arabsat 4B) is an EADS Astrium-built communications satellite operated by Arabsat, launched 8 November 2006 on a Proton-M/ Briz-M rocket. It provides fixed satellite communications services in C- and Ku-bands from the 26° East orbi ...

, an ArabSat satellite *

Badr-6 The Arab Satellite Communications Organization (often abbreviated as Arabsat) is a communications satellite operator in the Arab World, headquartered in the city of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Arabsat was created to deliver satellite-based, public and ...

, an ArabSat satellite

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