Badr (
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بدر) as a given name below is an Arabic masculine and feminine name given to the "
full moon on its fourteenth night" or the
ecclesiastical full moon
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Badr may refer to:
Places
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Badr, Egypt, a city
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Badr, Libya, a town in Libya
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Badr, Saudi Arabia, a city in Saudi Arabia
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Battle of Badr
The Battle of Badr or sometimes called The Raid of Badr ( ; ''Ghazwahu Badr''), also referred to as The Day of the Criterion (, ; ''Yawm al-Furqan'') in the Qur'an and by Muslims, was fought on 13 March 624 CE (17 Ramadan, 2 AH), near the pre ...
, a battle in the early days of Islam near the present-day city
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, various administrative subdivisions of Iran
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Ash-Shaykh Badr, a city in Syria
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Hala-'l Badr, a volcano in Saudi Arabia
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Sheikh Badr
Al-Shaykh Badr (, also transliterated ''Sheikh Bader'') is a city in western Syria, administratively part of the Tartus Governorate. Al-Shaykh Badr has an altitude of . According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), al-Shaykh Badr, ...
, a depopulated village in Jerusalem
People
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Badr (name)
Military
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Operation Badr (disambiguation) Operation Badr may refer to:
* Battle of Badr (624), the armed conflict between Muhammad's Muslim army and Amr ibn Hisham's Mushrikite army
* Operation Badr (1973)
Operation Badr ( ), also known as Plan Badr ( ), was an Egyptian military o ...
, any of four war operations
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Badr-1 (rocket), Yemeni rocket artillery system
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Badr-2000
The Badr-2000 was an Iraqi high technology two-stage solid-propelled Medium-range ballistic missile that was based on the Argentinian Condor-II ballistic missile. The Iraqis invested a lot of money in the production of the missile, however Ir ...
, Iraqi proposed ballistic missile
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PNS Badr
PNS ''Badr'' may refer to following ships of Pakistan Navy:
* , the former British HMS ''Gabbard'' (D47) acquired by Pakistan in 1957 and scrapped in 1985.
* , the former United States USS ''Julius A. Furer'' (FFG-6) acquired by Pakistan in 1989 ...
Other
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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 Airp ...
, based in Khartoum, Sudan
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Badr Organization
The Badr Organization ( ''Munaẓẓama Badr''), previously known as the Badr Brigades or Badr Corps, is an Iraqi Shia Islamist and Khomeinist political party and paramilitary organization headed by Hadi al-Amiri. The Badr Brigade, formed in ...
, a political party in Iraq
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Badr (satellite)
''Badr'' was 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 July 16, 1990, as part of the I ...
, a series of satellites operated by Pakistan, including:
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Badr-1
Badr-1 (, 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-1'' was Pakistan's first indigenously develop ...
, launched in 1990
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Badr-B
The Badr-B (; also known as Badr-II, meaning ''Full Moon-2'') was the second spacecraft and the first Earth observation satellite launched into Sun-synchronous orbit on 10 December 2001 at 09:15 by SUPARCO — Pakistan's national space agency. ' ...
or Badr-2, launched in 2001
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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 or ...
, an ArabSat satellite
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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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Bader Bader is a German occupational surname derived from the German word "Bad" meaning "bath". It originally referred to the owners or attendants of bathhouses, who subsequently took on other tasks including cutting hair and dentistry.
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, a surname
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Baader
Baader is a surname of German origin.
People with the surname Baader
* Andreas Baader (1943–1977), militant of the Red Army Faction (Rote Armee Fraktion), also known as the ''Baader Meinhoff Gang''
* Caspar Baader (born 1953), Swiss politic ...
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Al-Badr (disambiguation)
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Badri (disambiguation)
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