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
Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic languages, Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns lang ...
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, 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)
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Ubayd (name)
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Ubaydul Haq (disambiguation)
Tribes and individuals
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Al-Ubaid (tribe), 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, 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, 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. 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 or al-Ubayyid, wadi (valley) in Iraq
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Abadiyeh (disambiguation)
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Ubeidiya (disambiguation)
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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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