عُبَيْد Ubaid in Arabic
عُبَيْد is how you say “Ubaid” in Arabic.
Root ع ب د ʿ-b-d. noun (diminutive of ʿabd), used as a proper name. ʿubayd.
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Meaning of Ubaid in Arabic
- Ubaid — an Arabic personal name the diminutive form of ʿabd ('servant, slave')
- little servant, little slave literal sense carried by the diminutive pattern
Example sentence
عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُتْبَةِ،
From Ubaydullah son of Abdullah son of Utbah,
عُبَيْدِ Ubayd
The first element of a compound name, set directly before the divine name to form a 'servant/little-servant of' pairing. As the front term of that pairing it leans on the following name for its sense and takes the case the preceding preposition assigns.
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How it is used
ʿUbayd is the diminutive of ʿabd ('slave, servant') and functions in Arabic almost entirely as a proper name rather than an everyday common noun.
Words from the same root
- عَبْدٌ slave, servant, worshipper
- عِبَادَةٌ worship, service, humble obedience (to God)
- عُبُودِيَّةٌ slavery, servitude
- تَعَبَّدَ to devote oneself to worship, to serve God
- اِسْتَعْبَدَ to enslave, to take as a slave
- عَبِيدٌ slaves (plural of ʿabd)
Common questions
- How do you say "Ubaid" in Arabic?
- Ubaid is written عُبَيْد (ʿubayd) in Arabic, the diminutive of ʿabd, 'servant'.
- What does the name Ubaid mean?
- It literally means 'little servant' or 'little slave' — the diminutive of ʿabd ('servant, slave'), from a root (ʿ-b-d) whose core sense is serving or worshipping.
Related words
Definitions summarised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).