Al-Ubaid
Wikimedia disambiguation page
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 word or name meaning 'white' (the former) or the diminutive form of ʿabd. 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
Ebeid, common Levantine or Egyptian spelling
Obaid (name)
Obeid (name)
Ubayd (name)
Ubaydul Haq (disambiguation)
Tribes and individuals
Al-Ubaid (tribe), an Arab tribe
Elijah Obade (born 1991), American-Lebanese basketball player
Places
El Obeid, a city in Sudan
El Obeid Airport, Sudan
Al Ubaidi, a town in Iraq
Beit Obeid, or Beit Abid, a village in Zgharta District, in the Northern Governorate of Lebanon
Tell al-'Ubaid, a small tell site west of Ur, Iraq
21712 Obaid (1999 RL96), a Main-belt Asteroid
Other
Ubaid period, a Neolithic and Chalcolithic period in Mesopotamia
See also
Abeed, an Arabic word meaning "servant" or "slave", used as an ethnic slur for Black people
Abyad (disambiguation), Arabic word and name meaning 'white'. Some transliterations of abyad may overlap with those of ubaid.
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