عبد

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Arabic

عَبْد
إِمَاء‎

Etymology

From the root ع ب د (ʕ-b-d). The noun sense can be faithfully reconstructed to Proto-Semitic *ʿabd-.

Pronunciation 1

Noun

عَبْد (ʕabdm (plural عَبِيد (ʕabīd) or عُبْدَان (ʕubdān) or عِبَاد (ʕibād), feminine أَمَة (ʔama))

  1. slave, serf
  2. bondsman, servant
  3. servant of God, human being, man
    الْعِبَاد (al-ʕibād)humanity, mankind
    الْعَبْدُ لِلّٰهِ (al-ʕabdu lillāhi)I (first-person pronoun showing modesty)
Declension

Pronunciation 2

Verb

عَبَدَ (ʕabada) I, non-past يَعْبُدُ‎ (yaʕbudu)

  1. to worship, to venerate
Conjugation

Pronunciation 3

Verb

عَبَّدَ (ʕabbada) II, non-past يُعَبِّدُ‎ (yuʕabbidu)

  1. to enslave, to subjugate, to subject
Conjugation

Descendants

  • Swahili: abada

References

  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “عبد”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Libyan Arabic

Noun

عبد (ʿabədm (عبيد (ʿbīd) and عبدّة (ʿbədda) pl [only for sense 1])

  1. slave
  2. (derogatory, ethnic slur) black man

Verb

عبد (ʿbad)

  1. to worship

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic عَبْد (ʕabd).

Noun

Dari عبد
Iranian Persian
Tajik абд

عبد ('abd)

  1. slave
  2. servant

Synonyms