Abu Bakr
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Etymology
[edit]Transliteration of Arabic أَبُو بَكْر (ʔabū bakr, literally “father of a young camel; father of a person named Bakr”).
Proper noun
[edit]Abu Bakr
- (Islam) A senior companion, the closest friend, and, through the marriage of his daughter Aisha, the father-in-law of Muhammad, recognized in Sunni Islam as the first of Muhammad's rightly-guided successors (the Rashidun caliphs).
- A male given name from Arabic.
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- English terms derived from Arabic
- English terms derived from the Arabic root ء ب و
- English terms derived from the Arabic root ب ك ر
- English terms borrowed from Arabic
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- English uncountable nouns
- English multiword terms
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- English given names
- English male given names
- English male given names from Arabic