Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʕabd/Category:Arabic 1-syllable words#عبدCategory:Arabic terms with IPA pronunciation#عبد

Noun

عَبْد • (ʕabd) m (plural عَبِيد (ʕabīd) or عِبَاد (ʕibād) or عُبْدَان (ʕubdān) or أَعْبُد (ʔaʕbud), feminine أَمَة (ʔama)Category:Arabic links with redundant wikilinks#عبدCategory:Arabic links with redundant target parameters#عبدCategory:Arabic links with manual fragments#عبد)Category:Arabic lemmas#عبدCategory:Arabic nouns#عبدCategory:Arabic entries with incorrect language header#عبدCategory:Arabic masculine nouns#عبدCategory:Pages with entries#عبدCategory:Pages with 6 entries#عبد

1. a person who is under the ownership of another, a slave, a bondservant

   Synonyms: (dated) مَوْلَى (mawlā, “servant”), رَقِيق (raqīq, “slave”)

   Coordinate terms: (dated) مَوْلَى (mawlā, “overlord”), رَبّ (rabb, “lord”), سَيِّد (sayyid, “master”)

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 24:32:

     وَأَنْكِحُوا ٱلْأَيَامَى مِنْكُمْ وَٱلصَّالِحِينَ مِنْ عِبَادِكُمْ وَإِمَائِكُمْ إِنْ يَكُونُوا فُقَرَاءَ يُغْنِهِمُ ٱللَّهُ مِنْ فَضْلِهِ وَٱللَّهُ وَاسِعٌ عَلِيمٌ

     waʔankiḥū l-ʔayāmā minkum waṣ-ṣāliḥīna min ʕibādikum waʔimāʔikum ʔin yakūnū fuqarāʔa yuḡnihimu l-lahu min faḍlihi wal-lahu wāsiʕun ʕalīmun

     And marry the unmarried among you and the righteous among your male slaves and female slaves. If they should be poor, Allah will enrich them from His bounty, and Allah is all-Encompassing and Knowing

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   • (Can we date this quote?), عَميرة بن جُعَل التَّغْلِبيّ, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     جَمَعْتُ رُدَيْنِيًّا كَأَنَّ سِنَانَهُ / سَنَا لَهَبٍ لَمْ يَسْتَعِنْ بِدُخَانِ
     لَيَالِيَ إِذْ أَنْتُمْ لِرَهْطِيَ أَعْبُدٌ / بِرَمَّانَ لَمَّا أَجْدَبَ ٱلحَرَمَانِ

     jamaʕtu rudayniyyan kaʔanna sinānahu / sanā lahabin lam yastaʕin biduḵāni
     layāliya ʔiḏ ʔantum lirahṭiya ʔaʕbudun / birammāna lammā ʔajdaba l-ḥaramāni

     I held up my Rudayni spear, its teeth like splendid, smokeless flames
     For nights, you were bondsmen for my troop, in Ramān, when the Sanctuaries dried.

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   1. someone resembling, likened to, or related to a slave (as in status, worth, condition, and so on)
      • (Can we date this quote?), اَلْمُتَنَبِّيّ, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

        أَكُلَّمَا ٱغْتَالَ عَبْدُ السَّوْءِ سَيِّدَهُ / أَوْ خَانَهُ فَلَهُ فِي مِصْرَ تَمْهِيدُ
        صَارَ الْخَصِيُّ إِمَامَ الْآبِقِينَ بِهَا / فَٱلْحُرُّ مُسْتَعْبَدٌ وَٱلْعَبْدُ مَعْبُودُ
        نَامَتْ نَوَاطِيرُ مِصْرٍ عَنْ ثَعَالِبِهَا / فَقَدْ بَشِمْنَ وَمَا تَفْنَى العَنَاقِيدُ
        الْعَبْدُ لَيْسَ لِحُرٍّ صَالِحٍ بِأَخٍ / لَوْ أَنَّهُ فِي ثِيَابِ الْحُرِّ مَوْلُودُ
        لَا تَشْتَرِ الْعَبْدَ إِلَّا وَٱلْعَصَا مَعَهُ / إِنَّ الْعَبِيدَ لَأَنْجَاسٌ مَنَاكِيدُ
        مَا كُنْتُ أَحْسَبُنِي أَحْيَا إِلَى زَمَنٍ / يُسِيءُ بِي فِيهِ كَلْبٌ وَهْوَ مَحْمُودُ

        ʔakullamā ḡtāla ʕabdu s-sawʔi sayyidahu / ʔaw ḵānahu falahu fī miṣra tamhīdu
        ṣāra l-ḵaṣiyyu ʔimāma l-ʔābiqīna bihā / fal-ḥurru mustaʕbadun wal-ʕabdu maʕbūdu
        nāmat nawāṭīru miṣrin ʕan ṯaʕālibihā / faqad bašimna wamā tafnā l-ʕanāqīdu
        al-ʕabdu laysa liḥurrin ṣāliḥin biʔaḵin / law ʔannahu fī ṯiyābi l-ḥurri mawlūdu
        lā taštari l-ʕabda ʔillā wal-ʕaṣā maʕahu / ʔinna l-ʕabīda laʔanjāsun manākīdu
        mā kuntu ʔaḥsabunī ʔaḥyā ʔilā zamanin / yusīʔu bī fīhi kalbun wahwa maḥmūdu

        Can any fiendish slave who slew or stabbed his master find in Egypt refuge, there to be advanced?
        The Castrate King became the Chief of Runaways! The servants are revered; the freeman is disgraced!
        The Egyptian shepherds, they all are now asleep, and foxes roam, and all were drowsed with endless grapes!
        A freeman and a slave are neither peers nor brothers, though the slave may be in freemen's clothing raised.
        Never pay for any slave without the stick too: a slave, to noble men, is foul, and vile, and damned!
        I never thought that I would live and see a dog degrading me while he himself is hailed and praised!

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2. (vulgarCategory:Arabic vulgarities#عبد, ethnic slurCategory:Arabic ethnic slurs#عبد, offensiveCategory:Arabic offensive terms#عبد, colloquialCategory:Arabic colloquialisms#عبد) term of abuse for a black person, equivalent to English nigger

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.ba.da/Category:Arabic 3-syllable words#عبدCategory:Arabic terms with IPA pronunciation#عبد

Verb

عَبَدَ • (ʕabada) I (non-past يَعْبُدُ (yaʕbudu), verbal noun عِبَادَة (ʕibāda) or عُبُودَة (ʕubūda) or عُبُودِيَّة (ʕubūdiyya))Category:Arabic lemmas#عبدCategory:Arabic verbs#عبدCategory:Arabic entries with incorrect language header#عبدCategory:Pages with entries#عبدCategory:Pages with 6 entries#عبد

1. to worship, to serve, to be devoted to; to venerate or adore in a subservient manner
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 1:5:

     إِيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ وَإِيَّاكَ نَسْتَعِينُ

     ʔiyyāka naʕbudu waʔiyyāka nastaʕīnu

     You alone do we worship, and from You alone do we seek help.

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʕab.ba.da/Category:Arabic 3-syllable words#عبدCategory:Arabic terms with IPA pronunciation#عبد

Verb

عَبَّدَ • (ʕabbada) II (non-past يُعَبِّدُ (yuʕabbidu), verbal noun تَعْبِيد (taʕbīd))Category:Arabic lemmas#عبدCategory:Arabic verbs#عبدCategory:Arabic entries with incorrect language header#عبدCategory:Pages with entries#عبدCategory:Pages with 6 entries#عبد

1. to enslave, to subjugate, to subject
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 26:22:

     وَتِلۡكَ نِعۡمَةٌ تَمُنُّهَا عَلَىَّ أَنۡ عَبَّدتَّ بَنِىٓ إِسۡرَآءِيلَ

     "Watil'ka niʼ'matun tamunnuhā ʼalayya an abbadtta banī is'rāīla"

     "How can that be a ‘favour,’ of which you remind me, when ˹it was only because˺ you ˹have˺ enslaved the Children of Israel?”"

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Noun

عبد • (ʔabid) m (plural عبيد (ʔabīd))Category:Chadian Arabic lemmas#عبدCategory:Chadian Arabic nouns#عبدCategory:Chadian Arabic entries with incorrect language header#عبدCategory:Chadian Arabic masculine nouns#عبدCategory:Pages with entries#عبدCategory:Pages with 6 entries#عبد

1. slave

Verb

عبد • (ʔabad) I (non-past يعبد (yaʔabud, yaʔabid))Category:Chadian Arabic lemmas#عبدCategory:Chadian Arabic verbs#عبدCategory:Chadian Arabic form-I verbs#عبدCategory:Chadian Arabic entries with incorrect language header#عبدCategory:Pages with entries#عبدCategory:Pages with 6 entries#عبد

1. to worship (god), to adore

Verb

عبد • (ʔabbad) II (non-past يعبد (yiʔabbid))Category:Chadian Arabic lemmas#عبدCategory:Chadian Arabic verbs#عبدCategory:Chadian Arabic form-II verbs#عبدCategory:Chadian Arabic entries with incorrect language header#عبدCategory:Pages with entries#عبدCategory:Pages with 6 entries#عبد

1. to enslave

Synonyms

• بَنْدِه (bande)
• غُلام (ġolâm)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.bad/, [ˈʕa.bad]Category:South Levantine Arabic terms with IPA pronunciation#عبد

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Verb

عبد • (ʕabad) I (present بعبد (boʕbod))Category:South Levantine Arabic lemmas#عبدCategory:South Levantine Arabic verbs#عبدCategory:South Levantine Arabic form-I verbs#عبدCategory:South Levantine Arabic entries with incorrect language header#عبدCategory:Pages with entries#عبدCategory:Pages with 6 entries#عبد

1. to worship

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʕab.bad/, [ˈʕab.bad]Category:South Levantine Arabic terms with IPA pronunciation#عبد

• Audio (al-Lidd):

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  Category:South Levantine Arabic terms with audio pronunciation#عبد

Verb

عبّد • (ʕabbad) II (present بعبّد (biʕabbed))Category:South Levantine Arabic lemmas#عبدCategory:South Levantine Arabic verbs#عبدCategory:South Levantine Arabic form-II verbs#عبدCategory:South Levantine Arabic entries with incorrect language header#عبدCategory:Pages with entries#عبدCategory:Pages with 6 entries#عبد

1. to pave

   Synonym: زفّت (zaffat)