عبد

See also: ع ب د

Arabic

عَبْد
إِمَاء‎

Etymology

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

Pronunciation 1

  • IPA(key): /ʕabd/

Noun

عَبْد (ʿabd) m (plural عَبِيد (ʿabīd) or عُبْدَان (ʿubdān) or عِبَاد (ʿibād), feminine أَمَة (ʾama))

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

Pronunciation 2

  • IPA(key): /ʕa.ba.da/

Verb

عَبَدَ (ʿabada) I, non-past يَعْبُدُ‎ (yaʿbudu)

  1. to worship, to venerate
Conjugation

Pronunciation 3

  • IPA(key): /ʕab.ba.da/

Verb

عَبَّدَ (ʿabbada) II, non-past يُعَبِّدُ‎ (yuʿabbidu)

  1. to enslave, to subjugate, to subject
Conjugation

Descendants

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 (ʿabəd) m

(عبيد (ʿbīd) and عبدّة (ʿbədda) pl [only for sense 1])
  1. slave
  2. (derogatory) black man

Verb

عبد (ʿbad)

  1. to worship

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic عَبْد (ʿabd).

Noun

Dari Persian عبد
Iranian Persian عبد
Tajiki Persian абд (abd)

عبد ('abd)

  1. slave
  2. servant

Synonyms

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