# Al-Ubaid

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**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](/source/Arabic_language) word or name meaning 'white' (the former) or the diminutive form of [ʿabd](/source/Abd_(Arabic)). The latter is often understood as the shortened form of [Ubayd Allah](/source/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](/source/Ebeid), common Levantine or Egyptian spelling
- [Obaid (name)](/source/Obaid_(name))
- [Obeid (name)](/source/Obeid_(name))
- [Ubayd (name)](/source/Ubayd_(name))
- [Ubaydul Haq (disambiguation)](/source/Ubaydul_Haq_(disambiguation))

Tribes and individuals

- [Al-Ubaid (tribe)](/source/Al-Ubaid_(tribe)), an Arab tribe
- [Elijah Obade](/source/Elijah_Obade) (born 1991), American-Lebanese basketball player

## Places

- [El-Obeid](/source/El-Obeid), a city in Sudan
- [El Obeid Airport](/source/El_Obeid_Airport), Sudan
- [Al Ubaidi](/source/Al_Ubaidi), a town in Iraq
- [Beit Obeid](/source/Beit_Obeid), or Beit Abid, a village in Zgharta District, in the Northern Governorate of Lebanon
- [Tell al-'Ubaid](/source/Tell_al-'Ubaid), a small [tell](/source/Tell_(archaeology)) site west of Ur, Iraq
- [21712 Obaid](/source/21712_Obaid) (1999 RL96), a Main-belt Asteroid

## Other

- [Ubaid period](/source/Ubaid_period), a Neolithic and Chalcolithic period in Mesopotamia

## See also

- [Abeed](/source/Abeed), an Arabic word meaning "servant" or "slave", used as an ethnic slur for Black people
- [Abyad (disambiguation)](/source/Abyad_(disambiguation)), Arabic word and name meaning 'white'. Some transliterations of *abyad* may overlap with those of *ubaid*. - [Wadi al-Abyad](/source/Wadi_al-Abyad) or al-Ubayyid, wadi (valley) in Iraq
- [Abadiyeh (disambiguation)](/source/Abadiyeh_(disambiguation))
- [Ubeidiya (disambiguation)](/source/Ubeidiya_(disambiguation))
- [Ubayd Allah](/source/Ubayd_Allah), for the many variants of that name, based upon this one and the Arabic word for "God"
- [Obadé](/source/Obad%C3%A9), town in Burkina Faso (name unrelated to the Arabic word)

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