Abū Bakr
أبو بكر
Say it a-BOO BAKR
Father of the young camel
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- b-k-r
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- Classical Arabic names
- Also spelled
- Abubakr, Abubakar, Abu Bakr, Abubaker
Meaning & source
Father of the young camel: a kunyah (a name of the form “father of …”), from bakr, “the young one of camels” (this edition of Lisān vowels the word bikr).
A kunyah given today as a first name, after Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq.
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والبِكْرُ: الفَتِيُّ مِنَ الإِبل، وَقِيلَ: هُوَ الثَّنيُّ إِلى أَن يُجْذِعَ، وَقِيلَ: هُوَ ابْنُ الْمَخَاضِ إِلى أَن يُثْنِيَ، وَقِيلَ: هُوَ ابْنُ اللَّبُونِ، والحِقُّ والجَذَعُ، فإِذا أَثْنى فَهُوَ جَمَلٌ وَهِيَ نَاقَةٌ، وَهُوَ بَعِيرٌ حَتَّى
Who carried this name
- Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq, the Prophet’s ﷺ companion and the first caliph Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 9636 (vol. 7, p. 38)