Bādiyah
بادية
Say it BAA-di-yah
The open desert
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- b-d-w
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Badia, Badiya, Badiyah
Meaning & source
The open desert, as against settled land (Lisān: badw and bādiyah are the opposite of ḥaḍar).
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والبَدْوُ والبَادِيَةُ والبَدَاةُ والبَدَاوَة والبِدَاوَةُ: خِلَافُ الحَضَر
Who carried this name
- Bādiyah bint Ghaylān al-Thaqafiyyah, who became Muslim with her father and narrated Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 10914 (vol. 8, p. 45)