Zubayd
زبيد
Say it zu-BAYD
Cream, the best part
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- z-b-d
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The early generations
- Also spelled
- Zubaid, Zubayd, Zübeyd
Meaning & source
A diminutive of zubd, the cream drawn from milk, its purest part (Ibn Sīdah, in Lisān).
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ابْنُ سِيدَهْ: الزُّبْدُ، بِالضَّمِّ، خُلَاصَةُ اللَّبَنِ، وَاحِدَتُهُ زُبْدَة يَذْهَبُ بِذَلِكَ إِلى الطَّائِفَةِ، والزُّبْدة أَخص مِنَ الزُّبْدِ؛
Who carried this name
- Zubayd ibn al-Ḥārith al-Yāmī of Kufa al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ, no. 141 (vol. 5, p. 296)