Zubaydah
زُبَيْدة
Say it zu-BAY-dah
Soft and well cared for
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- z-b-d
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- Classical Arabic names
- Also spelled
- Zubaida, Zubaidah, Zobeida
Meaning & source
Lisān: a nickname given to a woman “for a softness and ease she had in her body”: Zubaydah, mother of the caliph al-Amīn.
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وزُبَيْدة: لَقَبُ امرأَة
Who carried this name
- Zubaydah bint Jaʿfar, wife of Hārūn al-Rashīd and mother of al-Amīn al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ (Muʾassasat al-Risālah ed.), vol. 10, p. 241 (entry 64)