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abu bakr

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 2.87 in modern English

Syllables
abu bakr
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A senior companion, the closest friend, and, through the marriage of his daughter Aisha, the father-in-law of Muhammad, recognized in Sunni Islam as the first of Muhammad's rightly-guided successors (the Rashidun caliphs).

name

A male given name from Arabic.

Etymology

Transliteration of Arabic أَبُو بَكْر (ʔabū bakr, literally “father of a young camel; father of a person named Bakr”).

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

Abubakar (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

Umar Uthman Ali

Questions

What does abu bakr mean?
A senior companion, the closest friend, and, through the marriage of his daughter Aisha, the father-in-law of Muhammad, recognized in Sunni Islam as the first of Muhammad's rightly-guided successors (the Rashidun caliphs).
Where does abu bakr come from?
Transliteration of Arabic أَبُو بَكْر (ʔabū bakr, literally “father of a young camel; father of a person named Bakr”).

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