title: Al-Ubaid
text: # Al-Ubaid
  
  Ubaid, Ebeid, Obeid, Ubayd, Ubayyid, Ubaidi, the Americanized Obade, etc., used with or without the article Al- or El-, are all romanizations of أبيض or عبید, an Arabic word or name meaning 'white' (the former) or the diminutive form of ʿabd, meaning 'servant' or 'slave' (the latter). The latter is often understood as the shortened form of Ubayd Allah, meaning "small/humble servant of God".
  
  Ubeidiya: by adding the suffix -iya (also in different spellings), the meaning becomes "place of..." (Ubaid, 'Ubayd, etc.)
  
  ## People
  
  The name as such in various spellings
  
  * Ebeid, common Levantine or Egyptian spelling
  * Obaid (name)
  * Obeid (name)
  * Ubayd (name)
  * Ubaydul Haq (disambiguation)
  
  Tribes and individuals
  
  * Al-Ubaid (tribe), an Arab tribe
  * Elijah Obade (born 1991), American-Lebanese basketball player
  
  ## Places
  
  * El-Obeid, a city in Sudan
  * El Obeid Airport, Sudan
  * Al Ubaidi, a town in Iraq
  * Beit Obeid, or Beit Abid, a village in Zgharta District, in the Northern Governorate of Lebanon
  * Tell al-'Ubaid, a small tell site west of Ur, Iraq
  * 21712 Obaid (1999 RL96), a Main-belt Asteroid
  
  ## Other
  
  * Ubaid period, a Neolithic and Chalcolithic period in Mesopotamia
  