Abu Bakr

English

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Abu Bakr

  2. (Islam) 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).
  3. A male given name from Arabic.

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