Badr

Badr (بدر) is Arabic for "full moon". It can mean:

Places

• Battle of Badr, a key battle in the early days of Islam
• Hala-'l Badr, a volcano in Saudi Arabia
• Sheikh Badr, a depopulated village in Jerusalem
• Ash-Shaykh Badr, a city in Syria
• Badr, Saudi Arabia, a city in Saudi Arabia
• Badr, Iran, a village in Iran
• Badr, Kerman, a village in Iran
• Badr Rural District (disambiguation), administrative subdivisions of Iran
• Badr, Libya, a town in Libya

Given name

• Badr al-Din, a compound form often used as a man's name
• Badr Al-Dhalaan, a student from Mississauga and local chess champion.
• Badr al-Mu'tadidi (died 912), commander-in-chief of the Abbasid Caliphate under al-Mu'tadid
• Badr al-Jamali (died 1094), general and de facto ruler of the Fatimid Caliphate
• Badr Jafar, Emerati businessman
• Badr El Kaddouri (born 1981), a Moroccan footballer
• Badr Hari (born 1984), a Moroccan-Dutch kickboxer
• Muhammad al-Badr (1926−1996), the last king of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen
• Badr bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, a senior member of the Saudi royal family
• Badroulbadour (more properly Badr ul-budūr), fairy tale character, the Princess Aladdin wants to marry. The final element of the name is the plural form of badr, the whole meaning "Full Moon of Full Moons".
• Badr, Algamal, A Yemeni in Dearborn, Michigan.

Surname

• Bashir Badr (born 1945), an Indian Urdu poet
• Hamed Badr (born 1983), a Libyan footballer
• Jamaluddin Badr, an Afghan politician
• Kamal Badr, a Lebanese academic
• Zaki Badr (1926–1997), Egyptian politician

Other

• Operation Badr (disambiguation), any of four war operations
• Badr Airlines, based in Khartoum, Sudan
• Badr Organization, a political party in Iraq
• Badr-1, a Pakistani satellite launched in 1990
• Badr-4, an ArabSat satellite
• Badr-6, an ArabSat satellite
• Badr-B or Badr-2, a Pakistani satellite launched in 2001

See also

• Arabic name
• All pages beginning with "Badr"
• Bader
• Baader
• Al-Badr