Proper Name guide

Abu Bakr

name · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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name

Meaning 1

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).

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Topics: Islam, lifestyle, religion

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name

Meaning 2

A male given name from Arabic.

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History

Etymology

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

Across languages

Translations

40 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: Aboe Bakr — Translations
  • Albanian: Ebu Bekri — Translations
  • Arabic: أَبُو بَكْر (ʔabū bakr) — Translations
  • Arabic: ابو بكر — Translations
  • Arabic: بوبكر — Translations
  • Armenian: Աբու Բաքր (Abu Bakʻr) — Translations
  • Azerbaijani: Əbu Bəkr — Translations
  • Banjarese: Abu Bakar — Translations
  • Bashkir: Әбү Бәкер (Əbü Bəker) — Translations
  • Belarusian: Абу Бакр (Abu Bakr) — Translations
  • Bengali: আবু বকর (abu bokor) — Translations
  • Breton: Abou Bakr — Translations
  • Bulgarian: Абу Бакр (Abu Bakr) — Translations
  • Chinese Cantonese: 阿布伯克爾 /阿布伯克尔 — Translations
  • Chinese Mandarin: 阿布·伯克尔 — Translations
  • Wu Chinese: 阿布·伯克尔 — Translations
  • Dargwa: Абакар (Abakar) — Translations
  • Dhivehi: އަބޫބަކުރު (abūbakuru) — Translations
  • Dutch: Aboe Bakr — Translations
  • Greek: Αμπού Μπακρ (Ampoú Bakr) — Translations
  • Hausa: Abubakar — Translations
  • Hebrew: אבו בכר — Translations
  • Hindi: अबू बकर (abū bakar) — Translations
  • Japanese: アブー・バクル — Translations
  • Javanese: Abu Bakar — Translations
  • Korean: 아부 바크르 (abu bakeureu) — Translations
  • Central Kurdish: ئەبووبەکر (ebûbekir) — Translations
  • Kyrgyz: Абубакр (Abubakr) — Translations
  • Latin: Abubacer — Translations
  • Latvian: Abū Bekrs — Translations
  • Lithuanian: Abu Bakras — Translations
  • Luxembourgish: Abu Bekr — Translations
  • Marathi: अबू बक्र (abū bakra) — Translations
  • Moroccan Amazigh: ⴰⴱⵓ ⴱⴰⴽⵔ (abu bakr) — Translations
  • N'Ko: ߊߓߎߓߞߊߙ — Translations
  • Portuguese: Abacar — Translations
  • Punjabi: ਅਬੂ ਬਕਰ (abū bakar) — Translations
  • Sylheti: ꠀꠛꠥ ꠛꠇꠞ (abu boxor) — Translations
  • Turkish: Ebû Bekir — Translations
  • Uyghur: ئەبۇبەكرى (ebubekri) — Translations