Arbad (Name)

Aqrab (transliteration: Arbad, Arabic: أربد) is an ancient Arabian name for boys that means “puff adder” (a type of venomous snake)¹². Arbad also means “something that has the color of dust”.³

There are four Companions of the Prophet Muhammad named Arbad:

• Arbad bin Jubair أربد بن جبير
• Arbad bin Abdullah al-Bajali أرْبَد بن عبد الله البَجَلي
• Arbad bin Makhshi أربد بن مخشي
• Arbad (servant of the Prophet) أربد خادم رسول الله صلى عليه وسلم

Below is the name Arbad written in Arabic naskh script:

Below is the name Arbad written in Arabic kufi script:

1. Al-Muheet fil Lughah by al-Sahib bin Abbad (d. c. 995 CE), entry for ربد.
2. Al-Muhkam wal Muheet al-Aadham by Ibn Seedah al-Mursi (d. 1066 CE), entry for ربد.
3. Asaas al-Balaaghah by al-Zamakhshari (d. 1143 CE), entry for ربد.