Badra (Name)

Badra (transliteration: Badra, Arabic: بدرة) is an ancient Arabian name for boys that means “quick”, “sharp” (when describing someone’s eyes).¹ It also refers to a leather bag in which water or coins is kept,², and because of this it developed the meaning of “(a bag containing) ten thousand dirhams”.³

There is one Companion of the Prophet Muhammad named Badra:

• Badra Abu Malik بدرة أبو مالك

Below is the name Badra written in Arabic naskh script:

Below is the name Badra written in Arabic kufi script:

1. Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876), بدر.
2. Ibn Sīda al-Mursī, Al-Muḥkam wa-l-Muḥīṭ al-Aʿẓam (d. 1066 CE), بدر.
3. Zayn al-Dīn al-Razī, Mukhtār al-Ṣiḥāḥ (d. 1266 CE), بدر.