Bujaid (Name)

Bujaid (transliteration: Bujayd, Arabic: بجيد) is an Arabic name for boys that is the diminutive form of either bajd, which means “a group or company of people”¹, or bajad, which means “a group of 100 or more horses”.² Bujaid may also be a diminutive of Abjad, which was the name of one of the pre-Islamic kings of Yemen. Abjad is a non-Arabic word whose original meaning is not known, but which came to be used to mean “alphabet”.³⁴

Bujaid is also spelled Bujayd, Bojaid and Bojayd.

There is one Companion of the Prophet Muhammad named Bujaid:

• Bujaid bin Imran al-Khuza`i بجيد بن عمران الخزاعي

Below is the name Bujaid written in Arabic naskh script:

Below is the name Bujaid written in Arabic kufi script:

1. Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876), بجد.
2. Murtaḍa al-Zabīdī, Tāj al-ʿArūs fī Jawāhir al-Qamūs (d. 1790 CE), بجد.
3. Edward William Lane, Ibid.
4. Murtaḍa al-Zabīdī, Ibid.