Ubaid

adjective

üˈbād,

-bīd

variants or al ʽUbaid

¦alə¦b-

: of or relating to an early Bronze Age culture in Mesopotamia prior to 3000 b.c.

Word History

Etymology

from al ʽUbaid (Tell el-Obeid), locality in southern Iraq

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