Badr Explained

Badr (Arabic: بدر) as a given name below is an Arabic masculine and feminine name given to the "full moon on its fourteenth night" or the ecclesiastical full moon.Badr may refer to:

Places

• Badr, Egypt, a city
• Badr, Libya, a town in Libya
• Badr, Saudi Arabia, a city in Saudi Arabia
  • Battle of Badr, a battle in the early days of Islam near the present-day city
• Badr Rural District (disambiguation), various administrative subdivisions of Iran
• Ash-Shaykh Badr, a city in Syria
• Hala-'l Badr, a volcano in Saudi Arabia
• Sheikh Badr, a depopulated village in Jerusalem

People

• Badr (name)

Military

• Operation Badr (disambiguation), any of four war operations
• Badr-1 (rocket), Yemeni rocket artillery system
• Badr-2000, Iraqi proposed ballistic missile

Other

• Badr Airlines, based in Khartoum, Sudan
• Badr Organization, a political party in Iraq
• Badr (satellite), a series of satellites operated by Pakistan, including:
  • Badr-1, launched in 1990
  • Badr-B or Badr-2, launched in 2001
• Badr-4, an ArabSat satellite
• Badr-6, an ArabSat satellite

See also

• • Bader, a surname
• Baader, a surname
• Al-Badr (disambiguation)
• Badri (disambiguation)