Abeed

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Abeed or abīd (عبيد, plural of ʿabd, عبد) is an Arabic word meaning "servant" or "slave". Historically, abeed did not necessarily indicate ethnicity or skin color. Medieval sources applied the term to slaves of different origins, including Slavs and Turks. The term and related forms were also used outside Arabic. In Ottoman Turkish, for example, abd and abd-i memlûk were among the terms used for male slaves. However, in some Arabic dialects, abeed developed racialized usages, pejoratively referring to Black people or descendants of slaves from Arab slave trades.

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