Umayyad

noun

Umay·​yad ü-ˈmī-əd 

often attributive

: a member of a dynasty of caliphs based in Damascus that ruled from A.D. 661 to 750

Examples of Umayyad in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The 10th of Muharram is recorded as the date on which Ḥusayn and a group of his followers were killed in the Battle of Karbala (October 10, 680 ce), at the hands of an army sent by the Umayyad caliph Yazīd I. — Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 May 2026

By 720, the Umayyad Caliphate stretched from the Iberian Peninsula to what is now Afghanistan. — Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2026

Yazid was the second Umayyad caliph, which means deputy of God, and the ruler of the early Islamic empire. — Eric Lob, The Conversation, 2 Mar. 2026

But today’s traditionalist poets, who accompanied the liberation parade from Idlib to the Umayyad capital, get off on the cognates of salvage and salvation and on the prefixes of survival and revival. — Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026

As school and work grinded to a halt for a public holiday to mark the anniversary, people flocked to the main gathering place, Umayyad Square, to cheer and wave the new Syrian flag. — Tala Alrajjal, CNN Money, 8 Dec. 2025

At the city’s iconic Umayyad Square, which saw protests demanding democracy – and violent crackdowns by the Assad regime – hundreds of thousands of Syrians gathered with bullhorns, fireworks, drones, and flags of all sizes. — Taylor Luck, Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec. 2025

Official celebrations are planned for the central Umayyad Square in Damascus, which has been packed with jubilant gatherings ahead of December 8, and in other parts of the country. — Reuters, NBC news, 8 Dec. 2025

Word History

Etymology

Arabic (banū) umayya, Meccan kin group to which the Umayyad caliphs belonged

First Known Use

1758, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for Umayyad

• amphipod
• arthropod
• copepod
• decapod
• endopod
• escalade
• esplanade
• exopod
• gastropod
• goldenrod
• isopod
• ostracod