What does "ayyubid" mean?

A member of the Ayyubid dynasty.

Ayyubid

Common synonyms include: ayyubid house, ayyubid noble, ayyubid prince, ayyubid regime, ayyubid ruler, dynastic.

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Of or pertaining to the Ayyubid dynasty: a Sunni Muslim dynasty of Kurdish origin founded by Saladin and centred in Egypt. historical, not-comparable

From Egyptian Arabic الأيوبيون, from Ayyub (“the name of Saladin's father”) + -id (see أيوب).