| Romanisation | ALA-LC: Asʻad |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | Arabic: [ˈʔasʕad] |
| Gender | male |
| Language(s) | Arabic |
| Origin | |
| Meaning | more/most fortunate, happier/happiest, luckier/luckiest |
| Other names | |
| Variant form(s) | Askhat (Асхат) (Kazakh) |
| Anglicisation(s) | Asaad, Assaad, Assad, Assadi |
As'ad (Arabic: أَسْعَد / ALA-LC: Asʻad, Arabic pronunciation: [ˈʔasʕad]), informally transcribed as Asaad or Assaad, is an Arabic male given name derived from the elative degree of the adjective سَعِيد saʿīd, thus meaning "more/most fortunate, happier/happiest, luckier/luckiest". It also exists as a surname.
People with the given name
- As'ad Abu Karib, king of Himyar from 390–440
- As'ad ibn Zurara, companion of Muhammad
- As'ad Pasha al-Azm
- As'ad Syamsul Arifin
- As'ad Shukeiri
- As'ad Adib Bayudh
- As'ad AbuKhalil
- Asaad Kelada
- Assaad Bouab
- Assaad W. Razzouk
- Assaad Taha
- Assaad Seif
- Assaad Feddah
- Assaad Chaftari
- Assaad Andraos
- Assaad Hardan
People with the surname
- Ahmad El-Assaad
- Kamel Asaad
- Khaled al-Asaad, prominent Syrian archaeologist and historian killed by ISIS
- Man Asaad
- Nizar Assaad
- Lucas Assadi
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References
- Albert de Biberstein Kazimirski. Dictionnaire arabe-français. Vol. 2. p. 1091, column a.
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), "أسعد", in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 42
- Wehr, Hans (1979), "اسعد", in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, page 479