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أَسْعَد
RomanisationALA-LC: Asʻad
PronunciationArabic: [ˈʔasʕad]
Gendermale
Language(s)Arabic
Origin
Meaningmore/most fortunate, happier/happiest, luckier/luckiest
Other names
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".[1][2][3] It also exists as a surname.

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People with the surname

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References

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  1. ^ Albert de Biberstein Kazimirski. Dictionnaire arabe-français. Vol. 2. p. 1091, column a.
  2. ^ Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), "أسعد", in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 42
  3. ^ Wehr, Hans (1979), "اسعد", in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, page 479