As'ad Explained

Arabic: أَسْعَد
Pronunciation:	pronounced as /ar/
Gender:	male
Meaning:	more/most fortunate, happier/happiest, luckier/luckiest
Language:	Arabic
Anglicisation:	Asaad, Assaad, Assad, Assadi

As'ad (Arabic: أَسْعَد /, pronounced as /ar/), informally transcribed as Asaad or Assaad, is an Arabic male given name derived from the elative degree of the adjective Arabic: سَعِيد, thus meaning "more/most fortunate, happier/happiest, luckier/luckiest".^{[1] [2] [3]} 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

Notes and References

1. Book: Albert de Biberstein Kazimirski. Dictionnaire arabe-français. 2. 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