Hassan (given name) explained

Hassan
حسن
Pronunciation:pronounced as /ar/
Gender:Male
Meaning:handsome, good, benefactor
Language:Arabic
Variant Forms:al-Ḥasan
Related Names:Ḥassān
Hussein
Alassane
Lassana
Mohsen

Hassan or Hasan (Arabic: حسن) is an Arabic masculine given name in the Muslim world. As a surname, Hassan may be Arabic, Irish, Scottish, or Jewish (Sephardic and Mizrahic) (see Hassan (surname)).[1] [2]

Etymology and spelling

The name Hassan in Arabic means 'handsome' or 'good', or 'benefactor'.

There are two different Arabic names that are both romanized with the spelling "Hassan". However, they are pronounced differently, and in Arabic script spelled differently.

In the romanized spelling Hassan, it is not possible to distinguish which of the two names is intended. The ambiguity can be removed by romanizing the former name as Hasan with a single s, and reserving the spelling Hassan with doubled s for the latter name.

King al-Ḥasan of Morocco (officially romanized as Hassan, with a double ss, due to the influence of French orthography) is an example of the former. The early Islamic poet Ḥassān ibn Thābit is an example of the latter. In the original Arabic, the two different names are easily distinguished.

Depending on language and region, spelling variations Hassan or Hasan is an Arabic given name and through the influence of Arabic, languages spoken by Muslims such as Persian, Kazakh, Kurdish, Urdu, Indonesian, Malay, Turkish, Uyghur, Turkmen, Somali, Swahili, Berber, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar, Tatar, Bosnian, Albanian, Bengali, etc. created their own spelling variations.

Therefore, depending on language and region, spelling variations include Hasan, Hassen, Hasson, Hassin, Hassine, Hacen, Hasen, Hesen, Hasin, Hassa, Hess, Cassin, Chazan, Chasson, Chason, Khassan, Khasan, Chessar, Casan, Casen, Hasso, Lassana, Alassane, Lacen, Lasanah, Assan, Asan, or Haasan (Haasaan, Hasaan, Hassaan).

List of variant spellings

People

Hacine

Hasan

Hasson

Hassan

Middle name

Hassane

Middle name

Hasaan

Hassanal

Hassen

Khasan

Khassan

Fictional characters

See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: Surnames of Ireland. Edward Neafsey. lrish Roots Cafe. 2002. 978-0-940134-9 7-3.
  2. avotaynu.com: Guidebook for Sephardic and Oriental Genealogical Sources in Israel
  3. Book: Schimmel, Annemarie . Islamic names . registration . 35 . 1989.
  4. https://www.timeout.com/newyork/things-to-do/hardest-harry-potter-trivia-questions