Rashid (name) explained
| Rashid |
| Pronunciation: | pronounced as /ar/ (راشد)
pronounced as /ar/ (رشيد) |
| Gender: | Male |
| Meaning: | "rightly guided" |
| Origin: | Arabic |
| Related Names: | Rashida, Arshad |
| Alternative Spelling: | Rāshid: Raashid, Rachid, Rashed
Rashīd: Rachid, Rasheed, Reşit (Turkish)
Rəşid (Azeri)
Räşit (Tatar / Bashkort) |
Rashid is the transliteration of two male given names:Arabic: راشد and Arabic: رشيد (also spelled Rasheed), both meaning 'rightly guided', 'having the true faith'. It also means 'the high one'.
In Islamic tradition, al-Rashid is one of the 99 names of Allah, and thus as a personal name is often used with the word abd (عبد الرشيد, ʻAbd al-Rashīd; "servant of the rightly guided").[1]
Given name
- Rashid III ibn Ahmad Al Mu'alla, former ruler of Umm al-Quwain, part of the United Arab Emirates
- Rashid Ali, Danish cricketer
- Rashid Ali, Singer, Musician and composer
- Rashied Ali, American avant-garde jazz drummer
- Raashid Alvi, Indian politician
- Rachid Arma, Moroccan footballer
- Rashid Baz, Lebanese convicted murderer
- Rashid Behbudov, Azerbaijani singer
- Rachid Bouaita (born 1974), French boxer
- Rashed Al Hooti, Bahraini footballer
- Rashid Khalidi, Palestinian-American historian
- Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa, Bahraini royal
- Räshid Hakimsan, Finnish Tatar hockey player
- Rashid Khan (actor), Indian actor
- Rashid Khan (cricketer), Afghan cricketer
- Rashid Khan (Pakistani cricketer), Pakistani cricketer
- Rashid Khan (golfer), Indian golfer
- Rashid Khan (musician), Indian musician
- Rashid Khan Gaplanov, Azerbaijani statesman
- Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco
- Al-Rashid of Morocco, Sultan of Morocco from 1666 to 1672
- Rashid Latif, Pakistani cricket player
- Rashid Mahazi, Australian footballer
- Rashid Al Marikhi, Sufi shaikh in Bahrain
- Rasheed Muhammad, Pakistani tissue seller and murderer
- Rashid Nezhmetdinov, Soviet chess player
- Rashid Nurgaliyev, Russian military officer
- Rashid Ramzi, Moroccan athlete
- Rashid Rana, Pakistani visual artist
- Rashid Rauf, alleged Al-Qaeda operative
- Rashid Sarwar, Scottish footballer
- Rashid Shaheed (born 1998), American football player
- Rashid Taha, French-Algerian rock-rai musician and activist
- Rasheed Wallace, American basketball player
- Rashid Yasemi, Iranian poet
- Rachid Yazami, French-Moroccan scientist known for his work on lithium batteries
- Brother Rachid
Surname
- Abdullah Rasheed
- Adil Rashid, English cricketer
- Shaun Rashid, English cricketer
- Ahmad Baba Rachid, Algerian musician
- Ahmed Rashid, Pakistani author and former revolutionary
- Amin Abu Rashid, Palestinian Dutch Hamas leader
- Ashraf Rashid, Pakistani general
- Harun al-Rashid, Caliph of Baghdad (lived 763-809)
- Al-Rashid (12th century), Caliph of Baghdad (ruled 1135–1136)
- Kameelah Janan Rasheed, American writer
- Kamran Rasheed, Pakistani cricketer
- Karim Rashid, American industrial designer
- Khalid Rashid, Pakistani Guantanamo detainee
- Khalida Rashid Khan, first female judge in the Superior Judiciary of Pakistan
- Leila Rachid, Paraguayan diplomat
- Mamunur Rashid, Bangladeshi actor, director, scriptwriter
- Mohamed Al Rashed, Sudanese footballer
- Mohammad Rashed, Kuwaiti footballer
- Mohammad Rashid, Sierra Leonean footballer
- Muhammad Abdul Rashid, Pakistani hockey player (b. 1941)
- Muhammad Rashid (field hockey), recent Pakistani hockey player
- Richard Rashid, American computer science researcher
- Roger Rasheed, Australian tennis coach and commentator
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: Abd al-Rashid .
