As'ad

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{{Infobox given name

|name={{lang|ar|أَسْعَد}}

|romanisation={{ALA-LC|ar|Asʻad}}

| pronunciation = {{IPA|ar|ˈʔasʕad|lang}}

| gender = male

| meaning = more/most fortunate, happier/happiest, luckier/luckiest

| language = Arabic

| anglicisation = Asaad, Assaad, Assad, Assadi

| variant =Askhat ({{lang|kk|Асхат}}) (Kazakh)

}}

As'ad ({{langx|ar|أَسْعَد}} / {{ALA-LC|ar|Asʻad}}, {{IPA|ar|ˈʔasʕad}}), informally transcribed as Asaad or Assaad, is an Arabic male given name derived from the elative degree of the adjective {{lang|ar|سَعِيد}} {{Transliteration|ar|saʿīd}}, thus meaning "more/most fortunate, happier/happiest, luckier/luckiest".{{cite book|author=Albert de Biberstein Kazimirski|title=Dictionnaire arabe-français|volume=2|page=1091, column a}}Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), "أسعد", in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 42Wehr, Hans (1979), "اسعد", in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, page 479 It also exists as a surname.

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