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.
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
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