Arabic vocabulary
حَسَّانHassan in Arabic
حَسَّان is how you say “Hassan” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Root ح س ن (ḥ-s-n)proper noun (personal name)Pronounced ḥassān
Meaning of Hassan in Arabic
- Hassan (a masculine given name) — A traditional Arabic personal name built on the root ḥ-s-n, whose core sense — attested throughout the root's verb forms — is 'being good, goodly, beautiful, comely, or pleasing'.
Ḥassān is a personal name from the root ḥ-s-n, whose basic sense runs through the whole family: to be or become good, goodly, beautiful, or pleasing, and by extension to do good, to beautify something, or to regard something favorably. The same root underlies everyday ethical and religious vocabulary, such as ḥasan ("good") and iḥsān ("doing good, excellence").
Words from the same root
- حُسْنٌgoodness, beauty — the verbal noun of ḥasuna (to be good/beautiful)
- حَسَنٌgood, goodly, comely, pleasing
- أَحْسَنُbetter, best; more/most good or beautiful (elative form)
- إِحْسَانٌdoing good, benevolence, excellence — verbal noun of aḥsana
- حُسْنَىgoodness — an alternative verbal-noun form of the same verb
- تَحْسِينٌbeautifying, embellishing, improving — verbal noun of ḥassana
Common questions
- How do you say "Hassan" in Arabic?
- حَسَّان (ḥassān).
- What root does the name Hassan come from, and what does it mean?
- It comes from the root ḥ-s-n (ح س ن), whose core meaning is 'goodness, beauty, comeliness' — the same root behind words like ḥusn (beauty) and iḥsān (doing good).
Definitions synthesised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).
Example sentences
كما ملأ ترجمة هشام بن حسان بما يروى عن الحسن،
As he filled the biography of Hisham ibn Hassan with what is narrated by al-Hasan,
حَسَّانَ — Hassan. The father's name closing the 'son of' link, in the owned-by ending. It completes the full identification of the man whose biography is meant.
From: Gaps in a Collection of Pious Lives →
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