حَسَّان Hassan in Arabic
حَسَّان is how you say “Hassan” in Arabic.
Root ح س ن ḥ-s-n. proper noun (personal name). ḥassān.
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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'.
Example sentence
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.
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How it is used
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
- حُسْنٌ goodness, beauty — the verbal noun of ḥasuna (to be good/beautiful)
- حَسَنٌ good, goodly, comely, pleasing
- أَحْسَنُ better, best; more/most good or beautiful (elative form)
- إِحْسَانٌ doing good, benevolence, excellence — verbal noun of aḥsana
- حُسْنَى goodness — an alternative verbal-noun form of the same verb
- تَحْسِينٌ beautifying, 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).
Related words
Definitions summarised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).