Ḥassān
حسّان
Say it has-SAAN
Very good or handsome
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ḥ-s-n
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Hassan, Hasan
Meaning & source
Very good or handsome, if taken from ḥusn; Lisān notes that some derive it instead from ḥass.
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وحَسَّان: اسْمُ رَجُلٍ، إِن جَعَلْتَهُ فعَّالًا مِنَ الحُسْنِ أَجْرَيْتَه، وإِن جَعَلْتَه فَعْلَانَ مِنَ الحَسِّ وَهُوَ القَتْل أَو الحِسِّ بِالشَّيْءِ لَمْ تُجْرِه؛
Who carried this name
- Ḥassān ibn Thābit, the Prophet’s poet Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 1709 (vol. 2, p. 55)