Arabic masculine given name
Hassan or Hasan (Arabic: حسن Ḥasan) is an Arabic masculine given name in the Muslim world.
As a surname, Hassan may be Arabic, Irish, Scottish, or Jewish (Sephardic and Mizrahic) (see Hassan (surname)).[1][2]
Etymology and spelling
The name Hassan in Arabic means 'handsome' or 'good', or 'benefactor'.
There are two different Arabic names that are both romanized with the spelling "Hassan". However, they are pronounced differently, and in Arabic script spelled differently.
- The more common name حَسَن Ḥasan (as in the name of the Islamic prophet Muhammad's grandson Hasan ibn Ali),[3] coming from the Arabic language triconsonantal root Ḥ-S-N, has two short vowels and a single /s/. Its meaning is 'the good' or 'the handsome'. Its usual form in Classical Arabic is الحسن al-Ḥasan, incorporating the definite article al-, which may be omitted in modern Arabic names.
- The name حَسَّان Ḥassān, which comes from the same Arabic root, has a long vowel and a doubled /sː/. Its meaning is 'doer of good' or 'benefactor'. It is not used with the definite article in Classical Arabic.
In the romanized spelling Hassan, it is not possible to distinguish which of the two names is intended. The ambiguity can be removed by romanizing the former name as Hasan with a single s, and reserving the spelling Hassan with doubled s for the latter name.
King al-Ḥasan of Morocco (officially romanized as Hassan, with a double ss, due to the influence of French orthography) is an example of the former. The early Islamic poet Ḥassān ibn Thābit is an example of the latter. In the original Arabic, the two different names are easily distinguished.
- Depending on language and region, spelling variations
Hassan or Hasan is an Arabic given name and through the influence of Arabic, languages spoken by Muslims such as Persian, Kazakh, Kurdish, Urdu, Indonesian, Malay, Turkish, Uyghur, Turkmen, Somali, Swahili, Berber, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar, Tatar, Bosnian, Albanian, Bengali, etc. created their own spelling variations.
Therefore, depending on language and region, spelling variations include Hasan, Hassen, Hasson, Hassin, Hassine, Hacen, Hasen, Hesen, Hasin, Hassa, Hess, Cassin, Chazan, Chasson, Chason, Khassan, Khasan, Chessar, Casan, Casen, Hasso, Lassana, Alassane, Lacen, Lasanah, Assan, Asan, or Haasan (Haasaan, Hasaan, Hassaan).
- List of variant spellings
- In Arabic transcription: حسن (Hasan), حسان (Hassan)
- In Turkish: Hasan
- In Ottoman Turkish: حسن (Hasan)
- In Tatar: Хәсән (Xäsän / Xəsən)
- In Persian: حسن (Hasan), حسان (Hassan)
- In Bosnian: Hasan or Haso
- In Albanian: Hasan
- In Azerbaijan: Həsən,
- In Kurdish: حەسەن (Hesen), حەسان (Hessan)
- In Kazakh: Қасен (Qasen), Хасен (Hasen or Khassen), Asan or Äsem
- In Somali: Xasan
- In Bengali: হাসান (Hāsān)
- In Sub-Saharan Africa: Lassana, Alassane and Lacen, derived from al-Hassan.
- In French: Hassan, Hassen or Hacen
- In Spanish: Hassan, Hassán, Hacen, Hacén, Jassan, Jassán, Jasan or Jasán
- In Italian: Hassan
- In Russian transcription: Хасан (Hasan), Хассан (Hassan), Хассен (Hassen), Хэссан (Hessan), Гасан (Gasan)
- In Croatian or Serbian or Montenegrin: Aсан (Asan) or Хасан (Hasan)
- In Finnish: Hasan
- In Chinese: 哈桑/哈山 (Hā Sāng/Hā Shān)
- In Korean: 하산 (Hasan)
