Bashar

//bəˈʃɑː(ɹ)// name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A male given name from Arabic.

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"I don't know who is the biggest asshole, whether it's Vladimir Putin or Bashar al-Assad: one murders journalists and causes massacres in Chechnya and Georgia, the other tortures children. How can their wives even stand them?"

Etymology

From Arabic بَشَّار (baššār).

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