Hassan

name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of Hasan. alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A male given name from Arabic.
  3. 3
    A Jewish surname from Hebrew.
  4. 4
    A surname from Irish.
  5. 5
    A district and city in Karnataka, India.

Synonyms

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hasan bin alihasan bin ali

Example

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""What I saw in his lungs is nothing that I've ever seen before, and I've been doing lung transplants for 20 years," said Hassan Nemeh, M.D., surgical director of the Thoracic Organ Transplant System at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Arabic حَسَن (ḥasan, “fine, good, good-looking, handsome, manly; strong”).

Etymology 2

From Arabic حَسَّان (ḥassān, “doer of good”).

Etymology 3

From Hebrew חַזָּן (khazán, “cantor”), possibly via Ladino hassan.

Etymology 4

Anglicized form of Irish Ó hOsáin.

Etymology 5

From the nearby temple.

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Hassans Walls

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