Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Indonesian, Albanian, Bosnian
Other Scripts: حسن(Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Shahmukhi) হাসান(Bengali)
Pronounced: HA-san(Arabic) ha-SAN(Persian)
Means
"handsome" in Arabic, from the root
حسن (hasuna) meaning "to be beautiful, to be good". Hasan was the son of
Ali and the grandson of the Prophet
Muhammad. He was poisoned by one of his wives and is regarded as a martyr by Shia Muslims. This was also the name of two kings of Morocco. It is sometimes transcribed as
Hassan, though this is a distinct name in Arabic.