"Traditional Arabic name"
The name Assad is commonly a male name from the "Arabic" origin.
Assad is an Arabic name taken from the Arabic word asad, which means lion. It is one of several Latin-alphabet spellings of the same name, alongside Asad, and it is used as a given name as well as a family name in Arabic-speaking countries. The root is the Semitic triliteral '-s-d, which carries the lion meaning in Arabic and in related languages such as Hebrew, where the same root gives aryeh's cognates in other Semitic tongues.
The pronunciation of Assad is uh-SAHD.
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