Hamid

Arabic: [ħaˈmiːd]
Urdu: [ɦɛˈmiːd̪]GenderMaleOriginWord/nameArabicMeaningPraiseworthyOther namesVariant form(s)Hamed, HameedRelated namesHamad, Hamit

Hamid refers to two different but related Arabic given names, both of which come from the Arabic triconsonantal root of Ḥ-M-D (ح-م-د):

  1. Ḥāmed (Arabic: حَامِد ḥāmid) also spelled Haamed, Hamid or Hamed, and in Turkish Hamit; it means "lauder" or "one who praises".[1][2]
  2. Ḥamīd (Arabic: حَمِيد ḥamīd) also spelled Hamid, or Hameed, in Turkish is Hamit, and in Azeri is Həmid or Һәмид; it means "lauded" or "praiseworthy".

Given name

Hamid

  • Hamid Ahmadi (historian) (b. 1945), Iranian historian
  • Hamid Ahmadi (futsal) (b. 1988), Iranian futsal player
  • Hamid Ahmadieh, Iranian ophthalmologist and medical scientist
  • Hamid Al Shaeri (b. 1961), Egyptian-Libyan singer, songwriter, and musician
  • Hamid Arasly (1902–1983), Azeri and Soviet scientist
  • Hamid Arzulu (b. 1937), Azerbaijani poet and writer
  • Hamid Idris Awate (1910–1962), Eritrean guerrilla commander
  • Hamid Berhili (b. 1964), Moroccan boxer
  • Hamid Mahmood Butt, Pakistani ophthalmologist
  • Hamid Chitchian (b. c. 1957), Iranian politician
  • Hamid Drake (b. 1955), American musician
  • Hamid Etemad (b. 1945), Iranian professor
  • Hamid Frangieh (1907–1981), Lebanese politician
  • Hamid Gabbay (b. c. 1943), Iranian-born American architect
  • Hamid Ghandehari, Iranian-American drug chemist
  • Hamid Gul (1936–2015), Pakistani politician
  • Hamid Guska (b. 1953), head coach of Bosnian national boxing team
  • Hamid Hassani (b. 1968), Iranian lexicographer
  • Hamid Ismailov (b. 1954), Uzbek journalist
  • Hamid Karzai (b. 1957), President of Afghanistan from 2002 to 2014
  • Hamid Hussain Musavi, Indian scholar
  • Hamid Notghi (1920–1999), Iranian Azeri poet, writer, author, university professor
  • Hamid Olimjon (1909–1944), Uzbek poet and scholar
  • Hamid Ekrem Šahinović (1879/1882–1936), Bosnian writer and dramatist
  • Hamid Naderi Yeganeh (b. 1990), Iranian mathematical artist

Hamed / Hameed

Middle name

Surname

See also

  • Abu Hamid Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Al-Ghazali Persian theologian, philosopher, jurist
  • Al Hamed, town in Egypt near Rosetta
  • Hameed a village in Hazro Tehsil, Punjab, Pakistan
  • Abdul Hamid
  • Hamid al-Din (disambiguation)
  • Hamidids, 14th century Turkic dynasty
  • Hamit
  • Hamidah (disambiguation)

References

  1. ^ Salahuddin Ahmed (1999). A Dictionary of Muslim Names. London: Hurst & Company.
  2. ^ S. A. Rahman (2001). A Dictionary of Muslim Names. New Delhi: Goodword Books.
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