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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Arabic : from a distinguishing epithet, aswad ‘black’.
  • Arabic : from a personal name based on Arabic as‛ad ‘happier’, ‘luckier’, comparative of the adjective sa‛īd ‘happy’ (see Saeed).

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