Given name · Arabic
بشير
“to bring good news”
بشير (bašīr) is a masculine given name. It is used in Arabic.
ArabicWritten in Arabic script, read right to left. In English: bašīr.
Meaning & origin
What it means
بشير goes back to a word meaning “to bring good news.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
بشير’s family of names
In Arabic usage, بشير can be written in the Roman alphabet as bašīr.
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Spellings & scripts 1
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Across languages 5
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People named بشير
- Bashir AbdiBelgian long-distance runner of Somali descentborn 1989
- Bechir Ben SaïdTunisian association football playerborn 1992
- Bashir ibn Sa'dSahabah600–633
- Bashir BadrIndian poet of Urdu1935–2026
- Bashir VaraevRussian judokaborn 1964
- Bashir BabajanzadehIranian wrestlerborn 1989
- Bashir SafarogluSoviet actor (1925-1969)
- Bashir RameevSoviet computer scientist (1918-1994)
- Bashir al-NajafiIraqi Grand Ayatollahborn 1942
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