Bassam
Bassam is an Arabic name and a given name roughly meaning "one who smiles". More accurately, it is the Arabic name "Basem" (often incorrectly written in English as Bassem) that translates to "one who smiles". Basem is the agent noun of the Arabic verb with the root ba-sa-ma, which means to smile. The name "Bassam" is the exaggerated form of the agent noun (Arabic: صيغه مبالغه), and would therefore roughly translates to "one who smiles profusely".
The name is most common in the Levant. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
- Bassam Abdullah bin Bushar al-Nahdi (born 1976), Yemeni wanted by the US FBI
- Bassam Abdel Majeed (born 1950), Syrian minister
- Bassam Abu Sharif (born 1946), Palestinian militant
- Bassam al-Fara (died 2006), Palestinian militant
- Bassam as-Salhi (born 1960), General Secretary of the Palestinian People's Party
- Bassam Al-Sarraj, Canadian aviation executive
- Bassam el-Shammaa (born 1962), Egyptian Egyptologist
- Bassam Al-Soukaria (1580–1667), Lebanese army commander
- Bassam Frangieh (born 1950), scholar of Arabic literature and culture
- Bassam Jamous, Syrian archaeologist
- Bassam Kousa (born 1963), Syrian actor
- Bassam Shakaa (born 1930), Palestinian politician
- Bassam Shamseldin, Yemeni novelist
- Bassam Tahhan, professor of Arabic literature
- Bassam Talhouni, Jordanian lawyer, academic and politician
- Bassam Tibi (born 1944), Syrian political scientist
Surname
- Ibn Bassam (died 1147), Moorish writer
- Rehab Bassam (born 1977), Egyptian blogger
- Steve Bassam, Baron Bassam of Brighton (born 1953), British politician
- Sulayman Al-Bassam, (born 1972), Anglo-Kuwaiti playwright
See also
 |
Look up bassam in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
- USC Bassam, Ivorian football club
- Bassem (disambiguation)
- Basim (disambiguation)
- Grand-Bassam
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 4/2/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.