Bashar (Name)

Bashar (transliteration: Bashshār, Arabic: بشّار) is an Arabic name for boys that means “bringer of good news”, “bringer of good tidings”, “announcer of joyful news”.¹²³

Bashar is also spelled Bashaar.

There is one Companion of the Prophet Muhammad named Bashar:

• Bashaar bin Adi bin Amr بشار بن عدي بن عمر

Below is the name Bashar written in Arabic naskh script:

Below is the name Bashar written in Arabic kufi script:

1. Zayn al-Dīn al-Razī, Mukhtār al-Ṣiḥāḥ (d. 1266 CE), بشر.
2. Ismāʿīl bin Ḥammād al-Jawharī, Tāj al-Lugha wa Ṣiḥāḥ al-ʿArabīya (d. 1003 CE), بشر.
3. Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876), بشر.