Hussein
English
Proper noun
Hussein
- A male given name from Arabic: alternative spelling of Husayn.
- 1956 March, R. C. Blaker, “The Hedjaz Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 167:
- In 1924 the Hashemite King Hussein was driven out of the Hedjaz by Ibn Saud, and a state of war sprang up between the new kingdoms of Saudi Arabia and Trans-Jordan.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “Hussein”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “Hussein”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “Hussein”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- “Hussein”, in Collins English Dictionary.
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology
Transliteration of Arabic حُسَيْن (ḥusayn).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /usˈsɛjn/[1]
- Rhymes: -ɛjn
- Hyphenation: Hus‧sèin
Proper noun
Hussein m or f by sense
- a transliteration of the Arabic male given name and surname حُسَيْن (ḥusayn)
References
- ^ Hussein in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)