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Nasr (name)

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Nasr
RomanizationNaṣr
Gendermasculine
Language(s)Arabic: نصر
Origin
Language(s)Arabic
Meaning'victory'
Other names
Alternative spellingNassr
Related namesNasrallah, Nasralla, Nasrollah, Nasrullah, Al-Nasrallah

Nasr (Arabic: نصر, romanizedNaṣr, lit.'victory') is a given name and surname, more common as a surname, in the Arabic language. It may refer to:

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Given name

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  • Nasr Abdel Aziz Eleyan (born 1941), Jordanian-Palestinian artist, television interior designer/producer
  • Nasr Abu Zayd (1943–2010), Egyptian Qur'anic thinker
  • Nasr ibn Sayyar (663–748), Arab general and the last Umayyad governor of Khurasan in 738–748
  • Nasr ibn Shabath al-Uqayli, early 9th-century rebel leader in the Jazira
  • Nasr Javed, Kashmiri senior operative of the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba
  • Nasr Al-Madhkur, 18th century local governor of what was described by a contemporary account as an "independent state" of Bushire and Bahrain
  • Nasra Ali Abukar (born 2003) Somali female athlete
  • Nasr El Hag Ali, the first vice chancellor of the University of Khartoum

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