Hussein

English

Proper noun

Hussein

1. 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

• BHO
• Satan Hussein

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

• Hussien

Italian

Etymology

Transliteration of Arabic حُسَيْن (ḥusayn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /usˈsɛjn/
• Rhymes: -ɛjn
• Hyphenation: Hus‧sèin

Proper noun

Hussein m or f by sense

1. A transliteration of the Arabic male given name and surname حُسَيْن (ḥusayn)