Nasir

Nasir (Arabic: ناصر Nāṣir) is an Arabic masculine given name which can mean "helper" or "one who gives victory" (grammatically the Stem I masculine singular active participle of consonantal verb root n-ṣ-r). The female form of the name is Nasira (ناصرة Nāṣira).

Naseer is a transcription of Arabic: نصـيـر Naṣīr, a related word of similar meaning also used as a name.

People with the given name[]

• Al-Nasir, Abbasid caliph who ruled from 1158 to 1225
• Nasir al-Din Bughra Khan (1287–1291), sultan of Bengal
• Nasir ibn Alnas (also known as An-Nasir ibn Alnas) (died 1088), fifth ruler of the Hammadids in Algeria
• Nasiruddin Mahmud (grandson of Iltutmish), Muslim Turkic ruler
• Nasir ad-Din Qabacha, Muslim Turkic governor of Multan
• Nasir Jones (born 1973), American Rapper
• Nasir Adderley (born 1997), American football player
• Nasir Kazmi (1925–1972), Pakistani Urdu poet
• Naser Orić (born 1967), Bosnian military officer during the Bosnian War
• Nasir Gebelli (born 1957), Iranian-American video game developer
• Nasir al-Din Shah (1831–1896), ruler of Qajar dynasty in present-day Iran

People with the surname[]

• Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970), second President of Egypt
• Vali Nasr (born 1960), Iranian-American Middle Eastern expert
• Hakim Nasir, Pakistani Urdu poet also using the takhallus of Nasir
• Clare Nasir (born 1970), British weather forecaster
• Serdar Nasır, Turkish plastic surgeon
• Felipe Nasr (born 1992), Brazilian racing driver
• Bachtiar Nasir (born 1967), Indonesian ulama

Fictional characters with the name[]

• Nasir, the main character in the video game Lagoon
• Nasir, character in the TV series Spartacus
• Nasir, a playable character in both Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and its sequel Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
• Nasir, a Saracen character played by Mark Ryan in the British 1980s television series Robin of Sherwood (aired in the US as Robin Hood)
• Nasir Meidan, a fictional character in the Android: Netrunner
• Nasir Khan, a fictional character in the television miniseries The Night Of

See also[]

• Arabic name
• Abdul Nasir
• Naseer (disambiguation)
• Nasira (disambiguation)
• Nasir al-Din
• Nazir (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Nasir