Sa‘id

Sa‘id (also spelled Sa'eid, Said, Sid, Saeed or Sayid; Arabic: سعيد‎, Sa‘īd) is a male Arabic given name, which means "happy". For the female version, see Saida; for the Turkish variant, see Sait; for the Bosnian variant, see Seid. Said or Sid is the spelling used in most Latin languages.

Not to be confused with Sayyid.
Sa‘id
PronunciationArabic: [saˈʕiːd] (listen)
Persian: [sæˈʔiːd]
Maltese: [saˈɪt]
GenderMale
Origin
Word/nameArabic
MeaningHappy

The Maltese surname Said has the same origin but has been borne by Latin Catholics for over seven centuries. Most Maltese surnames are of Italian origin, but this (with Abdilla) is one of the very few authentically Arabic given names that have survived in the islands as family names. It is a variant of the medieval Sicilian Christian surname Saido or Saito (Saidu), which was derived from the Siculo-Arabic given name Sa'īd used by both Muslims and Christians. In Sicily and Malta, this surname was sometimes Italianized as (De) Felice. The surname was established in Malta by 1419, appearing mostly as Sayd in the militia list of that year. In the 1480 militia list it is spelt mostly Said, but was later variously written Said, Sayd, Sajt, Sait in the Catholic church census of 1687. The anachronistic and undocumented claim that 'Nicolò Sayd', a grandson of Cem (1459–1496, the renegade son of Turkish Sultan Mehmet II) settled in Malta and became the ancestor of all Maltese bearing the surname Said is a fantasy inspired by the writings of historical novelists Maurice Caron and John Freely and recently promoted by amateur genealogists.

Today, francophone countries use transliterations of that name. These include the names Seydoux and Seydou, which are common in Europe and West Africa, respectively.

Given name

Abu Sa‘id
  • Abu Sa‘id al-Khudri
  • Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr (967–1049), Persian Sufi and poet
  • Abu Sa'id Faraj, a Nasrid prince of Granada, d. 1320
  • Abu Sa'id (Ilkhanid dynasty) (1316–1335), ninth ruler of the Ilkhanate state in Iran
  • Abu Sa'id (Timurid dynasty) (1424–1469), mid-fifteenth century Timurid Empire ruler in what are today parts of Persia and Afghanistan
  • Khaled al-Hassan (1928–1994), known as Abu Said, Palestine Liberation Organization leader

Surname

Fictional characters
  • Sayid Jarrah, character on the television series Lost
  • Kareem Saïd, character on the HBO drama Oz
  • Said Rachid, character on the television series O Clone, interpreted by Dalton Vigh.
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Other uses
  • aṣ-Ṣaʿīd (spelled with a Ṣād, صعيد) is the Arabic term for Upper Egypt. The personal name is related to a different root, whose first letter is Sīn.
  • Saïd Business School at Oxford University, name after Wafic Saïd
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