Rashid

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Arabic, Malay, Urdu, Uzbek

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Meaning & History

Signifies "rightly guided" in Arabic. In Islamic tradition, الرشيد (al-Rashīd) is one of the 99 names of Allah.

This transcription represents two different Arabic spellings: رشيد, with a long second vowel, and راشد, with a long first vowel.

Variants	(Arabic): Rashed (Urdu): Rasheed (Arabic (Maghrebi)): Rachid
Feminine Forms	(Urdu): Rashida (Arabic (Maghrebi)): Rachida
Other Languages & Cultures	(Tatar): Rashit, Räşit (Turkish): Reşit

Name	Years	Category
Rashid Karami	1955-1956; 1958-1960; 1961-1964; 1965-1966; 1966-1968; 1969-1970; 1975-1976; 1984-1987	Lebanese Presidents and Prime Ministers
Rashid Khalidi	1948-	Notable Philosophers and Thinkers
Rashid Nugmanov	1954-	Notable Filmmakers