Saud

Meaning and root

From s-ʿ-d (س-ع-د), the root of *saʿāda* ('happiness') and *saʿd* ('good fortune'). *Saʿūd* is its plural, used as an intensive: not one piece of good fortune but many.

Related names

The same root gives Saʿd, Saʿīd, Musāʿid and Suʿūd — a family of names built on one idea.

In the star names

Classical Arabic astronomy names several lunar stations *al-saʿd* — al-Saʿd al-Dhābiḥ, al-Saʿd al-Bulaʿ and others — which is where much of the name's older poetic association comes from.