Nahhas

Nahhas (Arabic: نَّحّاس, romanized: Naḥḥās, lit. 'coppersmith'), is an Arabic surname. It is also rendered Nahas and sometimes preceded by the definite article al, el, an, or en with or without a hyphen or a space.

Surname

• Abu Jaʿfar an-Nahhas (874–949), Egyptian Islamic scholar
• Ibn al-Nahhas al-Dimashqi al-Dumyati (died 1411), Islamic scholar and soldier
• Maryam al-Nahhas (1859–1888), Lebanese-Egyptian activist
• Mostafa el-Nahas (1879–1965), Egyptian political figure
• A. S. Nahas (1895–1970), founder of the Nahas chain of department stores
• Gabriel G. Nahas (1920–2012), American anesthesiologist
• Sayed El-Nahas (1939–1994), Egyptian boxer
• Nicolas Nahas (born 1946), Lebanese politician
• Nabil Nahas (born 1949), Lebanese artist
• Charbel Nahas (born 1954), Lebanese economist and politician
• Damon Nahas (born 1974), American soccer coach
• Emad El Nahhas (born 1976), Egyptian footballer and coach
• Sean Nahas (born 1978), American soccer coach
• Robin Nahas (born 1987), Australian rules footballer
• Marie-Lou Nahhas (born 1989), Lebanese-American actress, model, and activist
• Rasha Nahas (born 1996), Palestinian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• Shady Elnahas (born 1998), Canadian judoka

Given name

The given name appears to be unrelated to the Arabic word.

• Nahas Angula (born 1943), Namibian politician
• Nahas Hidhayath (born 1994), Indian film director
• Syed Nahas Pasha (born 1957), Bangladeshi-British journalist

Other

• Khirbet en-Nahas, an ancient copper mine in Jordan

See also

• Serpents in the Bible, referred to as nāḥāš
• The equivalent surname in other languages
  • Coppersmith, English
  • Kupferschmied, German
  • Bakırcı, Turkish