Basit

See also: basit

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بسيط.

Proper noun

Basit

1. A male given name from Arabic.
2. A surname from Arabic.
   • 1995 June 5, Mary Anne Weaver, “Children of the Jihad”, in The New Yorker‎, archived from the original on 18 April 2016:

     Abdul Basit’s life as one of America’s most-wanted men came to an end almost as suddenly as it began. His alleged co-conspirators in the World Trade Center bombing had implicated “Ramzi Yousef” when they were arrested, and the F.B.I. had on several occasions laid elaborate plans to capture him in Pakistan, but each time he had been alerted and had disappeared, either into Karachi’s un derground or across the border into Afghanistan.