Tabassum as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Tabassum

What is the meaning of the name Tabassum ?

The baby name Tabassum is a girl name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced ta-BAS-soom.

Tabassum is Arabic in Origin.

Tabassum is an Arabic name written تبسم, from Classical Arabic tabassum, the verbal noun of Form V tabassama, to smile. The form is built on the Semitic root b-s-m, concerned with smiling, with the ta- prefix and doubled middle consonant typical of this derived verb pattern. Its literal sense is a smile or smiling, rather than joy in the abstract.

As a personal name it is especially familiar in Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, and other South Asian Muslim naming contexts, where Arabic devotional and literary vocabulary supplied many given names. It can also appear as a surname. Notable bearers include Indian actor and television host Tabassum, Pakistani activist Tabassum Adnan, and Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum. Spellings vary with transliteration, including Tabasum and Tabassom; Turkish has the related borrowing Tebessüm. In the United States it remains rare in birth records, with recent registrations overwhelmingly female.