What is "rashid"

Rashid (spelled also Rachid) is the transliteration of two male given names; (, ) and (, ).

The latter name has a diacritic, in the strict transliteration, on the "I", which emphasises the long "I" sound in that name's pronunciation.

Ar-Rashid is one of the 99 Names of Allah meaning The Guide.

Rashid, Rachid or Rasheed may refer to:

• Rashid (name), people with the name or leader
• Rasheed Adeleke, a researcher in South Africa
• Rosetta, anglicized name of the city and port of Rashid in Egypt
• Rashid, Yemen
• Rachid, Mauritania, a town at the foot of the Tagant Plateau
• Rashid, Iran, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran
• Rashid, alternate name of Tang-e Goraz, Iran
• Rasheed Carbine, an Egyptian semiautomatic rifle