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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Arabic: from a personal name based on ‛awad ‘reverence’, ‘kindness’.
  2. Arabic: occupational name from awwad ‘lute maker’ or ‘lute player’.
  3. Arabic: possibly also from ‛awwạ̄d ‘one who compensates or indemnifies’.