Bahar (name)

Bahar (Persian: بهار, lit. 'spring') in Persian appears as a feminine given name in Iran, Afghanistan and Turkey. It comes from the Middle Persian whʾl (wahār), which ultimately comes from Proto-Indo-European *wósr̥ (“spring”).

A similar name also appears in the Semitic languages albeit with a different meaning. Therefore, Baħar in Maltese; Al-Bahr (Arabic: البحر, romanized: albahr) in Arabic; and Bahir (Amharic: ባሕር, romanized: baḥiri in Amharic - Bahari / Tigrinya: ባሕሪ, romanized: Bahri in Tigrinya).

People with the given name Bahar

Emine Gülbahar Hatun (dead in 1492), concubine of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II and mother of Bayezid II
Ahmad Bahar (1889–1957), Iranian statesman
Bahar Çağlar (born 1988), Turkish basketballer
Bahar Doğan (born 1974), Turkish long-distance runner
Bahar Güvenç (born 1997), Turkish footballer
Bahar Kizil (born 1988), German singer of Turkish descent
Bahar Mert (born 1975), Turkish volleyball player
Bahar Movahed Bashiri (born 1979), Iranian portrait caricaturist, classical vocalist and dentist
Bahar Soomekh (born 1975), Iranian-American actor
Bahar Toksoy (born 1988), Turkish volleyball player
Bahar Jefri Bolkiah (born 1981), Bruneian prince

People with the surname Bahar

Dany Bahar (born 1971), Turkish chief executive
Emran bin Bahar (born 1961), Bruneian diplomat
Hatice Bahar Özgüvenç (born 1984), Turkish footballer
Mehrdad Bahar (1930–1994), Iranian linguist, mythologist and Persian historian
Mohammad-Taqi Bahar (1884–1951), Iranian poet, politician, historian and journalist
Mojdeh Bahar, American patent attorney and government official
R. Iris Bahar, American professor and electronics engineer
Salah Al Bahar, Iraqi singer and composer
Qazi Mu'tasim Billah Bahar (1933–2013), Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and professor

People with the given name Bahar

People with the surname Bahar

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