Samar (name)
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Sanskrit/Hindi |
| Meaning | "Battlefield Commander", "War" |
| Other names | |
| Related names | [संग्राम , युद्ध , संघर्ष , लड़ाई , रण , द्वंद्व।] |
Samar (pronounced as Summer. See Hindi pronunciation at https://www.howtopronounce.com/hindi/samar) is a Hindu male name originated from Sanskrit from the Indian subcontinent. It spread out to middle east, used in several languages and adopted by male and sometimes female.
Sanskrit[]
Samar in Sanskrit, the word originates from an ancient manuscript, Samarangana Sutradhara,[1][2] or "Battlefield Commander" (sometimes abbreviated "the Samar"), detailing techniques of warfare and ancient Hindu aeronautics, composed in Sanskrit by King Bhoja of Dhar of the Paramara Dynasty in the 11th Century A.D. It is also referred as time in folk phrases.
Arabic[]
Samar is generally an Arabic female (or sometimes male) given name meaning "evening conversations (including Arabic music and poetry)".[3] Samar is a male or female name in Islamic culture and also means "fruit", "seed of plant or tree with its covering" or "award, bounty, reward".
Another meaning used as a female given name bears the meaning "the night and its blackness", where the saying goes: "lā âtiy-hi samara (لا آتيهِ سَمَرًا)", meaning "do not come to samar (that is, night)" or another meaning used as the "brown" like the shadow of the moon.
The name or adjective itself stems from the root verb samara (سَمَرَ) meaning "chat with one another at the night, having an evening of entertainment".
Another possibility Arabs where the name is used stems from the root verb sammara (سَمَّرَ) meaning "to have a dark complexion - brown, embrown, tan" or "to make something brown - browning, brownish". Also, the name is from the brown colour that is the shadow of the moon.
Samar in Arabic is a cognate of the Hebrew name Shamar, which means "preservation, protection, conservation[4]".
This name is the stem or root of other Arabic given names associated with this name, the variants are:
- Samer (سَامِر sāmir) - male given name
- Samir (سَمِير samīr) - male given name
- Samira (سَمِيرة samīrah) - female given name formed from the male given name Samir (سَمِير samīr)
Hindi[]
Samar is a Hindi male given name and means "war" from the Sanskrit Samara.[5]
People with the surname Samar (Sanskrit/Hindi)[]
- Akim Samar (1916 - 1943), Soviet Nanai poet
- Devi Lal Samar, founder-director of the Bharatiya Lok Kala Mandal folk-theatre museum
People with the given name Samar (Sanskrit/Hindi)[]
- Samar Banerjee, Indian footballer, popularly known as Badru
- Samar Das, Bangladeshi musician and composer
- Samar Guha, Indian politician and Indian independence movement activist
- Samar Halarnkar, editor-at-large of Hindustan Times
- Samar Sen (1916–1987), Indian poet and fingerstyle singer-songwriter
People with the given name and surname Samar (Arabic)[]
- Samar Andeel (b. 1987), a female singer from Egypt
- Samar Kokash (b. 1972), Syrian actress and voice actress
- Samar Minallah, Pakistani human right activist
- Samar Mubarakmand (b. 1942), Pakistani nuclear physicist
- Sima Samar (b. 1957), Afghan human rights activist
Places with the given name Samar[]
- Samar, an Island in the Philippine Archipelago
References[]
- ^ http://www.atlantisquest.com/Samar.html
- ^ "Samar". R.Cedric Leonard. Retrieved 2012-04-12.
- ^ "Samar". Baby Names World. Retrieved 2011-06-12.
- ^ Bauckham, Richard (2006), Jesus and the eyewitnesses: the Gospels as eyewitness testimony, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, p. 255, ISBN 978-0-8028-3162-0
- ^ "Samar Meaning. Baby Names & Meanings. What Does Samar Mean?". Baby-names-meanings.net. Retrieved 2011-06-12.
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