Bahar (name)

Not to be confused with Behar (surname), a Sephardic Jewish surname also commonly spelled Bahar.

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

• Amina Gul-Bahar (c. 1434–1492), the first wife of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed 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

See also

• Bahar (disambiguation)