Samar (name)
Samar is originally an sanskrit male/female name meaning "Reward / Fruit of paradise (ثمر)" or "Myth, Legend (سمر)". Alternatively, 'Samrah' is also used as a female version of the name. It is also an Iranian name for girls but with a different pronunciation of "S" sound (Sæmær in Persian, instead of θæmær in Arabic).[1]
| Gender | male / female |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Sanskrit, Arabic |
| Meaning | "Reward", "Fruit", "Battlefield Commander", "Evening conversations", "War" |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Samer, Samra |
In Sanskrit the word originates from an ancient manuscript, Samarangana Sutradhara [2] [3] detailing techniques of warfare and ancient Hindu aeronautics, composed in Sanskrit by King Bhoja in the 11th Century A.D. The work is called Samarangana Sutradhara, or "Battlefield Commander" (sometimes abbreviated "the Samar"). It is also referred as time in folk phrases. It is also an Arabic given name meaning "evening conversations including Arabic music and poetry".[4] Samar in Arabic is a cognate of the Hebrew name Shamar which means to preserve.[5] Samar is a male/female name in Islamic culture and also means "fruit" or "reward". In Hindi, Samar is a male name and means "war" from the Sanskrit Samara.[6]
People with the surname Samar
- Akim Samar (1916 - 1943), Soviet Nanai poet
- Devi Lal Samar, founder-director of the Bharatiya Lok Kala Mandal folk-theatre museum
- Sima Samar (b. 1957), Afghan human rights activist.
People with the given name Samar
- Samar Andeel (b. 1987), a female singer from Egypt
- 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 Kokash (b. 1972), Syrian actress and voice actress
- Samar Minallah, Pakistani human right activist
- Samar Mubarakmand (b. 1942), Pakistani Nuclear physicist
- Samar Sen (1916–1987), Bangladeshi poet and fingerstyle singer-songwriter
- Samar Ertsey (b. 1973), German comicbook artist and co-founder of the first free school for comic art, WOC - World Of Comics[7]
- Samar Puri (1987) (part of SANAM Band), singer, editor, writer, guitarist.
Places with the given name Samar
- Samar, an Island in the Philippine Archipelago.
References
- https://www.pronouncenames.com It is also a Hindu boys name where 'samar'(समर) weans 'war' in Hindi/Sanskrit.
- 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.
- "WOC - World Of Comics history". worldofcomics.de. Retrieved 2020-04-04.