Bahar
Bahar meaning spring season, in Persian also appears as a given girl's name in Iran, Pakistan and Turkey. Bahar word originated from Vihar. Early Persian poetry was a creation of east Persians, who cultivated abstract mental forms recalling the grace of Buddhist statues. Till the 11th century, Persian poetry came from Khorasan, Sogdiana and adjacent areas, which were once steeped in Buddhism. The metaphor of Bot (Buddha) was constant and exclusive in early Persian poetry. The facial type of bot-e-mahruy (moon-faced statue) was the norm in Persian paintings and poetry. Bahar is both spring and a monastery (vihar). The Persian raghe for sloping hill refers to the location of vihars on top of a hill with gentle slopes.
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Baħar in Maltese, Al-Bahr (Arabic: البحر, romanized: albahr) in Arabic, Bahir (Amharic: ባሕር, romanized: baḥiri in Amharic - Bahari / Tigrinya: ባሕሪ, romanized: Bahri in Tigrinya) means sea.
It may also refer to:
Places
Armenia
Northeast Africa
- Bahir Dar or Bahar Dar, capital city of Amhara Region in Ethiopia
- Northern Red Sea Region in Eritrea
- Southern Red Sea Region in Eritrea
- Medri Bahri, a medieval kingdom in the Horn of Africa
- Red Sea (state), a state in Sudan
- Red Sea Governorate, a governorate in Egypt
Iran
- Bahar, Iran, a city in Hamadan Province of Iran
- Bahar County, an administrative subdivision of Hamadan Province
- Bahar, Khuzestan, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran
- Bahar, Markazi, a village in Markazi Province, Iran
- Bahar, North Khorasan, a village in North Khorasan Province, Iran
- Bahar, Razavi Khorasan, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
- Bahar, Tehran, an area of central Tehran, Iran
- Bahar-e Olya, a village in North Khorasan Province, Iran
- Bahar-e Sofla, a village in North Khorasan Province, Iran
- Central District (Bahar County), a district in Bahar County, Hamadan Province, Iran
- Central District (Chabahar County), a district in Chah Bahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran
- Chah Bahar, a city in and capital of Chah Bahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran
- Chah Bahar County, a county in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran
Malta
- Baħar iċ-Ċagħaq, a village in Malta
Media
- Bahar (newspaper), a Persian-language newspaper
- Bahar (magazine), a 1910 Persian-language magazine
- Bahar (raga), a Hindustani classical raga
- Bahar, the protagonist of the 2018 film Girls of the Sun
Institutions
- Red Sea University, a university in Port Sudan, Red Sea State, Sudan
Other uses
- Bahar (unit), an obsolete unit of length in Iran, and unit of mass in Oman
- Bahar Azadi Coin, an Iranian gold coin minted by Central Bank of the Republic of Iran
- Zobe-Felezat Bahar Hamedan F.C., an Iranian football club based in Hamedan, Iran
- A variation of Behar, the 32nd weekly Torah portion
Titles
- Bahir Negus or Bahri Negus, the title of the ruler or king of Medri Bahri
Names
- 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
- 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