Dar or DAR may refer to:

Settlements

Dar es Salaam Dar es Salaam (, ; from ) is the largest city and financial hub of Tanzania. It is also the capital of the Dar es Salaam Region. With a population of over 7 million people, Dar es Salaam is the largest city in East Africa by population and the ...

, the largest city of Tanzania and East Africa * Dar, Azerbaijan, a village *

Dar, Iran Dor (, also Romanized as Dar or Dorr; also known as Dowr and Durr) is a village in Nivan Rural District, in the Central District of Golpayegan County, Isfahan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and als ...

, a village

Companies

Dar Al-Handasah Dar Al-Handasah Consultants (Shair and Partners; ) is a privately owned international consulting company active in engineering, architecture, planning, environmental consulting, project and construction management, facilities management, and econ ...

, an international engineering consulting company.

People

Dar (tribe) Dhar is an Indian surname. It is commonly found among the Hindu Bengali Kayastha and Baniks including Subarnabanik community in Bengal region. Dhar or Dar is also used by some Kashmiri and Punjabi-Kashmiri clans and communities native to the ...

, a Kashmiri tribe in India and Pakistan *

Aleem Dar Aleem Dar PP ( Punjabi, ; born 6 June 1968) is a Pakistani cricket umpire and former first-class cricketer. He is a former member of the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires. Dar won the David Shepherd Trophy three years in a row from 2009 to 2011, aft ...

, Pakistani cricketer and international umpire * Ami Dar, Israeli-American nonprofit leader *

Asif Dar Asif Kamran Dar (born April 16, 1966) is a former boxer from Pakistan, competing in the lightweight (– 60 kg) division. He was born in Quetta. A resident of Toronto, Ontario he represented Pakistan at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angel ...

, Pakistani-Canadian boxer *

Abdul Majeed Dar Abdul Majeed Dar was a former chief commander of the militant group Hizbul Mujahideen in Jammu & Kashmir till 2001. He later gave up violence and sought to restore peace in Kashmir. He was a Politician by profession. Dar originated from the t ...

, commander of Hizbul Mujahideen * Igal Dar (1936–1977), Israeli basketball player * Mukhtar Dar, Pakistani-born artist and activist *

Noam Dar Noam Dar (; born 28 July 1993) is an Israeli and Scottish professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE where he perfroms on the NXT brand and is the current NXT Heritage Cup champion in his record-setting fourth reign. He is also known for his ti ...

, Israeli-Scottish professional wrestler *

William Dar William Dollente Dar (born April 10, 1953) is a Filipino horticulturist and civil servant who served as the Secretary of Agriculture under the Duterte administration. He was appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte on August 5, 2019, to replace E ...

(born 1953), Filipino horticulturist and government administrator * Dar Heatherington (born 1963), Canadian politician *

Dar Lyon Malcolm Douglas Lyon (22 April 1898 – 17 February 1964), generally known as Dar Lyon was an English first-class cricket, first-class cricketer who played for Somerset County Cricket Club through the 1920s. He was a right-handed Batting order ( ...

, an English first-class cricketer *

Dar Robinson Dar Allen Robinson (March 26, 1947 – November 21, 1986) was an American stunt performer and actor. Robinson broke 19 world records and set 21 "world's firsts." He invented the decelerator (use of dragline cables rather than airbags for a ...

, American stunt performer and actor *

Dar Williams Dorothy Snowden "Dar" Williams (born April 19, 1967) is an American pop folk singer-songwriter from Mount Kisco, New York. Hendrik Hertzberg of ''The New Yorker'' has described Williams as "one of America's very best singer-songwriters." She ...

, folk-pop artist

Fictional characters

* Dar, the main character in the 1982 fantasy film ''

The Beastmaster ''The Beastmaster'' is a 1982 American-West German sword and sorcery film directed by Don Coscarelli and starring Marc Singer, Tanya Roberts, John Amos and Rip Torn. Loosely based on the 1959 novel ''The Beast Master'' by Alice "Andre" Norton, ...

'' and the 1999–2002 Canadian ''Beastmaster '' TV series * Dar Adal, one of the main characters in the TV series ''Homeland''

Acronyms

Data at rest Data at rest in information technology means data that is housed physically on computer data storage in any digital form (e.g. cloud storage, file hosting services, databases, data warehouses, spreadsheets, archives, tapes, off-site or cloud backu ...

dar (disk archiver) dar (disk archive) is a computer program, a command-line archiving tool intended as a replacement for tar in Unix-like operating systems. Features * Support for slices, archives split over multiple files of a particular size * Option of delet ...

, a disk archiving tool similar to tar * Darzhavna Aeroplanna Rabotilnitsa (Държавната аеропланна работилница) or DAR (ДАР), a Bulgarian aircraft manufacturer *

Daughters of the American Revolution The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (often abbreviated as DAR or NSDAR) is a lineage-based membership service organization for women who are directly descended from a patriot of the American Revolutionary War. A non-p ...

Definite article reduction Definite article reduction (DAR), in linguistics, is the use of a vowel-less form of the definite article ''the'' in Northern dialects of England English, for example in Yorkshire dialect. DAR is often represented by dialect spelling with an apos ...

, a linguistic phenomenon *

Department of Agrarian Reform The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR; ) is an executive department of the Philippine government responsible for the redistribution of agrarian land in the Philippines. The secretary of agrarian reform is the head of DAR. List of the Secreta ...

Designated Airworthiness Representative A Designated Airworthiness Representative (DAR) is a private person designated by the United States Federal Aviation Administration to act on its behalf in the certification of type certificated and amateur-built aircraft for the issuance of airwo ...

, a person authorized to issue Airworthiness Certificates in the United States *

Digital Assets Repository The Digital Assets Repository ( or ''DAR'') is a system developed at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) by the International School of Information Science (ISIS) to create and maintain digital library collections and preserve them to future generati ...

Disulfiram-alcohol reaction Disulfiram-alcohol reaction (DAR) is the effect of the interaction in the human body of alcohol drunk with disulfiram or some types of mushrooms. The DAR is key to disulfiram therapy that is widely used for alcohol-aversive treatment and managem ...

Display aspect ratio The display aspect ratio (DAR) is the Aspect ratio (image), aspect ratio of a display device and so the proportional relationship between the display size, physical width and the height of the display. It is expressed as two numbers separated by a ...

Transport

Dominion Atlantic Railway The Dominion Atlantic Railway was a historic railway which operated in the western part of Nova Scotia in Canada, primarily through an agricultural district known as the Annapolis Valley. The Dominion Atlantic Railway (DAR) was unusually divers ...

* DAR, IATA airport code of

Julius Nyerere International Airport Julius Nyerere International Airport is the international airport of Dar es Salaam, the largest city in Tanzania. It is located in Kipawa ward of Ilala District in Dar es Salaam Region of Tanzania. The airport has flights to destinations in ...

, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania * DAR, National Rail station code of

Darlington railway station Darlington railway station is a principal stop on the East Coast Main Line, serving the town of Darlington in County Durham, England. It is north of . It is situated between to the south and to the north. Its three-letter station code is D ...

, County Durham, England

Other uses

* Дар, Russian title of Vladimir Nabokov's book '' The Gift'' * ''DAR!'', an autobiographical webcomic by

Erika Moen Erika Moen (born 1983) is an American comic book artist, known for her autobiographical comic ''DAR'', the sex educational webcomic ''Oh Joy, Sex Toy'', and the graphic novel '' Let's Talk About It''. Biography Moen was born in 1983 and based i ...

* dar, ISO 639-3 code for the

Dargwa language Dargwa (, ''dargan mez'') is a Northeast Caucasian languages, Northeast Caucasian language spoken by the Dargins, Dargin people in the Russian republic Dagestan. This article discusses the literary dialect of the dialect continuum constituting th ...