Samar is a female/male given name, gender is based on the country. It is used in several languages.

Sanskrit

Samar in Sanskrit, the word originates from an ancient manuscript,

Samarangana Sutradhara ''Samarangana Sutradhara'' () is an 11th-century poetic treatise on classical Indian architecture ('' vastu shastra'') written in the Sanskrit language attributed to Paramara King Bhoja of Dhar. The title ''Samarāṅgaṇasūtradhāra'' is ...

, or "Battlefield Commander" (sometimes abbreviated "the ''Samar''"), detailing techniques of warfare and ancient Hindu aeronautics, composed in Sanskrit by King

Bhoja Bhoja was the Paramara dynasty, Paramara king of Malwa from 1010 until his death in 1055. He ruled from Dhara (city), Dhara (modern Dhar), and Military career of Bhoja, fought wars with nearly all his neighbours in attempts to extend his king ...

Dhar Dhar is a city located in Dhar district of the Malwa region in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India. The city is the administrative headquarters of the Dhar district. Before Indian independence from Great Britain, it was the capital of the Dhar ...

of the

Paramara Dynasty The Paramara Dynasty (IAST: Paramāra) was an Indian dynasty that ruled Malwa and surrounding areas in west-central India between 9th and 14th centuries. They belonged to the Parmar (clan), Paramara clan of the Rajputs. The dynasty was establi ...

in the 11th Century A.D. It is also referred as time in folk phrases.

Arabic

Samar is generally an Arabic female given name meaning "evening conversations (including Arabic music and poetry)". ''Samar'' is a female name in Arabic and Islamic culture. 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 "I wouldn't visit him at ''samar'' (that is, the 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 ''Samra'' (سمرأ) 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". This name is the stem or root of other Arabic given names associated with this name, the variants are: *

Samer Samer (; ; ) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Population Notable people * Saint Vulmar, hermit who founded Samer Abbey in the 6th century. * Eustace the Monk (c. 1170–1217), pirate an ...

(سَامِر ''sāmir'') - male given name * Samir (سَمِير ''samīr'') - male given name *

Samira Samira (also spelled Samirah, Sameera, Semira and Sameerah; Persian: سميرا ) is a Sanskrit, Arabic, or Persian given name. In Sanskrit, Sameera or Samira () is a feminine given-name, meaning "breeze, wind," or "Vāyu, the wind deity". Many ...

(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.

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 Bharatiya Lok Kala Mandal is a museum based in Udaipur in Rajasthan state in India engaged in studying folk art, culture, songs and festivals of Rajasthan, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh and to popularise and propagate folk arts, folk dances and folk ...

folk-theatre museum

People with the given name Samar (Sanskrit/ Hindi)

Samar Banerjee Samar "Badru" Banerjee (; 30 January 1930 – 20 August 2022) was an Indian association football, footballer who played primarily as a striker for the India national football team. He captained India at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, wh ...

, Indian footballer, popularly known as Badru *

Samar Das Samar Das (; 10 December 1929 – 25 September 2001) was a Bangladeshi musician and composer. He became one of the most important music directors in Pakistan and subsequently Bangladesh and was the composer of over 2,000 songs. Early life Samar ...

, Bangladeshi musician and composer *

Samar Guha Samar Guha () was a noted Indian politician, and an Indian independence movement activist. He was a close associate of Subhas Chandra Bose. He was also a well known academic, whose textbooks on chemistry are still widely used. In 1967, he was e ...

, Indian politician and

Indian independence movement The Indian independence movement was a series of historic events in South Asia with the ultimate aim of ending British Raj, British colonial rule. It lasted until 1947, when the Indian Independence Act 1947 was passed. The first nationalistic ...

activist * Samar Halarnkar, editor-at-large of

Hindustan Times ''Hindustan Times'' is an Indian English language, English-language daily newspaper based in Delhi. It is the flagship publication of HT Media Limited, an entity controlled by the Birla family, and is owned by Shobhana Bhartia, the daughter o ...

* Samar Sen (1916–1987), Indian poet and fingerstyle singer-songwriter

People with the given name and surname Samar (Arabic)

* Samar Abu Elouf (b. 1983 or 1984), Palestinian photojournalist * 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 Samar Mubarakmand (Urdu: ; born 17 September 1942; ) is a Pakistani nuclear physicist known for his research in gamma spectroscopy and the experimental development of the Charged Particle Accelerator at the Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Scien ...

(b. 1942), Pakistani nuclear physicist *

Sima Samar Sima Samar (; born 3 February 1957) is a Hazara human rights advocate, activist and medical doctor within national and international forums, who served as Vice President of Afghanistan in the interim Government of Hamid Karzai & Minister for Wo ...

(b. 1957), Afghan human rights activist

Places

Samar Samar ( ) is the third-largest and seventh-most populous island in the Philippines, with a total population of 1,909,537 as of the 2020 census. It is located in the eastern Visayas, which are in the central Philippines. The island is divided in ...

, an island in the Philippine Archipelago

References

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