Bahar (name)

Bahar 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 (البحر) in Arabic; and Bahir (ባሕር in Amharic - Bahari / ባሕሪ 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