Jabbar

Jabbar (جبار) is an Arabic word meaning "great" or "mighty". With the definite article as al-Jabbar (الجبار) it is one of the names of God in Islam, and is so used in the given name Abd al-Jabbar (عبد الجبار).

Al-Jabbar as surname

 * Abdul Jalilul Jabbar (ruled 1649–1652), 12th Sultan of Brunei
 * Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar (born 1974), American football player

Jabbar as given name

 * Jabbar Baghtcheban (1884-1966), Iranian worker with the deaf
 * Jabbar Garyagdioglu (1861–1944), Azerbaijani folk singer
 * Jabbar Choheili (1923-2014), Iranian Mandaean priest
 * Jabbar Patel (born 1942), Indian theatre and film director
 * Jabbar Savalan (born ca. 1991), Azerbaijani blogger
 * Jawad Jabbar Sadkhan Al-Sahlani, Iraqi held in Guantanamo

Jabbar as surname

 * Javed Jabbar, Pakistani politician
 * Mehreen Jabbar (born 1971), Pakistani filmmaker and daughter of Javed Jabbar
 * Pat Jabbar, music producer
 * Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born 1947), American basketball player (occasionally appears as "Jabbar" in box scores)
 * Sheikh Abdul Jabbar, Indian politician and freedom fighter from Jammu and Kashmir.

Other uses

 * Al-Jabbar, the Arabic name of the constellation Orion
 * Jabbar Khel, Afghan clan
 * Khak-i Jabbar, village in Afghanistan
 * Khaki Jabbar District, Afghanistan
 * Jabbar, Khuzestan, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran
 * Jabbar, Razavi Khorasan, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
 * Jabbar, alternate name of Kalateh-ye Jabbar, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
 * Jabbar, South Khorasan, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran

Fictional uses

 * Jabbar (The 99), a character in The 99 comics
 * Gom jabbar, a weapon from the Dune universe