Machar
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Machar may refer to:
- Agnes Maule MacharAgnes Maule MacharAgnes Maule Machar was a Canadian author.Machar was born and educated in Kingston, Ontario. She was the daughter of John Machar.- Bibliography :* For King and Country* Katie Johnson's Cross...
(1837-1927), Canadian author - Josef Svatopluk MacharJosef Svatopluk MacharJosef Svatopluk Machar was a Czech poet and essayist. A a leader of the realist movement in Czech poetry and a master of colloquial Czech, Machar was active in anti-Austrian political circles in Vienna. Many of his poems were satires of political and social conditions...
(1854-1942), Czech poet and essayist - MachairMachair (geography)The machair refers to a fertile low-lying grassy plain found on some of the north-west coastlines of Ireland and Scotland, in particular the Outer Hebrides...
, a type of fertile low-lying raised beach - machar, a transliteration of the Hebrew word meaning "tomorrow"
- Machar ColonyMachar ColonyMachar Colony is one of the neighbourhoods of Kiamari Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. There are several ethnic groups in Machar Colony. Bengalis from Bangladesh make up the majority of residents, but numerous other groups are represented,including: Muhajirs, Punjabis, Sindhis, Kashmiris,...
, a neighborhood in Kiamari Town, Pakistan - Machar, OntarioMachar, OntarioMachar is a township in the Canadian province of Ontario.Located in the Parry Sound District, Machar surrounds but does not include the village of South River.The township had a population of 849 in the 2001 Canadian census, and 866 in the 2006 census...
, a township in Canada - the MacharsMacharsThe Machars is a peninsula in Galloway in the south-west of Scotland. The word is derived from the Gaelic word Machair meaning low lying or level land, known as "links" on the east coast of Scotland...
, a peninsula in southwest Scotland - Riek MacharRiek MacharRiek Machar Teny Dhurgon , is the first vice-president of the independent Republic of South Sudan.Riek Machar obtained a PhD in mechanical engineering in 1984 and then joined the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army during the Second Sudanese Civil War...
(b. 1952), the Vice President of Southern Sudan - Saint MacharSaint MacharMachar was a 6th-century Irish Saint active in Scotland.Much of what is claimed to be known about St Machar derives from the Aberdeen Breviary, a work compiled in the late fifteenth to early sixteenth centuries, long after the traditional date of Machar's life...
, a purported 6th century Gaelic saint - St Machar's Cathedral in Aberdeen, Scotland
- Machar Oilfield a part of the Eastern Trough Area ProjectEastern Trough Area ProjectThe Eastern Trough Area Project, commonly known as ETAP, is a network of nine smaller oil and gas fields in the Central North Sea covering an area up to 35 km in diameter...
in the North Sea - or MosquitoMosquitoMosquitoes are members of a family of nematocerid flies: the Culicidae . The word Mosquito is from the Spanish and Portuguese for little fly...
is called as " Macchar " in HindiHindiStandard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...
& UrduUrduUrdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...
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