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Nazar (given name)
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Christian use
As used by ChristianChristian
A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...
s, it means "from Nazareth
Nazareth
Nazareth is the largest city in the North District of Israel. Known as "the Arab capital of Israel," the population is made up predominantly of Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel...
," the town where Jesus Christ was said to have lived. The etymology of Nazareth from as early as Eusebius up until the 20th century has been said to derive from the Hebrew word נצר netser, meaning a "shoot" or "sprout", while the apocryphal Gospel of Phillip derives the name from Nazara meaning "truth".
Nazario is an Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
and Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
version of the name, Nazaire is a French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
version and Nazariy is a Ukrainian
Ukrainian language
Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of Ukraine. Written Ukrainian uses a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet....
and Russian
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
form. Other variants in use include Nasareo, Nasarrio, Nazaret, Nazarie, Nazaro, Nazerene, Nazerine and Nazor. Nazret, the Amharic
Amharic language
Amharic is a Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia. It is the second most-spoken Semitic language in the world, after Arabic, and the official working language of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. Thus, it has official status and is used nationwide. Amharic is also the official or working...
word for Nazareth, is also occasionally used as a female name in Ethiopia
Ethiopia
Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...
and Eritrea
Eritrea
Eritrea , officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa. Eritrea derives it's name from the Greek word Erethria, meaning 'red land'. The capital is Asmara. It is bordered by Sudan in the west, Ethiopia in the south, and Djibouti in the southeast...
, while Nazaret is also occasionally used as a name for girls in Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
-speaking areas. According to the web site behindthename.com, all are derived from the name Nazarius, which was in use in late Roman times and was also the name of some early Christian
Christian
A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...
saint
Saint
A saint is a holy person. In various religions, saints are people who are believed to have exceptional holiness.In Christian usage, "saint" refers to any believer who is "in Christ", and in whom Christ dwells, whether in heaven or in earth...
s and martyr
Martyr
A martyr is somebody who suffers persecution and death for refusing to renounce, or accept, a belief or cause, usually religious.-Meaning:...
s. In 2008, Nazar was the most popular name for boys born in Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
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Muslim use
Nazar is a common rendering into the Latin alphabet of Nadhr , meaning "vow", which is in use as a name in ArabicArabic language
Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...
and Urdu-speaking areas and in some Islamic countries, mainly in the eastern part of the Islamic world; it is a shortening of Nadhr al-Islam.
People
- Nazar Al BaharnaNazar Al BaharnaDr. Nazar Al Baharna is the former Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Bahrain;; currently he is that country's Minister of Health. Al Baharna was appointed in 2006 following the victory of the opposition party Al Wefaq in parliamentary elections that month. Al Baharna was formerly a member of...
- Nazar Baýramow
- Nazar MahmudNazar MahmudNazar Mahmud is an Israeli Druze figure skater. His father is an Israeli Druze, and his mother is a Ukrainian Christian. Mahmud was born while his family was living in the USSR. They moved home to Israel soon after. The movie The Syrian Bride is loosely based on their family. Mahmud is a...
- Nazar MohammadNazar MohammadNazar Mohammad was a Pakistani cricketer who played in 5 Tests in 1952. His son Mudassar Nazar also represented Pakistan....
- Nazaret DaghavarianNazaret DaghavarianNazaret Daghavarian was an Armenian doctor, agronomist and public activist, one of the founders of Armenian General Benevolent Union .He studied in the colleges of Istanbul, then finished the university of Paris...
- Nazario EscotoNazario EscotoNazario Escoto was acting President of "Democratic" Nicaragua after the death of Francisco Castellón during Granada-León civil war....
- Nazario SauroNazario SauroNazario Sauro was an Austrian-born Italian irredentist and sailor.-Life:Born in Capodistria, in what was then the Austrian Littoral , he took to sailing from a very young age, and became the captain of a cargo ship when he was only 20...
- Nazario ToledoNazario ToledoNazario Toledo was a Costa Rican politician....
- Nazarius (rhetorician)
- Saint Nazarius (Roman Martyrology)Saint Nazarius (Roman Martyrology)Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor and Nazarius are saints of the Roman Catholic Church, mentioned in the Martyrology of Bede and earlier editions of the Roman Martyrology for 12 June as four Roman martyrs who suffered death under Diocletian....
- Saint Nazarius (Abbot)Saint Nazarius (Abbot)Saint Nazarius was the fourteenth abbot of the monastery of Lérins, probably during the reign of the Merovingian Clotaire II . He successfully attacked the remnants of paganism on the southern coast of France, overthrew a sanctuary of Venus near Cannes, and founded on its site a convent for women,...
- Saints Nazarius and CelsusNazarius and CelsusSaints Nazarius and Celsus were two martyrs of whom nothing is known except the discovery of their bodies by Saint Ambrose.According to Paulinus the Deacon's Vita Ambrosii, Ambrose, at some time within the last three years of his life, after the death of the Emperor Theodosius Saints Nazarius and...
- John Paul NazariusJohn Paul NazariusJohn Paul Nazarius was an Italian Dominican theologian.-Biography:He was born at Cremona. He entered the order at an early age in his native town and from the beginning was noted for his spirituality and love of study. It is most probable that he studied philosophy and theology at the University...
, Dominican theologian - Nazariy YaremchukNazariy YaremchukNazariy Yaremchuk was a well-known Hutsul Ukrainian singer, born in the village of Rivnya, Chernivtsi Oblast.In 1963 he finished the Byznytsk middle school no.1. After an unsuccessful attempt to enter the Geographical faculty of the Chernivtsi university spent some time working as a seismographer...
- Nazar Ibn Ma'ad (ancestor of MudharMudharMudhar or Mudar , is one of two major branches of the "North arabian" tribes, the other branch being Rabi'ah....
tribes) - Nazar Abbas Kazmi