Mehr

Mehr, or Mihr may refer to:

Hindu / Zoroastrian names

• Mehr, an alternative name for Mithra, a Hindu / Zoroastrian divinity
• Mehr (month), the seventh month of the year and the sixteenth day of the month of the Iranian Calendar and Zoroastrian calendar, which are dedicated to the namesake divinity
• Mehr's day, or Mehregan, the Zoroastrian/Iranian festival celebrated in honor of Mehr/Mithra
• Mehr, an Islamic-Iranian epithet of the sun during the month of Ramadan
• 'Mehr', New Zealand slang meaning 'having a bad time'

People

• Mehr (name)
• Mihrişah Valide Sultan (ca. 1745 – 1805), Genoese spouse of Ottoman sultan Mustafa III and the mother of sultan Selim III
• Amina Mihr-i Shah (ca. ? – 1732), French second spouse of Ottoman sultan Ahmed III and the mother of sultan Mustafa III
• Mihrimah Sultan (ca. 1522 - 1578), the daughter of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent
• Mehrdad ("given by Mehr"), Greek Mithridates, the throne name of several kings
• Mihr-Mihroe, 6th century Sassanid general
• House of Mihran,a Parthian clan and an Armenian king
• Mehr Jesia, Indian supermodel
• Farhang Mehr, former deputy prime minister of Iran
• Veh Mihr Shahpur an Armenian king

Places

• Mehr, alternate spelling of Mohr, Fars, a city in Iran
• Mihrimah Mosque, an Ottoman mosque located just inside the Edirnekapı District on the Walls of Istanbul, Turkey
• Mihrimah Sultan Mosque (Üsküdar), an Ottoman mosque located in the historic center of the Üsküdar municipality in Istanbul, Turkey
• Kabud Mehr, a village in Iran
• Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran
• Darb-e Mehr, Mithra's court, an alternate name for a Zoroastrian fire temple
• Mihr, an he Iranian village said to have once been the site of Adur Burzen-Mihr, one of the legendary Great Fires of Zoroastrianism
• Mihr's foot, another name for the Pamir Mountains

Organizations

• Mehr News Agency (MNA), an Iranian news service established in 2003

See also

• Mer (disambiguation)
• Mah (disambiguation)
• Meher (disambiguation)
• Mahr, a gift given by the husband to the wife in Muslim marriages
• Mehar, Sindhi and Punjabi tribe
• All pages beginning with "Mehr"
• All pages with titles containing "Mehr"