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Samar (name)

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Samar سمر
Gendermale/female
Origin
Word/nameSanskrit
Meaning"Reward", "Fruit", "Battlefield Commander", "Evening conversations", "War"
Other names
Related namesSamer, Samra

Samar is a female/male given name, gender is based on the country. It is used in several languages.

Sanskrit

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Samar in Sanskrit, the word originates from an ancient manuscript, Samarangana Sutradhara,[1][2] or "Battlefield Commander" (sometimes abbreviated "the Samar"), detailing techniques of warfare and ancient Hindu aeronautics, composed in Sanskrit by King Bhoja of Dhar of the Paramara Dynasty in the 11th Century A.D. It is also referred as time in folk phrases.

Arabic

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Samar is generally an Arabic female given name meaning "evening conversations (including Arabic music and poetry)".[3] Samar is a female name in Islamic culture.

Another meaning used as a female given name bears the meaning "the night and its blackness", where the saying goes: "lā âtiy-hi samara (لا آتيهِ سَمَرًا)", meaning "I wouldn't visit him at samar (that is, the night)" or another meaning used as the "brown" like the shadow of the Moon.

The name or adjective itself stems from the root verb samara (سَمَرَ) meaning "chat with one another at the night, having an evening of entertainment".

Another possibility Arabs where the name is used stems from the root verb Samra (سمرأ) meaning "to have a dark complexion - brown, embrown, tan" or "to make something brown - browning, brownish". Also, the name is from the brown colour that is the shadow of the Moon.

Samar in Arabic is a cognate of the Hebrew name Shamar, which means "preservation, protection, conservation[4]".

This name is the stem or root of other Arabic given names associated with this name, the variants are:

  • Samer (سَامِر sāmir) - male given name
  • Samir (سَمِير samīr) - male given name
  • Samira (سَمِيرة samīrah) - female given name formed from the male given name Samir (سَمِير samīr)

Hindi

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Samar is a Hindi male given name and means "war" from the Sanskrit Samara.[5]

People with the surname Samar (Sanskrit/ Hindi)

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People with the given name Samar (Sanskrit/ Hindi)

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People with the given name and surname Samar (Arabic)

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Places

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  • Samar, an island in the Philippine Archipelago

References

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  1. ^ "SAMARANGANA SUTRADHARA". Archived from the original on 2017-01-17.
  2. ^ "Samar". R.Cedric Leonard. Retrieved 2012-04-12.
  3. ^ "Samar". Baby Names World. Retrieved 2011-06-12.
  4. ^ Bauckham, Richard (2006), Jesus and the eyewitnesses: the Gospels as eyewitness testimony, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, p. 255, ISBN 978-0-8028-3162-0
  5. ^ "Samar Meaning. Baby Names & Meanings. What Does Samar Mean?". Baby-names-meanings.net. Retrieved 2011-06-12.