Zamir (name)
The name Zamir corresponds to at least four different names.
One is as the transliteration of the modern Israeli given name and surname, Template:Lang-he, meaning "singer" (rarely, for a male singer with a high pitched voice) or "nightingale".[1] Examples are given below.
Another is as the male Muslim given name, Template:Lang-ar, meaning "heart" or "conscience".[2][3][4] This is properly transliterated as Ḍamīr, but commonly appears as Zamir or Zameer or Damir or Dameer. Examples are given below.
Zamir is a personal name among Albanians, where it literally means "good voice", from "za"= "voice" + "mir" = "good". The feminine form of the name is Zamira. [1]
Zamir also appears as a personal name in south-Slavonic (formerly Yugoslav) culture. This may be a use of the Muslim name, but coincidentally in south Slavonic it could mean "for peace" ("za" = "for" + "mir"= "peace").
Israeli surname
- Zvi Zamir (born 1925), soldier and espionage chief
- Yitzhak Zamir (born 1931), judge
- Hagai Zamir (born 1951), paralympic champion
- Miri Zamir, Miss Israel 1968
- Zamir Cohen (born 1965), rabbi and writer
- Daniel Zamir (born 1981), saxophonist
Muslim given name
- Zamir Jafri (1916 – 1999), Pakistani poet
- Zamir Niazi (1932 - 2004), Pakistani journalist
- Zamir Ali Badayuni (born 1941), Pakistani writer
- Zameer Naqvi (born 1947), Pakistani poet, orator and writer
- Zameer Sattaur (born 1963), Guyanese-American imam and teacher
- Zamir Kabulov (born 1954), Russian diplomat
- Zameer Rizvi (born 1981), Pakistani-Canadian singer and musician
- Muhd Zameer Zainun (born 1990), Malaysian footballer
- Zameer Ahmed Khan, Indian politician
- Hassan Zamir, Information Science Scholar, USA (from Bangladesh)
See also
References
- ^ a b 20000 names website
- ^ Salahuddin Ahmed (1999). A Dictionary of Muslim Names. London: Hurst & Company.
- ^ S. A. Rahman (2001). A Dictionary of Muslim Names. New Delhi: Goodword Books.
- ^ J. Milton Cowan (ed.) (1994). The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic. Ithaca: Spoken Language Services.
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