Bahar

Bah?r (Persian: ?????) means the season of Spring in Persian, Kurdish, Urdu, Azerbaijani, and Turkish and occurs as a female name in Pakistan, Iran and Turkey.

Not to be confused with the Arabic language word Ba?r (Arabic: ????) which also occurs in all dialects of Arabic such as Maltese where it means "Sea", while Ba??r in Arabic: ????? means sailor.

It may also refer to:

Given names

Amina Gul-Bahar, (ca. 1434–1492), the first wife of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II
Bahar Begum (born 1942), Pakistani actress
Bahar Ça?lar (born 1988), Turkish female basketballer
Bahar Do?an (born 1974), Turkish female long-distance runner
Bahar Güvenç (born 1997), Turkish women's footballer
Bahar K?z?l (born 1988), German singer of Turkish descent
Bahar Kol (born 1995), Turkish women's footballer
Bahar Mert (born 1975), Turkish female volleyball player
Bahar Movahed Bashiri (born 1979), Iranian portrait caricaturist, classical vocalist and dentist
Bahar Muradova (born 1962), Azerbaijani politician
Bahar Soomekh (born 1975), Iranian-American actress
Bahar Toksoy (born 1988), Turkish female volleyball player
Hatice Bahar Özgüvenç (born 1984), Turkish women's footballer

Surnames

Ahmad Bahar (1889–1957), Iranian statesman
Dany Bahar (born 1971), Turkish chief executive
Emran bin Bahar (born 1961), Bruneian diplomat
Habibullah Bahar Chowdhury (1906–1966), politician and writer from East Bengal
Mehrdad Bahar (1930–1994), Iranian linguist, mythologist and Persian historian
Mohammad-Taghi Bahar (1884–1951), Iranian poet, politician, historian and journalist

Coinage

Bahar Azadi Coin, an Iranian gold coin minted by Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Places

Afghanistan

Naw Bahar District, a district of Zabul Province, Afghanistan
Sabzi Bahar, a village in Badakhshan Province in north-eastern Afghanistan

Armenia

Bahar, former name of Arpunk, a village in the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia
Bahar, former name of Kakhakn, a town in the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia

Azerbaijan

Bahar, Azerbaijan, a village and municipality in the Beylagan Rayon of Azerbaijan
Bahar oilfield, an offshore oil and gas field of Azerbaijan in the Caspian Sea

Bangladesh

Bahar, a town of Faridpur District.

India

Bahar, India, a town and subdivision of Patna District of Bihar, India

Iran

Bahar, Iran, a city in Hamadan Province of Iran
Bahar County, an administrative subdivision of Hamadan Province
Bahar, Khuzestan, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran
Bahar, Markazi, a village in Markazi Province, Iran
Bahar, North Khorasan, a village in North Khorasan Province, Iran
Bahar, Razavi Khorasan, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
Bahar, Tehran, an area of central Tehran, Iran
Bahar-e Olya, a village in North Khorasan Province, Iran
Bahar-e Sofla, a village in North Khorasan Province, Iran
Central District (Bahar County), a district in Bahar County, Hamadan Province, Iran
Central District (Chabahar County), a district in Chah Bahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran
Chah Bahar, a city in and capital of Chah Bahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran
Chah Bahar County, a county in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran
Chah Bahar County,

Media

Aaye Din Bahar Ke, a 1966 Hindi film produced by J. Om Prakash
Andhar Bahar, a 2013 Kannada action movie starring Shivrajkumar and Parvathi Menon
Bahar (newspaper), a Persian-language newspaper
Bahar (film), a 1951 Bollywood movie starring Vyjayanthimala
Barkha Bahar, a 1973 Bollywood romance film directed by Amar Kumar
Basant Bahar (film), an Indian romantic and melodramatic film from 1956
"Ba?ka Bahar", a 2002 Turkish pop song from I??n Karaca's Anadilim A?k album
X'Qala' l-Bahar, a Maltese documentary programme

Other uses

Bahar-e-Shariat (1939), a 1939 encyclopedia of Islamic fiqh
Bahar (raga), a raga used in Hindustani classical music
Bahar (unit), an obsolete unit of length in Iran, and unit of mass in Oman
Cafe Bahar, a popular hotel located in Basheerbagh, Hyderabad, India
Zobe-Felezat Bahar Hamedan F.C., an Iranian football club based in Hamedan, Iran
A variation of Behar, the 32nd weekly Torah portion