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Bahar (name)

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Bahar (Persian: بهار, lit.'spring') in Persian appears as a feminine given name in Iran, Afghanistan and Turkey. It comes from the Middle Persian whʾl (wahār), which ultimately comes from Proto-Indo-European *wósr̥ (“spring”).

A similar name also appears in the Semitic languages albeit with a different meaning. Therefore, Baħar in Maltese; Al-Bahr (Arabic: البحر, romanizedalbahr) in Arabic; and Bahir (Amharic: ባሕር, romanizedbaḥiri in Amharic - Bahari / Tigrinya: ባሕሪ, romanized: Bahri in Tigrinya).

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