Nahar

Nahar is a term with multiple meanings across languages and cultures. In Hebrew, nahar (נָהָר) means “river” and appears in biblical as well as contemporary names and place references. In Hindi and Urdu, written as नहर or نَهَر, the word nahr designates a canal or irrigation channel and is widely used in everyday speech and infrastructure naming.

As a personal name, Nahar functions as both a given name and a surname in various communities, particularly among speakers of Middle Eastern and South Asian languages and in diaspora populations. Its use as a name is influenced by the linguistic sense of the root word, with associations to water bodies or waterways in local contexts.

In cultural usage, Nahar can appear as a character name in literature and media, and as a toponymic element when naming places or features related to rivers or canals. The transliteration of the term varies by language and region, leading to forms such as Nahar or Naher in different texts.

Overall, Nahar denotes water-related imagery across several languages, serving as a linguistic bridge between geographical features and personal naming traditions.