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nazar

nazar noun: an eye-shaped amulet supposed to protect against the evil eye in certain cultures.

nazar: an eye-shaped amulet supposed to protect against the evil eye in certain cultures
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Noun

nazar (plural nazars)

  1. An eye-shaped amulet supposed to protect against the evil eye in certain cultures.

Proper noun capitalized: Nazar

Nazar (plural Nazars)

  1. A transliteration of the Belarusian, Russian, or Ukrainian male given name Наза́р (Nazár)
  2. A surname.

Forms of nazar

Noun
pluralnazars
Proper noun
pluralNazars

Origin of nazar

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish نظر (now Turkish nazar (boncuğu)), from Arabic نَظَر (naẓar).

Questions about nazar

What does nazar mean?
Nazar means an eye-shaped amulet supposed to protect against the evil eye in certain cultures.
What part of speech is nazar?
Nazar can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of nazar?
The plural of nazar is nazars.

Words near nazar in the dictionary

  1. Nayyar
  2. Nayyars
  3. Nazaire
  4. Nazaires
  5. Nazanin
  6. nazar
  7. nazarana
  8. nazaranas
  9. Nazarbayev
  10. nazard
  11. nazards

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: nazar (page history and authors); Nazar (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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