Jabir (Arabic: جابر ) is an
Arabic
Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic languages, Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns lang ...
surname or male given name, which means "comforter".
[''Behind The Name'']
"Jabir"
Retrieved on 8 January 2016. Alternative spellings include Djābir,
Jaber, Jābir, Gabir, and
Geber. The name may refer to:
Given name
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Jaber I Al-Sabah (1770–1859), Kuwaiti political leader
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Jabir Al-Azmi (born 1970), Kuwaiti politician
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Jabir al-Kaabi (1789–1881), Arabian political leader
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Jabir al-Sabah (1926–2006), Emir of Kuwait
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Jabir Herbert Muhammad (1929–2008), American businessman
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Jabir Husain (born 1945), Indian politician
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Jabir ibn Abd Allah
Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn Ḥarām al-Anṣārī (, died 697 CE/78 AH), Abu Muhammad and Abu Abd al-Rahman also wrote his nickname was a prominent companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and narrator of Hadith. Imami sources say ...
(607–697), Arab companion of Muhammad
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Jabir ibn Aflah (1100–1150), Spanish-Arab astronomer
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Jābir ibn Hayyan (died c. 806–816), early Islamic alchemist
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Jābir ibn Zayd (died 711), Arab theologian
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Jabir Novruz (1933–2002), Azerbaijani writer
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Jabir Raza (born 1955), Indian historian
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Djabir Saïd-Guerni (born 1977), Algerian athlete
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Jabir Shakir (born 1987), Iraqi football player
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Sultan Djabir (c. 1855–1918), ruler of a region on the Uele River in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Surname
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Balla Jabir (born 1985), Sudanese football player
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Fathi Jabir (born 1980), Yemeni football player
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Malik Jabir (born 1944), Ghanaian football player
See also
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Arabic name
Arabic names have historically been based on a long naming system. Many people from Arabic-speaking and also non-Arab Muslim countries have not had given name, given, middle name, middle, and family names but rather a chain of names. This system ...
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Geber (disambiguation)
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Jaber
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Arabic-language surnames
Arabic-language masculine given names
Masculine given names