Amar
See also: Appendix:Variations of "amar"
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit अमर (amara, “undying, immortal, imperishable”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: ä′mär
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɑː.mɑː/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈɑ.mɑɹ/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /ˈɒ.mɑɹ/
- (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈɐː.mɐː/
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /ˈa.maɹ/
- (India) IPA(key): /ˈaː.maːʳ/
- Rhymes: -ɑːmɑː(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: A‧mar
Proper noun
Amar (plural Amars)
- A surname.
- A male given name.
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Amar is the 16108th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1797 individuals. Amar is most common among White (54.48%), Asian/Pacific Islander (16.42%), Black/African American (14.08%), and Hispanic/Latino (11.91%) individuals.
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.maʁ/
- Hyphenation: A‧mar
Proper noun
Amar m (plural Amars)
- a surname
Serbo-Croatian
Proper noun
Amar m anim (Cyrillic spelling Амар)
- a male given name
Further reading
- “Amar”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2025