Nazar

Nazar may refer to:

Persons

• Nazar (given name), a masculine given name

Places

• Nazar-e Bala, a village in Iran
• Nazar-e Pain, a village in Iran
• Nazar, Navarre, a municipality in the province of Navarre, Spain

Film and television

• Nazar (film), a 2005 Bollywood film starring Meera and Ashmit Patel
• Nazar (1991 film), a Bollywood film directed by Mani Kaul
• Nazar (2005 film), a Bollywood film directed by Soni Razdan
• Nazar (2009 film), an Indonesian film directed by Sofyan Surza

Literature

• Nazar the Brave, a fairy tale by Armenian writer Hovhannes Tumanyan
• Nazar, subterranean fictional planet in Ludvig Holberg's 1741 novel Niels Klim's Underground Travels

Music

• Nazar (band), a Turkish band that entered the Eurovision Song Contest 1978
• Nazar (rapper), an Austrian rapper
• Nazar (Universal Sufism), a prayer written by Hazrat Inayat Khan
• Nazar (album), an album released by Joe Chawki and Hodge Gjonbalaj

Others

• Nazar (amulet), or evil eye stone, is an amulet of stone or glass which is believed to protect against evil eye, widely used in Turkey and Afghanistan, India and Pakistan
• Nazar ill'al-murd, meaning "gazing upon the beardless," is a practice of some Sufis: contemplating beautiful boys

See also

• Nazir (disambiguation)
• Nizar (disambiguation)