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Matar

Matar

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A family or first name often used by people from Arab countries
  • proper noun
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  • Nabil Matar's "Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North: Circles of Deceit.
  • King Matar

Examples

  • Gabriel Matar, Director, Middle East & Africa, Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels, points to the need for a destination to have a master plan for tourism development.

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  • Here is the recent interview with Faisal Saeed Al Matar of Ideas Beyond Borders.

  • On the other hand, saying that it had belonged to "King Matar" might simply have been a way of signifying its age and importance.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Shot by Mark Wagner and Sharif Matar.

    Blog text (28)
  • Relatives of Matar Abu Al-Atta (19), killed the day before by an Israeli military attack, mourn during his funeral in the al-Shoja'iya neighborhood east of Gaza City, Nov. 11, 2012.

    Blog text (29)
  • Harvard University's horn was explicitly said to have belonged to "King Matar," a Vai chief, and John Cates was given his "war horn" by the Bassa chief in King John's Town.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Recognizing this, Ibraham Matar would allow Israel to keep sovereignty over western Jerusalem but demand the dismantling of all "illegal" Jewish construction built in eastern Jerusalem after June 1967, as well as secure "repatriation of Palestinians to their homes, villages, and property in West Jerusalem," providing compensation for those "who do not wish to have their property back."

    Academic text (1996)
  • It was originally given to the Boston Athenaeum in 1867, having been collected in 1826 by George Dornett, a New England sea captain, at the "River Galeneas" on the Guinea Coast, with the additional information that it "once belonged to King Matar."

    Academic text (1999)
  • As Nabil Matar has argued, direct colonial encounters with Native American peoples surely helped Britons articulate stereotypes of supposedly inferior North African and Turkish Muslims as well, despite the decided lack of English colonial success against Muslim powers.

    Academic text (2003)
  • Dr. Muhammad Matar is known for his contributions to medical research.

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Matar is often an Arabic personal name that comes from the Arabic word matar, which means 'rain'. So a person named Matar can be thought of as bringing life or blessing like rain.