Nisar
Nisar means Sacrifice, one who sacrifices, Malabar Muslim.
Meaning as commonly given; not from a dictionary.
| Gender | boy |
| Origin | Malayalam |
| Language | Malayalam |
| Starts with | N |
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “Sacrifice, one who sacrifices, Malabar Muslim”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Yagnesh — Meanings families give: Lord of yagna, Vishnu; Lord of sacrifice; fire deity; Lord of sacrifices; Agni
- Yagna — Meanings families give: Sacrifice, holy fire ritual; Holy fire, sacred offering
- Yajas — Fame through sacrifice, glorious
- Tyag — Sacrifice, renunciation, giving
- Thyagaraj — King of sacrifice, devotion
- Yajur — The Yajur Veda, sacred knowledge of sacrifice
More boys' names of Malayalam origin
- Mohammed — Praised, the Prophet; prominent Mappila name
- Mathew — Gift of God, prominent Kerala Christian name
- Thomas — Twin, Kerala Syrian Christian foremost name
- Joseph — God increases, prominent Kerala Christian name
- Jose — God will add, popular Kerala Latin Christian name
- Unnikrishnan — Meanings families give: Young Krishna; Baby Krishna, infant form of the divine
Where this comes from
Nisar has no entry in the classical Sanskrit dictionary we check against, which is common for modern and non-Sanskrit names. Its meaning comes from our compiled name corpus, the least-sourced dataset on this site — we say so plainly on Sources & methodology rather than implying an authority we cannot name.