Atar

n. family name (Hebrew)

For the city in Africa, see Atar, Mauritania. For the month of the Hebrew calendar, see Adar. For the French jet engine, see SNECMA Atar.Atar (ātar, Avestan) is the Zoroastrian concept for "burning and unburning fire" and "visible and invisible fire" (Mirza, 1987:389).In an unrestricted sense, atar is heat - that is, thermal energy, manifest as fire or other luminous source when visible. In this sense, atar is an attribute of sources of heat and light, an adjectival form of nominative singular atarsh (ātarš). In later Zoroastrianism, atar (in middle Persian: ādar or ādur) is iconographically conflated with fire itself, which in middle Persian is ataksh, one of the primary objects of Zoroastrian symbolism. The etymology of atar is unknown (Boyce, 2002:1). The yazata Atar is not of Indo-Iranian origin (Dhalla 1938:174).
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Atar (Arabic: أطار) is a town in north western Mauritania, the capital of the Adrar region and the main settlement on the Adrar Plateau. It is home to an airport, a museum and a historic mosque, constructed in 1674.
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Noun
1. essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers
(synonym) attar, athar, ottar
(hypernym) essential oil, volatile oil
(hyponym) attar of roses, rose oil

n. Atar, family name (Hebrew)

n. Atar, family name (Hebrew)