Dar Explained

Dar or DAR may refer to:

Settlements

• Dar es Salaam, the largest city of Tanzania and East Africa
• Dar, Azerbaijan, a village
• Dar, Iran, a village

Companies

• Dar Al-Handasah, an international engineering consulting company.

People

• Dar (tribe), a Kashmiri tribe in India and Pakistan
• Aleem Dar, Pakistani cricketer and international umpire
• Ami Dar, Israeli-American nonprofit leader
• Asif Dar, Pakistani-Canadian boxer
• Abdul Majeed Dar, commander of Hizbul Mujahideen
• Igal Dar (1936–1977), Israeli basketball player
• Mukhtar Dar, Pakistani-born artist and activist
• Noam Dar, Israeli-Scottish professional wrestler
• William Dar (born 1953), Filipino horticulturist and government administrator
• Dar Heatherington (born 1963), Canadian politician
• Dar Lyon, an English first-class cricketer
• Dar Robinson, American stunt performer and actor
• Dar Williams, folk-pop artist

Fictional characters

• Dar, the main character in the 1982 fantasy film The Beastmaster and the 1999–2002 Canadian Beastmaster TV series
• Dar Adal, one of the main characters in the TV series Homeland

Acronyms

• Data at rest
• dar (disk archiver), a disk archiving tool similar to tar
• Darzhavna Aeroplanna Rabotilnitsa (Държавната аеропланна работилница) or DAR (ДАР), a Bulgarian aircraft manufacturer
• Daughters of the American Revolution
• Definite article reduction, a linguistic phenomenon
• Department of Agrarian Reform
• Designated Airworthiness Representative, a person authorized to issue Airworthiness Certificates in the United States
• Digital Assets Repository
• Disulfiram-alcohol reaction
• Display aspect ratio

Transport

• Dominion Atlantic Railway
• DAR, IATA airport code of Julius Nyerere International Airport, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
• DAR, National Rail station code of Darlington railway station, County Durham, England

Other uses

• Дар, Russian title of Vladimir Nabokov's book The Gift
• DAR!, an autobiographical webcomic by Erika Moen
• dar, ISO 639-3 code for the Dargwa language

See also

• Darr (disambiguation)
• Dhar (disambiguation)