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Jabbar (Arabic: جبار) is an Arabic word meaning "great" or "mighty". With the definite article as al-Jabbar (Arabic: الجبار) it is one of the names of God in Islam, and is so used in the given name Abd al-Jabbar (Arabic: عبد الجبار).

Al-Jabbar as surname

• Abdul Jalilul Jabbar (ruled 1649–1652), 12th Sultan of Brunei
• Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar (born 1974), American football player

Jabbar as given name

• Jabbar Baghtcheban (1884-1966), Iranian worker with the deaf
• Jabbar Garyagdioglu (1861–1944), Azerbaijani folk singer
• Jabbar Choheili (1923-2014), Iranian Mandaean priest
• Jabbar Patel (born 1942), Indian theatre and film director
• Jabbar Savalan (born ca. 1991), Azerbaijani blogger
• Jawad Jabbar Sadkhan Al-Sahlani, Iraqi held in Guantanamo

Jabbar as surname

• Javed Jabbar, Pakistani politician
• Mehreen Jabbar (born 1971), Pakistani filmmaker and daughter of Javed Jabbar
• Pat Jabbar, music producer
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born 1947), American basketball player (occasionally appears as "Jabbar" in box scores)
• Sheikh Abdul Jabbar, Indian politician and freedom fighter from Jammu and Kashmir.

Other uses

• Al-Jabbar, the Arabic name of the constellation Orion
• Jabbar Khel, Afghan clan
• Khak-i Jabbar, village in Afghanistan
  • Khaki Jabbar District, Afghanistan
• Jabbar, Khuzestan, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran
• Jabbar, Razavi Khorasan, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
• Jabbar, alternate name of Kalateh-ye Jabbar, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
• Jabbar, South Khorasan, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran

Fictional uses

• Jabbar (The 99), a character in The 99 comics
• Gom jabbar, a weapon from the Dune universe

See also

• Abdul Jabbar
• Jabari

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