Ja'far

Dascha ʿ far (Arabic جعفر, DMG Ǧa ʿ far), often Jafar, is an Arabic male first name meaning " stream".

Bearers of the name

• Ja'far ibn Muhammad Abu al - Ma'shar Balchi ( Albumasaar, ca 787-886 ), Persian mathematician
• Jafar Irismetov (* 1976), Uzbek football players
• Jafar Husayn Khan ( * 19 **), North Indian Qawwali singer
• Al - Mutawakkil ' alā ' llāh, Ja'far ibn Muhammad († 861 ), the Abbasid caliph
• Jafar Muhammad at - Numairi (1930-2009), Sudanese politician
• Jafar Panahi ( born 1960 ), Iranian film director and Sakharov Prize winner
• Jafar Pischevari (1893-1947), Iranian- Azerbaijani politician
• Dascha ʿ far al-Sadiq (ca. 700-765 ), Imam of Twelvers and Ismailis and founder of fiqh
• Mohammad Jafar Salmasi (1918-2000), Iranian weightlifter
• Jafar Sharif - Emami (1910-1998), Iranian politician