Jabbar

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 footballer

Jabbar as given name

• Jabbar Baghtcheban (1884–1966), Iranian worker with the deaf
• Jabbar Choheili (1923–2014), Iranian Mandaean priest
• Jabbar Garyagdioglu (1861–1944), Azerbaijani folk singer
• Jabbar Muhammad (born 2001), American football player
• 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

• Abdoul Jabbar (1980–2021), Guinean singer-songwriter
• Abdul Jabbar (activist) (1919–1952), Bengali-language demonstrator
• Abdul Jabbar (footballer) (1945–2014), Pakistani footballer
• Hussein Jabbar (born 1998), Iraqi footballer
• Javed Jabbar, Pakistani writer and politician
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born 1947), American basketball player (occasionally appears as "Jabbar" in box scores)
• Maitham Jabbar (born 2000), Iraqi footballer
• Mehreen Jabbar (born 1971), Pakistani filmmaker, daughter of Javed Jabbar
• Mudhafar Jabbar (born 1965), Iraqi footballer
• Mustafa Jabbar (born 1949), Bangladeshi businessman and politician
• Pat Jabbar, music producer
• Sadia Jabbar, Pakistani television and film producer
• Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, suspect in the 2025 New Orleans truck attack
• Sheikh Abdul Jabbar (1931–1990), Indian politician and freedom fighter from Jammu and Kashmir
• T H Abdul Jabbar (born 1960), Indian National Congress politician from Kerala
• Yaser Jabbar, consultant orthopaedic surgeon

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
• Jabber (disambiguation)