What is "tabar"

Tabar may refer to:

• The Pashto word for "tribe" in the Pashtun tribal structure
• Tabar (axe), a battle axe of Indo-Persian origin popular in India, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
• INS Tabar (F44), an Indian naval vessel
• Tabar, Iran, a village in North Khorasan Province, Iran
• Tabar, Isfahan, a village in Isfahan Province, Iran
• Tabar Rural District, in North Khorasan Province, Iran
• The Tabar Islands, AKA Tabar Group, an island group in Papua New Guinea
• Tabar, Navarre, a village in Navarre, Spain, part of Urraúl Bajo Municipality

The tabar (also called tabarzin, which means "saddle axe") is a type of battle axe. The term tabar is used for axes originating from the Ottoman Empire, Persia, Armenia, India and surrounding countries and cultures. As a loanword taken through Iranian Scythian, the word tabar is also used in most Slavic languages as the word for axe (e.g. ).