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Nazir or Nazeer may refer to:
- Nazir (name)
- Nazir, Iran, a village in Markazi Province, Iran
- Nazirite, in the Hebrew Bible, one who took the ascetic vow described in Numbers 6:1-21
- Nazir (Talmud), a tractate of the Talmud dealing with Nazirites
- Nazeer (horse), an Arabian stallion of "straight Egyptian" bloodlines
Nazir is a treatise of the Mishnah and the Tosefta and in both Talmuds, devoted chiefly to a discussion of the laws of the Nazirite laid down in Numbers 6:1-21. In the Tosefta its title is Nezirut ("Nazariteness"). In most of the editions of the Mishnah this treatise is the fourth in the order Nashim, and it is divided into 9 chapters, containing 48 paragraphs in all.
Nazir or Nazeer is both a given name and a surname. Occurrences of the name include:
Given name:
- Nazeer Abbasi (died 1989), Sindhi political activist
- Nazeer Akbarabadi, 18th-century Urdu poet
- Nazeer Allie (born 1985), South African footballer
- Nazeer Naji, Pakistani journalist
- Nazir Ahmed (disambiguation)
- Nazir Jairazbhoy (1927–2009), professor of music at UCLA
- Nazir Sabir, Pakistani mountaineer
Surname:
- Imran Nazir (born 1981), Pakistani cricketer
- Maulvi Nazir (1975–2013), Pakistani Taliban leader
- Prem Nazir (1926–1989), Malayali Indian film actor
- Shaied Nazir (born 1980), convicted of the racially motivated murder of Ross Parker
Usage examples of "nazir".
Nazir Jung, proclaimed him Subadar of the Deccan, escorted him to Hyderabad, and received from him the cession of considerable fresh grants of territory to the French.
But Nazir was able to hold it in place as Apu was swept toward the ledge.
Add to that the Main Group, and you're looking at a real threat: twenty-nine destroyers, ten light cruisers, and twenty-seven battleships-including the three big ones they just launched: Rengas, Parnas, and Nazir.