s. m. f. (M.), ) a wolf; a tribe of Lodhi Paṭháns who formerly ruled in the southern part of the Dera Ghazi Khan and Muzaffargarh districts. In 1450 A. D. Bahlol Lodi became king of Dehli and granted the triangular piece of country lying between Harand, Kasmor and Sitpur to Islam Khan, Lodi or Nahar, for which during the seventy-six years, (1450 to 1526) of the Lodi dynasty the Nahars paid no revenue. But Islam Khan's three grandsons quarrelled and divided the Nahar country. Kásam Khan receiving Kasmor, and Kin, Islam Khan Bhágsar and Rojhan, and Táhir Khán Sitpur and Harand. During the reigns of Bábar and Humayun this country remained in the possession of the Nahars, but in the beginning of Akbar's reign (1556), the Bilochis began to descend from the Suleman Range, when Ghazí Khan, Mirhaui, founded Dera Ghazí Khán and took Harand from the Nahars. The rule of Nahars in the rest of their possessions remained firm until 1730-40, when the Mizari Bilochis expelled Ibrahim Khan, Nahar, and his government from Kasmor, Kin, Rojhan and Umarkot. Subsequently, Makhdum Sheikh Mahmud, a servant of the Nahars of Sitpur, ejected them partly from Sitpur, and the country now forming the southern part of the Muzaffargarh district. But about 1787, the Nawab of Bahawalpur wrested it from him. Nahars are still to be found in Sitpur, Bhagsar, Harand and in Sind. Some have been absorbed into the Khetran tribe of Patháns who live west of Dera Ghazi Khan beyond the Suleman Range. The tombs of Tahir Khan, Nahar, and of his sister are still standing at Sitpur. Táhir Khan's tomb, which is in good preservation, is a very good specimen of the style of architecture peculiar to this part of India. The Lodis who settled in Dera Ghazi Khan and Muzaffargarh are said to have received the name of Nahar on account of their rapacity:—nahar kháwe ná kháwe ratt bhariá wát. Whether the wolf eat or not, his mouth is full of blood.—Prov. Give a dog a bad name and hang him.