60%RatingSave Gender Masculine Usage Arabic, Urdu, Kazakh Scripts مختار(Arabic, Urdu) Мұхтар(Kazakh) Pronounced Pron. mookh-TAR(Arabic) [key·IPA] Meaning & History Means "chosen" in Arabic. Related NamesFamily Tree·Details VariantMokhtar(Arabic (Maghrebi)) Other Languages & CulturesMokhtar(Malay) Mokhtar(Persian) Mukhtaar(Somali) Muhtar(Turkish)