A nazar (from Arabic , word deriving from Arabic, meaning "sight", "surveillance", "attention", and other related concepts) is an eye-shaped amulet believed to protect against the evil eye. Hindi, Urdu, Pashto, Bengali, Kurdish, Persian, Punjabi, and other languages have borrowed the term as well. In Turkey, it is known by the name nazar boncuğu (the latter word being a derivative of "boncuk", "bead", and the former borrowed from Arabic), in Greece is known as mati (the evil eye). In Persian and Afghan folklore, it is called a cheshm nazar () or nazar qurbāni (). In India and Pakistan, the Hindi-Urdu slogan "Chashm-e-Baddoor" is used to ward off the evil eye. In the Indian subcontinent, the phrase "Nazar lag gai" is used to indicate that one has been affected by the evil eye.