"Melqart has shown favor"
The name Amilcar is commonly a male name from the "" origin that means "Melqart has shown favor".
Amilcar is the Spanish and Portuguese form of Hamilcar, the name of the Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca, who died in 228 BC and was the father of Hannibal. The Punic original is attested as hmlqrt, formed with the name of the god Melqart and commonly rendered as "Melqart has shown favor". The Spanish and Portuguese spellings without the initial H correspond to the Greek and Latin forms of the name used by classical writers.
The pronunciation of Amilcar is ah-MEEL-kar.
