Žažar (pronounced [ˈʒaːʒaɾ]; German: Saschar[2] or Schaschar[3]) is a village in the hills southwest of Horjul in the Inner Carniola region of Slovenia.

There is an opening into Pajsar Cave (Pajsarjeva jama), which is 130 meters (430 ft) long and lies in the southern part of the settlement.

[4] The priest and historian Peter Hicinger explained the name as meaning žarišče 'focal point of a fire', from the verb žariti 'to heat (red hot)'.

[4] On 2 August 1942, nine civilians from Šentjošt nad Horjulom and other nearby villages were taken to the forest west of Žažar by the Partisans and murdered.

Their bodies were thrown into a sinkhole known as the Rupe Mass Grave (Slovene: Grobišče v Rupah) on the slope of Križman Peak (Križmanov vrh) near the hamlet of Kajndol in neighboring Smrečje.