Timár is a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary.

After the Tartar invasion, King Bela gave it to Stephen of the Gutkeled family.

In 1347 his landlords were the Báthorians, then the Transylvanian prince István Bethlen, later the Rákóczians, II.

It became the property of Ferenc Rákóczi, until the peace of Szatmár, and was part of the Ecsedi estate.

Among its old place names it was recorded at the beginning of the 20th century: Luka-Back, Péterke-side, Godolya, Aranyos, Sváb-út, Csorka, Megyesi-dűlő, Dányi dülő, Bika meadow, Butyka shore, Miadon shore, Mogyorós, Great lake, Kistisza, Owl Nail and Iron Gate sand names.