Mara

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Mara

1. A Maran Australian Aboriginal prefixing language spoken in southeastern Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.

• Colin Yallop, Australian Aboriginal Languages, Andrew Deutsch, 1982, →ISBN.

From Hebrew מָרָא (mara, “bitterness”), derived from Hebrew מַר (mar, “bitter”). The modern given name may also be shortened from Maria or Tamara.

Mara

1. (rare) A female given name from Hebrew.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ruth 1:20:

     Call me not Naomi, call me Mara; for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

• Marah

From O'Mara, a variant of O'Meara.

Mara

1. A surname from Irish.

From Sanskrit मर (mara), from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to die”). Doublet of mortality.

Mara

1. (Hinduism) The Hindu god of death; opposite of Kama.
2. (Buddhism) The Buddhist archangel of evil or demon

• mara

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Mara

1. (Slavic mythology) The Slavic goddess of winter and death; Marena or Maržanna.

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Mara (plural Maras)

1. A member of a predominantly agricultural tribe of southern Assam and western Burma.

   Synonym: Lakher

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the Mara

1. A river in Tanzania and Kenya.
   • 2018 May 16, Ed Yong, “Hippos Poop So Much That Sometimes All the Fish Die”, in The Atlantic‎^[2]:

     In the dry season, when the Mara becomes narrower and shallower, certain stretches of it become especially thick with hippos—and their dung.

• Rāma, Rama, ARMA, -rama, maar, amra, Aram, Amar

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑrɑ/, [ˈmɑ̝rɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑrɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): Ma‧ra

Diminutive of Martti.

Mara

1. a diminutive of the male given name Martti
   1. (informal) Nickname for Martti Ahtisaari, Finnish politician and President of Finland (1994–2000)

• The given name Mara belongs to 10 male individuals (and as a middle name to 5 more), and also belongs to 16 female individuals (and as a middle name to 8 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

From a Karelian diminutive of some Eastern Orthodox name (in Karelia) and possibly from Swedish mar as a geographical term in Western Finland.^[1]

Mara

1. a Finnish surname

• The surname Mara belongs to 123 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• maar

• Mārë (Pashki)
• Marë (Pronz)
• Maro (Zumu)

Borrowed from Indo-Aryan. Compare Sanskrit महाराजन् (mahārā́jan).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾa/

Mara (Shtive)^[1]

1. Mara

• Jakob Halfmann (2023) Nuristani Theonyms in Light of Historical Phonology, in Roots of Peristan, Rome, Italy, pages 321, 324

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Mara f (genitive/dative Marei)

1. a female given name

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Mara

1. (astronomy) Andromeda