English

Proper noun

Sara

1. A female given name, an alternative form of Sarah.
   • 1611, Bible (KJV), Hebrews 11:11:

     Through faith also Sara her selfe receiued strength to conceiue seede, and was deliuered of a child when she was past age, because she iudged him faithful who had promised.

   • 1850 Dinah Craik, Olive, Chapman and Hall, page 151:

     Olive learnt that her young beauty's name, so far from being anything so fine as Maddalena, was plain Sarah — or Sara, as its owner took care to explain. Olive was rather disappointed - but she thought of Coleridge's ladye love; consoled herself, and tried to console the young lady, with repeating

     My pensive Sara! thy soft cheek reclined, &c.

     At which Miss Sara Derwent laughed, and asked who wrote that very pretty poetry?

   • 2008 Philip Hensher, The Northern Clemency, Harpercollins, ISBN 9780007174799, page 175

     'I wish I was called Sara,' she said out loud.

     'Sarah?' her mother said. 'Why the heck is being called Sarah better than being called Tracy?'

     'Not Sarah, Sara,' Tracy said. 'There's no h, you say Saaara.'

Translations

Anagrams

• Aras, SAAR, Saar

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saːra/, [ˈsɑːʁɑ]

Proper noun

Sara

1. (biblical) Sarah.
2. A female given name, often also spelled Sarah.

Dutch

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Sara ?

1. (biblical) Sarah
2. A female given name

Related terms

• Saartje
• Sarah

Anagrams

• aars, raas

Ewe

Proper noun

Sara

1. A female given name.
   • Ŋɔŋlɔ Kɔkɔe La le Eʋegbe me, Hebritɔwo 11:11

     Le xɔse me Sara ke hɑ̃ kpɔ ŋusẽ bena, wòfɔ fu, eye wòdzi vi le eƒe nyagɑ̃kuku me; elabena ebu amesi na ŋugbedodoe la nuteƒewɔlae.

Finnish

Etymology

Modern variant of Saara ‎(“Sarah”), popularized in the 1980s. Sometimes also associated with the Finnish noun sara ‎(“sedge”).

Pronunciation

• (modern) IPA^(key): [ˈsɑrɑ]
• (old, perceived as a Swedish spelling) IPA^(key): [ˈsɑːrɑ]
• Hyphenation: Sa‧ra

Proper noun

Sara

1. A female given name.
   • 1927 Anni Swan, Sara ja Sarri, WSOY (1966), page 14:

     Sarri niiasi ja tunsi olonsa kovin kömpelöksi.

     "Ruustinna lähetti terveisiä", hän sai soperretuksi.

     "Kiitän. Mikä on nimesi?"

     "Saara."

     "Kuinka hauskaa! Aivan sama nimi kuin minullakin."

     Vanha rouva kääntyi puhujan puoleen.

     "Sara, sinäkö jalkeilla näin aikaisin? - - -"

   • 1982 Eeva Joenpelto, Elämän rouva, rouva Glad, WSOY ISBN 951-0-11426-X, page 133:

     Ja jos voisitte pyhästä saarnatuolistanne lausua etunimen Sara, ei Saara. Siis Sara Elisa Glad.

   • 1995 Jari Tervo, Pyhiesi yhteyteen, WSOY, ISBN 951-0-20492-7, page 89:

     ―Mulla on sama nimi näyttelijän kans.

     ―Kenen.

     ―Isi sanoo niin.

     ―Mikä nimi se on.

     ―Sara.

     ―Se on hieno nimi.

     ―Sara Suurperkiö, kuusi vuotta.

   • 2002 Leena Lehtolainen, Kun luulit unohtaneesi, Tammi, ISBN 951-31-2498-3, page :

     Sara oli inhonnut sukunimeään lapsesta asti, ja kymmenkunta vuotta sitten hän oli vaihtanut sen Seliniksi, joka oli ollut mummon isänäidin tyttönimi. Samalla hävisi Saarasta toinen a, mutta äiti ja Veikko kutsuivat häntä edelleen Saaraksi.

Declension

French

Proper noun

Sara

1. (biblical) Sarah.
2. A female given name, usually spelled Sarah.

Anagrams

• aras, rasa

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈzaːʀa]
• Hyphenation: Sa‧ra

Proper noun

Sara

1. (biblical) Sarah.
2. A female given name, often also spelled Sarah.

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaːra/
• Rhymes: -aːra

Proper noun

Sara f

1. (biblical) Sarah.
2. A female given name.

Declension

Italian

Proper noun

Sara f

1. (biblical) Sarah.
2. A female given name.

Anagrams

• arsa
• rasa

Norwegian

Proper noun

Sara

1. (biblical) Sarah.
2. A female given name, recently also spelled Sarah.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Homophone: sara

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Sara f

1. A female given name, equivalent to English Sarah
2. (biblical) Sarah (wife of Abraham)

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• Saara (Brazil)
• Sahara (obsolete)

Proper noun

Sara m (Portugal)

1. Sahara (a desert in northern Africa)

Spanish

Proper noun

Sara f

1. (biblical) Sarah.
2. A female given name.

Quotations

• 1602 — La Santa Biblia (antigua versión de Casiodoro de Reina), rev., Génesis 17:15

  Dijo también Dios á Abraham: A Sarai tu mujer no la llamarás Sarai, mas Sara será su nombre.

Swedish

Etymology

Vulgate Latin Sara, from Hebrew. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1464.

Proper noun

Sara

1. (biblical) Sarah.
2. A female given name, recently also spelled Sarah.

References

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, ISBN 91-21-10937-0
• Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, ISBN 9119551622: 62 008 females with the given name Sara (compared to 6971 named Sarah) living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1980s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

Dongxiang

Noun

sara

1. moon

Estonian

Noun

sara ‎(genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. shed (small wooden construction)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Finnish

(index sa)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑrɑ/
• Hyphenation: sa‧ra
• Rhymes: -ɑrɑ

Noun

sara

1. sedge

Declension

Derived terms

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsˠaɾˠə/

Conjunction

sara

1. Alternative form of sula

Japanese

Romanization

sara

1. rōmaji reading of さら
2. rōmaji reading of サラ

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

sara ?

1. arrow
2. sound
3. vowel
4. lake

Portuguese

Verb

sara

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of sarar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of sarar

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɐˈɾa/
• Hyphenation: sa‧ra

Verb

sara

1. To close.

   Pakisara ang pinto kapag pumasok ka.‎

   Please close the door when you enter.

Conjugation

Veps

Noun

sara

1. fork, branch

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “разветвление, развилина, развилка”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika