Ora

• (given name): First appeared in the 19th century when similar sounding names like Cora, Dora and Nora were in fashion. Possibly shortened from Aurelia, sometimes spelled Ora Lee, or, Aura Lea, in the American civil war song.
• (Italian commune): Borrowed from Italian Ora

Ora (countable and uncountable, plural Oras)

1. A diminutive of the female given name Aurelia, from Latin, variant of Aura. Mainly used in the U.S.A. in the latter half of the 19th century.
   • 1859, William Harrison Ainsworth, The Life and Adventures of Mervyn Clitheroe, J. Routledge, published 1858, page 179:

     Both ladies received me very graciously; but I was wholly unprepared for so much beauty as I discovered in Ora Doveton […]

2. A surname
3. Alternative spelling of Auer (“German spelling”): A commune of South Tyrol, northern Italy (from the Italian spelling)

• AOR, AoR, aro, Roa, OAR, ARO, ROA, Rao, oar

From toponym Orania (“a town in South Africa”), from Oranje (“a river in South Africa”). Influenced by Latin aurum (“gold”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʊə.ra/

Ora

1. The local currency of Orania, an Afrikaner enclave in South Africa.

Compare orë (“mountain nymph”).

Ora

1. A female protective spirit.

< ora

• IPA^(key): /ˈorɑ/, [ˈo̞rɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -orɑ
• Syllabification^(key): O‧ra
• Hyphenation^(key): O‧ra

Ora

1. a Finnish surname

• The surname Ora belongs to 236 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

Ora f

1. Hora
2. Auer (a commune of Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy)

• English: Ora

• -aro, aro, arò