Sara

From Latin Sara (“Sarah”).

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• Rhymes: -ɛɹə
• Rhymes: -ɑːɹə

Sara (plural Saras)

1. A female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], variant of Sarah.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 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, 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.'

• AARs, ARSA, ASAR, Aras, Raša, SAAR, Saar, aras, asar, rasa

• IPA^(key): /saːra/, [ˈsɑːʁɑ]

Sara

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

• Sarah

From Middle Dutch sara, from Latin Sara, from Ancient Greek Σᾱ́ρᾱ (Sā́rā), from Hebrew שָׂרָה.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaː.raː/

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• Hyphenation: Sa‧ra

Sara f

1. (biblical) Sarah

   Synonyms: Sarai, Saraï

2. a female given name from Hebrew

• Saartje

• aars, raas

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.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑrɑ/, [ˈs̠ɑ̝rɑ̝]
• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑːrɑ/, [ˈs̠ɑ̝ːrɑ̝] (older pronunciation, perceived as Swedish influence)
• Rhymes: -ɑrɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Sa‧ra
• Hyphenation^(key): Sa‧ra

Sara

1. a female given name
   • 1927, Anni Swan, Sara ja Sarri, WSOY, published 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? - - -"

     Sarri curtseyed and felt very awkward.
     "The provost's wife sent her regards", she got blurted out.
     "Thank you. What is your name?"
     "Saara."
     "How funny is that! That's the same name I have."
     The ole lady turned towards the person speaking.
     "Sara, are you up this early? - - -"

   • 1982, Eeva Joenpelto, Elämän rouva, rouva Glad, WSOY, →ISBN, page 133:

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

     And if you may still pronounce Sara from your sacred pulpit, not Saara. Sara Elisa Glad.

   • 1995, Jari Tervo, Pyhiesi yhteyteen, WSOY, →ISBN, 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.

     ―I've got the same name as an actress.
     ―Who.
     ―Dad tells me that.
     ―What's the name.
     ―Sara.
     ―That's a good name.
     ―Sara Suurperkiö, six years old.

   • 2002, Leena Lehtolainen, Kun luulit unohtaneesi, Tammi, →ISBN:

     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.

     Sara had loathed her surname ever since she was a child, and some dozen years later she had changed it to Selin, the maiden name of her father's mother. At the same time Saara lost one of its A's, but her mother and Veikko still called her Saara.

• Sara is the 55^th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 12,076 female individuals (and as a middle name to 2,848 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

From sara (“sedge”) or the weak grade of sarka through place names.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑrɑ/, [ˈs̠ɑ̝rɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑrɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Sa‧ra
• Hyphenation^(key): Sa‧ra

Sara

1. a Finnish surname

• The surname Sara belongs to 146 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• IPA^(key): /sa.ʁa/

Sara f

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

• aras, rasa

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɾa/ [ˈs̺a.ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -aɾa
• Hyphenation: Sa‧ra
• Homophone: sara

Sara f

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈzaːʁa]

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• Hyphenation: Sa‧ra

Sara

1. (biblical) Sarah
2. a female given name from Biblical Hebrew; variant form Sarah

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaːra/
• Rhymes: -aːra

Sara f (proper noun, genitive singular Söru)

1. (biblical) Sarah.
2. a female given name from Hebrew

Derived from Latin Sāra, from Ancient Greek Σᾱ́ρᾱ (Sā́rā), from Biblical Hebrew שָׂרָה (Śārāh).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ra/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ara
• Hyphenation: Sà‧ra

Sara f

1. a female given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Sarah
2. (chiefly Sicily and Calabria) a diminutive of the female given name Rosaria, masculine equivalent Saro
4. (biblical) Sarah (wife of Abraham)

   Alternative form: Sarra^[1] (Dantesque)

• Arsa, arsa, rasa

Sara

1. Rōmaji transcription of さら
2. Rōmaji transcription of サラ

From Ancient Greek Σᾱ́ρᾱ (Sā́rā), from שָׂרָה (Śārāh)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsaː.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsaː.ra]

Sāra f sg (genitive Sārae); first declension

1. a female given name from Hebrew

First-declension noun, singular only.

Sara

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

• Homophone: sara
• Rhymes: -aɾɐ
• Hyphenation: Sa‧ra

Sara f (plural Saras)

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

• Saara
• Sahara (obsolete)

Sara m

1. Sahara (a desert in northern Africa)

• IPA^(key): /sǎːra/

Sára f (Cyrillic spelling Са́ра)

1. a female given name

• “Sara”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2025

• IPA^(key): /sáːra/

Sȃra f

1. a female given name

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Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	Sara
gen. sing.	Sare
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Sara	Sari	Sare
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Sare	Sar	Sar
dative (dajȃlnik)	Sari	Sarama	Saram
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Saro	Sari	Sare
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Sari	Sarah	Sarah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Saro	Sarama	Sarami

• “Sara”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɾa/ [ˈsa.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -aɾa
• Syllabification: Sa‧ra

Sara f

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

• 1602, La Santa Biblia (antigua versión de Casiodoro de Reina), Génesis 17:15:
• : Dijo también Dios á Abraham: A Sarai tu mujer no la llamarás Sarai, mas Sara será su nombre.

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

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Sara c (genitive Saras)

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

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• [1] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 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.

• asar, rasa

• IPA^(key): /sa.ˈʀa/

Sara

1. the Sahara
2. a female given name