Mara

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Mara or MARA may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

  • Mara (Doctor Who), an evil being in two Doctor Who serials
  • Mara (She-Ra), fictional characters from the She-Ra and the Princesses of Power and The New Adventures of He-Man animated series
  • Mara Davis/Mara David/Mara del Valle, a character from Philippine drama series Mara Clara (1992 TV series) and Mara Clara (2010 TV series)
  • Mara Jade, in the Star Wars Expanded Universe
  • Mara Sewell, a fictional character in The Shield
  • Mara Wade, title character of Mara of the Wilderness

Other uses in arts and entertainment

  • Mara the Lioness, an animal actor
  • Mara (album), a 1995 album by Scottish band Runrig
  • Mara (film), a 2018 American supernatural horror film starring Olga Kurylenko
  • Maara, a 2021 Indian film by Dhilip Kumar
  • Mara, an 1894 novel by Ioan Slavici
  • Dance Club Mara, a formation dance team, Minsk, Belarus

Cultural and language groupings

  • Mara (Tagin), a tribe in Arunachal Pradesh
  • Mara language, a language spoken by the Mara people of India and Burma
    • Mara people
  • Maric languages, a group of Aboriginal Australian languages also known as Mara or Maran
  • Marra language, an Aboriginal Australian language (also known as Mara)
    • Marra people, an Aboriginal Australian people

Folklore, mythology, and religion

  • Mara (demon), in Buddhism
  • Mara (folklore), a wraith-like creature in Germanic and Scandinavian folklore
  • Mara (Hindu goddess) of death
  • Mara, anagram of Rama, for Valmiki to chant in Hindu mythology
  • Marzanna or Mara, Slavic goddess
  • Māra, Latvian goddess

Military and transport

  • MARA (anti-tank weapon), Argentine antitank missile
  • Mirage 5P Mara, upgraded Dassault Mirage 5 aircraft for Argentine Air Force
  • Shell Mara, a Lake tanker operated in Lake Maracaibo by Shell Oil
  • SS Mara, a Lake tanker operated in Lake Maracaibo by Lago Oil and Transport Company

Organisations

People with the name

  • Mara (name), list of people with this name
  • Māra (given name), a Latvian given name
  • Mára, the stage name for American musician Faith Coloccia during solo performances
  • Mara (singer), Russian rock singer

Places

Including geographical features
  • Mara (torrent), a stream of Switzerland and Italy
  • Mara, Aragon, a municipality in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain
  • Mara, Iran, a village in Tehran province
  • Mara, Isfahan, a village in Iran
  • Mara, Kerman, a village in Iran
  • Mara, Sardinia, a commune on the Italian island of Sardinia
  • Mara, a small town in the Bushveld of South Africa
  • Mara, a village in Desești Commune, Maramureș County, Romania
  • Mara, a village in Tararua District, part of Wellington Region, New Zealand
  • Mara District, a district in the province of Cotabambas, Apurimac, Peru
  • Mara (Iza), a river in northern Romania
  • Mara Lake, a lake in British Columbia, Canada
  • Mara Mountain, a mountain in Greenland, and the closest mountain to the North Pole
  • Mara Provincial Park (Ontario), a provincial park located near Orillia, Ontario, Canada
  • Mara Provincial Park, a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada
  • Mara Region, an administrative division in Tanzania
  • Mara River (Nunavut), a river in Canada
  • Mara River, a river of Kenya and Tanzania
  • Măra River, a river in Romania
  • Marado or Mara Island, South Korea
  • Masai Mara, known locally as "The Mara", a reserve in Kenya near the Mara River

Other uses

See also

  • Mahra (disambiguation)
  • Marah (disambiguation)
  • Maras (disambiguation)
  • Marra (disambiguation)
  • Maran (disambiguation)
Topics referred to by the same term
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