Mara

Meanings

Proper Noun

• A Maran Australian Aboriginal prefixing language spoken in southeastern Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.
• A female given name from Hebrew
• Hindu god of death; opposite of Kama.
• Slavic goddess of winter and death; Marena or Maržanna.

Noun

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

Related

Similar words

• Lakher

Origin

• From Hebrew מָרָא, derived from Hebrew מַר. The modern given name may also be shortened from Maria or Tamara.
• From Sanskrit मर, from Proto-Indo-European *mer- ("to die"). Doublet of mortality.