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Mara as a female first name is pronounced MAHR-ah most of the time, but can be pronounced as rhyming with Sarah in Jewish -American and Southern United States culture. It is of Hebrew origin, and the meaning of Mara is "bitter," which carries the implication "strength." The biblical Naomi, mother-in-law of Ruth, claimed the name Mara (מרא ...
Maasai Mara, also sometimes spelled Masai Mara and locally known simply as The Mara, is a large national game reserve in Narok, Kenya, contiguous with the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. It is named in honour of the Maasai people , [ 2 ] the ancestral inhabitants of the area, who migrated to the area from the Nile Basin.
Māra is a verbal noun from the causative root and means 'causing death' or 'killing'. [ 4] It is related to other words for death from the same root, such as: maraṇa and mṛtyu. The latter is a name for death personified and is sometimes identified with Yama . The root mṛ is related to the Indo-European verbal root *mer meaning "die ...
Mare (folklore) The Nightmare, by Henry Fuseli, 1781. A mare ( Old English: mære, Old Dutch: mare, Proto-Slavic * mara; mara in Old High German, Old Norse, and Swedish) is a malicious entity in Germanic and Slavic folklore that walks on people's chests while they sleep, bringing on nightmares. [ 1]
A mara is regarded as a group of delinquents of Latin America origin who reside in the United States but have spread towards Central America; namely, in the countries belonging to the Northern Triangle of Central America: Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. The maras are not just Central American phenomena; they are transnational.
Mara ( Doctor Who), an evil being in two Doctor Who serials. Mara, a fictional planet of Procyon in the Childe Cycle of Gordon R. Dickson. Mara (She-Ra), fictional characters from the She-Ra and the Princesses of Power and The New Adventures of He-Man animated series. Mara, leader of the Acoma Clan and heroine of the "Empire Trilogy" by Raymond ...
Ema. Torii. Shinto shrines. Buddhist temples. v. t. e. An akuma (悪魔) is an evil spirit in Japanese folklore, [ 1][ 2] sometimes described in English-language sources as a devil or demon. [ 2][ 3] An alternative name for the akuma is ma (ま). [ 4] Akuma is the name assigned to Satan in Japanese Christianity, and the Mara in Japanese Buddhism .
Maria (given name) Maria is a feminine given name. It is given in many languages influenced by Christianity . It was used as the feminine form of the unrelated Roman name Marius (see Maria gens ), [ 2] and, after Christianity had spread across the Roman empire, it became the Latinised form of the name of Miriam: Mary, mother of Jesus . Maria ...