English

Noun

1. a rodent common in the Patagonian steppes of Argentina

Darling

Noun

1. hand

Dieri

Noun

1. hand

Finnish

Etymology 1

Noun

1. In the context of "folklore|lang=fi": A demon in Finnish folklore, similar to nightmare.

See also

• painajainen

Etymology 2

Noun

1. Mara, any member of the Dolichotis family of hare-like rodents.

Gamilaraay

Pronunciation

• /maɻa/

Alternative spellings

• mārā, márá
• murra, mŭrră

Etymology

Noun

1. hand
2. finger

Quotations

• 1856, William Ridley, On the Kamilaroi Tribe of Australians and Their Dialect, in Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, vol. 4

  Hand . . . mārā

  Fingers . . mŭrră.

• 1856, William Ridley, gurre kamilaroi, or Kamilaroi Sayings

  immanuel murra kawāni miedul, goe, “miēdūl waria.”

  Immanuel by hand took the girl, said “damsel arise”.

• 1873, William Ridley, Australian Languages and Traditions, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 2

  Hand | murra

• 1903, R. H. Mathews, Languages of the Kamilaroi and Other Aboriginal Tribes of New South Wales, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 33

  Hand .... .... | murra

References

• Alpher, Barry. 2004. "Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma." Claire Bowern, Harold Koch (eds.) Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
• Austin, Peter. 1993. A Reference Dictionary of Gamilaraay, northern New South Wales.

Indonesian

Noun

1. danger

Maltese

Etymology

Noun

1. woman

Martuthunira

Pronunciation

• /maɻa/

Etymology

Noun

1. hand

References

• Alpher, Barry. 2004. "Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma." Claire Bowern, Harold Koch (eds.) Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
• Dench, Alan Charles. 1995. Martuthunira: A Language of the Pilbara Region of Western Australia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Series C-125.

Nyunga

Alternative spellings

• marra
• maar (eastern pronunciation)

Noun

1. (northern dialect) hand

Old English

Etymology

Adjective

1. more

Panyjima

Pronunciation

• /maɻa/

Etymology

Noun

1. Hand.

References

• Alpher, Barry. 2004. "Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma." Claire Bowern, Harold Koch (eds.) Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
• Dench, Alan. 1991. ‘Panyjima’. R.M.W. Dixon, Barry J. Blake (eds.) The Handbook of Australian Languages, Volume 4. Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, 125–244.

Swedish

Etymology 1

Noun

1. a mythological creature blamed for giving people nightmares

Etymology 2

Noun

1. short for maratonlopp; a marathon race

Wangaaybuwan-Ngiyambaa

Noun

1. hand

Social groups

• Mara people, in northeastern India and western Myanmar
• Mara people (Australia), a tribe of indigenous Australians or Aborigines
• Mara Salvatrucha, a violent street gang in Mexico, Central America, and the United States
• Maravar a dominant caste in Tamil Nadu state in India
• MARA Mature Age Recruitment Alliance. An alliance of guilds for the over 30's playing the free online game Guild Wars

People

• John Andrew Mara, a 19th century Canadian politician, rancher and merchant
• Mara Wilson, child actress
• Tim Mara, former owner of the New York Giants football team
• Wellington Mara, former owner of the New York Giants, son of Tim
• John Mara, current co-owner of the New York Giants, son of Wellington
• Kate Mara, American actress
• nickname of Martti Ahtisaari, a career diplomat and former President of Finland
• nickname for Maria (given name) in the Croatian language and Bulgarian language
• nickname for Tamara

Geography

• Mara, Tanzania, an administrative region of Tanzania
• Mara (SS), a commune on the Italian island of Sardinia
• Mara, South Africa, a small town in South Africa
• Mara River (Iza), a river in Romania
• Mara (torrent), a stream of Italy and Switzerland
• Mara River, a river of Kenya and Tanzania
• Masai Mara, a reserve near the Mara River
• Mara, Spain, a municipality

Culture

• Mara (goddess), from Latvian mythology
• Mara (folklore), a wraith-like creature in Germanic and particularly Scandinavian folklore, thought to cause nightmares.
• Mara, also Marena and Morana, in Slavic peoples mythology, the goddess of darkness, death, winter, the Moon and horror
• Naomi (Bible), self-named Mara, meaning "bitterness", after she suffered the deaths of her husband and her two sons
• Mara, a Sanskrit and Pali word meaning death-bringing or the destroying
  • Mara (Hindu goddess), the goddess of death according to Hindu mythology
  • Mara (demon), a "demon" of the Buddhist cosmology, the personification of Temptation
  • Sri Mara or Mara Varma, an honorific title of the Pandya kings of south India
  • In Hindu mythology, a mantra told to Valmiki to chant
• Mara, an abbreviation of Mayura

Fiction

• the Mara (Doctor Who), an evil being in two Doctor Who serials
• a Celtic shamaness known for moving barefoot on any surface
• Marller ("Mara"), a demon in the manga and anime series Oh My Goddess!
• Mara Jade, a character in the Star Wars Expanded Universe
• lead character in the Raymond E. Feist / Janny Wurts "Empire" Trilogy
• in the Childe Cycle of Gordon R. Dickson, one of the two homeworlds of the Exotics
• a goddess in the video game series The Elder Scrolls
• Mara, Lord of Illusion, a powerful character in Roger Zelazny's novel Lord of Light
• in the animated series BlackStar, a sorceress from the planet Sagar
• one of the Deities in The Belgariad, by David Eddings
• Mara (comics), a character in the Micronauts comic book series
• Mara, the main character in the Eloise Jarvis McGraw book Mara: Daughter of the Nile
• the SF Mara, a fast and agile Shivan fighter in the game FreeSpace 2
• Mara, a character in Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann's "A Step Towards Gomorrah"
• Mara is the antagonist of Disneyland's Indiana Jones Adventure attraction
• Mara, a magic seller in the game Diablo II Lord of Destruction
• Mara, a character inn the Redwall series by Brian Jacques
• Mara, a character in the animated series The New Adventures of He-Man
• Mara Aramov, the antagonist of the Syphon Filter series
• Mara, in the game The Matrix Online, the main location for commerce and combat on non-hostile servers
• Mara, a character in Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo

Organisations

• Majlis Amanah Rakyat, literally People's Trust Council, a government-linked company in Malaysia
• Migration Agents Registration Authority an Australian organisation that registers and monitors Migration Agents

Other

• Mara (mammal), a species of the cavy family
• Mara the Lioness, animal actor in the movie Born Free
• Mara (album), a 1995 album by Scottish band Runrig
• MARA, a dental appliance used to correct an over or underbite
• MARA (Law), the Michigan Antitrust Reform Act, passed in 1984