Ara

Ara or ara may refer to:

Abbreviations

• Arabic language, from its ISO 639-2 language code
• L-arabinose operon (ara operon)

Arts, media, and entertainment

• Ara (film), a 2008 Turkish drama directed by Ümit Ünal
• Ara (newspaper), a Catalan-language daily newspaper from Barcelona

Toponymy

• 'Ara, an Israeli-Arab village
• Ara (lake), Norway
• Ara, Armenia
• Ara, Bihar, India
• Ara, Iran
• Ara Gaya, a city-state kingdom in the Gaya confederacy, in modern day Haman County, South Korea
• Arakawa River (disambiguation), also known as Ara, several rivers in Japan
• River Ara, Ireland

Given name

• Ara, a diminutive of the Russian feminine given name Avrora (a form of Aurora)
• Ara Bartlett (fl. 1825–1880), American lawyer and judge

Armenian given name

• Ara the Beautiful, Armenian legendary figure
• Ara Dinkjian (born 1958), Armenian oud player and composer
• Ara Parseghian (born 1923), American college football coach

Korean given name

• Go Ara (born 1990), South Korean actress and model
• Yoo Ara (born 1992), South Korean singer and dancer; leader of the girl group Hello Venus

Surname

• Guido Ara (1888–1975), Italian association football player
• Seiji Ara (born 1974), Japanese race car driver

Other uses

• The Latin for altar
  • Ara (constellation), "The Altar" constellation, as standardized by the International Astronomical Union
  • Ara Pacis, the Augustan Altar of Peace
  • Great Altar of Hercules, also known as the Ara Maxima
• Ara (drink), traditional Bhutanese wine
• Ara (genus), a genus of macaw (parrot)
• Ara Institute of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
• Project Ara, a modular phone initiative by Google

See also

• ARA (disambiguation) (acronym)
• Arra (disambiguation)