Ara
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Ara or ara may refer to:
Abbreviations[edit]
- Arabic language, from its ISO 639-2 language code
- L-arabinose operon (ara operon)
Arts, media, and entertainment[edit]
- Ara (film), a 2008 Turkish drama directed by Ümit Ünal
- Ara (newspaper), a Catalan-language daily newspaper from Barcelona
Toponymy[edit]
- '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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Guido Ara (1888–1975), Italian association football player
- Seiji Ara (born 1974), Japanese race car driver
Other uses[edit]
- 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[edit]
- ARA (disambiguation) (acronym)
- Arra (disambiguation)
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