Sara

See also: sara, sarà, Sára, Sâra, săra, šara, Sárá, and Appendix:Variations of "sara"

English

Etymology

From Latin Sara (Sarah).

Pronunciation

  • like Sarah, which see
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  • Rhymes: -ɛɹə
  • Rhymes: -ɑːɹə

Proper noun

Sara

  1. A female given name from Hebrew, an alternative form of Sarah.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, [] (King James Version), London: [] Robert Barker, [], OCLC 964384981, Hebrews 11:11:
      Through faith also Sara her selfe receiued strength to conceiue seede, and was deliuered of a child when she was past age, because she iudged him faithful who had promised.
    • 1850 Dinah Craik, Olive, Chapman and Hall, page 151:
      Olive learnt that her young beauty's name, so far from being anything so fine as Maddalena, was plain Sarah — or Sara, as its owner took care to explain. Olive was rather disappointed - but she thought of Coleridge's ladye love; consoled herself, and tried to console the young lady, with repeating
      My pensive Sara! thy soft cheek reclined, &c.
      At which Miss Sara Derwent laughed, and asked who wrote that very pretty poetry?
    • 2008, Philip Hensher, The Northern Clemency, Harpercollins, →ISBN, page 175:
      'I wish I was called Sara,' she said out loud.
      'Sarah?' her mother said. 'Why the heck is being called Sarah better than being called Tracy?'
      'Not Sarah, Sara,' Tracy said. 'There's no h, you say Saaara.'

Translations

Anagrams


Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /saːra/, [ˈsɑːʁɑ]

Proper noun

Sara

  1. (biblical) Sarah.
  2. a female given name, often also spelled Sarah

Dutch

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Dutch sara, from Latin Sara, from Ancient Greek Σᾱ́ρᾱ (Sā́rā), from Hebrew שָׂרָה.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsaː.raː/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: Sa‧ra

Proper noun

Sara f

  1. (biblical) Sarah
    Synonyms: Sarai, Saraï
  2. a female given name from Hebrew
  • Saartje

Anagrams


Ewe

Proper noun

Sara

  1. a female given name
    • Ŋɔŋlɔ Kɔkɔe La le Eʋegbe me, Hebritɔwo 11:11
      Le xɔse me Sara ke hɑ̃ kpɔ ŋusẽ bena, wòfɔ fu, eye wòdzi vi le eƒe nyagɑ̃kuku me; elabena ebu amesi na ŋugbedodoe la nuteƒewɔlae.

Finnish

Etymology

Modern variant of Saara (Sarah), popularized in the 1980s. Sometimes also associated with the Finnish noun sara (sedge).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɑrɑ/, [ˈs̠ɑrɑ]
  • IPA(key): /ˈsɑːrɑ/, [ˈs̠ɑːrɑ] (older pronunciation, perceived as Swedish influence)
  • Rhymes: -ɑrɑ
  • Syllabification(key): Sa‧ra

Proper noun

Sara

  1. a female given name
    • 1927 Anni Swan, Sara ja Sarri, WSOY (1966), page 14:
      Sarri niiasi ja tunsi olonsa kovin kömpelöksi.
      "Ruustinna lähetti terveisiä", hän sai soperretuksi.
      "Kiitän. Mikä on nimesi?"
      "Saara."
      "Kuinka hauskaa! Aivan sama nimi kuin minullakin."
      Vanha rouva kääntyi puhujan puoleen.
      "Sara, sinäkö jalkeilla näin aikaisin? - - -"
    • 1982, Eeva Joenpelto, Elämän rouva, rouva Glad, WSOY, →ISBN, page 133:
      Ja jos voisitte pyhästä saarnatuolistanne lausua etunimen Sara, ei Saara. Siis Sara Elisa Glad.
      (please add an English translation of this quote)
    • 1995, Jari Tervo, Pyhiesi yhteyteen, WSOY, →ISBN, page 89:
      ―Mulla on sama nimi näyttelijän kans.
      ―Kenen.
      ―Isi sanoo niin.
      ―Mikä nimi se on.
      Sara.
      ―Se on hieno nimi.
      Sara Suurperkiö, kuusi vuotta.
      (please add an English translation of this quote)
    • 2002 Leena Lehtolainen, Kun luulit unohtaneesi, Tammi, →ISBN, page :
      Sara oli inhonnut sukunimeään lapsesta asti, ja kymmenkunta vuotta sitten hän oli vaihtanut sen Seliniksi, joka oli ollut mummon isänäidin tyttönimi. Samalla hävisi Saarasta toinen a, mutta äiti ja Veikko kutsuivat häntä edelleen Saaraksi.

Declension

Inflection of Sara (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative Sara Sarat
genitive Saran Sarojen
partitive Saraa Saroja
illative Saraan Saroihin
singular plural
nominative Sara Sarat
accusative nom. Sara Sarat
gen. Saran
genitive Saran Sarojen
Sarainrare
partitive Saraa Saroja
inessive Sarassa Saroissa
elative Sarasta Saroista
illative Saraan Saroihin
adessive Saralla Saroilla
ablative Saralta Saroilta
allative Saralle Saroille
essive Sarana Saroina
translative Saraksi Saroiksi
instructive Saroin
abessive Saratta Saroitta
comitative Saroineen
Possessive forms of Sara (type kala)
possessor singular plural
1st person Sarani Saramme
2nd person Sarasi Saranne
3rd person Saransa

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sa.ʁa/

Proper noun

Sara f

  1. (biblical) Sarah
  2. a female given name, usually spelled Sarah

Anagrams


Galician

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /saɾɐ/
  • Homophone: sara
  • Rhymes: -aɾɐ

Proper noun

Sara f

  1. a female given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Sarah
  2. (biblical) Sarah (wife of Abraham)

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈzaːʁa]
  • (file)
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: Sa‧ra

Proper noun

Sara

  1. (biblical) Sarah
  2. a female given name from Biblical Hebrew; variant form Sarah

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsaːra/
  • Rhymes: -aːra

Proper noun

Sara f

  1. (biblical) Sarah.
  2. a female given name from Hebrew

Declension


Italian

Etymology

From Latin Sāra, from Ancient Greek Σᾱ́ρᾱ (Sā́rā), from Biblical Hebrew שָׂרָה (Śārāh).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsa.ra/
  • Rhymes: -ara
  • Hyphenation: Sà‧ra

Proper noun

Sara f

  1. (biblical) Sarah (wife of Abraham)
  2. a female given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Sarah

Further reading

Anagrams


Japanese

Romanization

Sara

  1. Rōmaji transcription of サラ

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Σᾱ́ρᾱ (Sā́rā), from שָׂרָה (Śārāh)

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Sāra f sg (genitive Sārae); first declension

  1. a female given name from Hebrew

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Sāra
Genitive Sārae
Dative Sārae
Accusative Sāram
Ablative Sārā
Vocative Sāra

Norwegian

Proper noun

Sara

  1. (biblical) Sarah.
  2. a female given name, recently also spelled Sarah

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsa.ɾɐ/

  • Homophone: sara
  • Rhymes: -aɾɐ
  • Hyphenation: Sa‧ra

Proper noun

Sara f

  1. a female given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Sarah
  2. (biblical) Sarah (wife of Abraham)

Alternative forms

Proper noun

Sara m

  1. Sahara (a desert in northern Africa)

Slovene

Proper noun

Sara ?

  1. a female given name

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsaɾa/ [ˈsa.ɾa]
  • Rhymes: -aɾa
  • Syllabification: Sa‧ra

Proper noun

Sara f

  1. (biblical) Sarah
  2. a female given name

Quotations

  • 1602La Santa Biblia (antigua versión de Casiodoro de Reina), rev., Génesis 17:15
  •  : Dijo también Dios á Abraham: A Sarai tu mujer no la llamarás Sarai, mas Sara será su nombre.

Swedish

Etymology

Vulgate Latin Sara, from Hebrew. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1464.

Proper noun

Sara c (genitive Saras)

  1. (biblical) Sarah.
  2. a female given name, recently also spelled Sarah

References

  • Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
  • Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 62 008 females with the given name Sara (compared to 6971 named Sarah) living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1980s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

Anagrams


Walloon

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sa.ˈʀa/

Proper noun

Sara

  1. the Sahara
  2. a female given name
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