Klara

See also: klara, klára, and Klára

English

Proper noun

Klara

1. A female given name, variant of Clara.
   • 1909 April 15, “Isham-Clark”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 March 2026:

     Miss Lois Katherine Clark, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry O. Clark of East Orange, N. J., was married last night at 8 o’clock in Grace Church, Orange, to Edward Sprague Isham of Burlington, Vt. […] The maid of honor was Miss Klara Clark, sister of the bride, and the bridesmaids were Miss Elsie Clark, another sister; Miss Isabel King, and Miss Mary Johnson of East Orange, and Mrs. John Fuller of Honesdale, Penn.

   • 2017 October 31, Mark Oppenheimer, “On Halloween, parents have no choice but to wade into fraught cultural politics”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[2], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 October 2017:

     She is as game for the postmodern costume ideas of our eldest, Rebekah — in 2013, she went as a washer/dryer set — as for the classical preferences of our third daughter, Klara, who has been, inter alia, a flower and a ballerina.

   • 2020 August 3, Jemma Carr, “Don't mess with Macey! Hero Staffordshire bull terrier chases off four machete-wielding burglars after gang broke into her family's home in confrontation caught on CCTV”, in Daily Mail‎^[3], London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 August 2020:

     In their escape, the culprits dented the wing mirror of a mobility car used to transport youngest daughter Klara, seven. There may not be much physical damage done to the house, but Mr Davis and his girls Kayli, 15, Kortney, 12, and Klara are all emotionally scarred by the attack.

Danish

Proper noun

Klara

1. a female given name, variant of Clara

Faroese

Proper noun

Klara

1. a female given name

Usage notes

Matronymics

• Klara's son: Klaruson
• Klara's daughter: Klarudóttir

Declension

	singular
	indefinite
nominative	Klara
accusative	Klaru
dative	Klaru
genitive	Klaru

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈklaːʁa]

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• Hyphenation: Kla‧ra

Proper noun

Klara f (proper noun, genitive Klara, diminutive Klärchen n)

1. a female given name, variant of Clara

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰlaːra/

  Rhymes: -aːra

Proper noun

Klara f (proper noun, genitive singular Klöru)

1. a female given name

Declension

Declension of Klara (sg-only feminine)

indefinite singular
nominative	Klara
accusative	Klöru
dative	Klöru
genitive	Klöru

Norwegian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /¹klɑːra/, (less common) /²klɑːra/

Proper noun

Klara

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Clara

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkla.ra/

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• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: Kla‧ra

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin Clāra.

Proper noun

Klara f (diminutive Klarcia)

1. a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Clara

Declension

Declension of Klara

	singular	plural
nominative	Klara	Klary
genitive	Klary	Klar
dative	Klarze	Klarom
accusative	Klarę	Klary
instrumental	Klarą	Klarami
locative	Klarze	Klarach
vocative	Klaro	Klary

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Proper noun

Klara m pers

1. genitive/accusative singular of Klar

Further reading

• Klara in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Alternative forms

• Clara

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Klara c (genitive Klaras)

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Clara

Anagrams

• lakar