Sara

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

English

Etymology

From Latin Sara (“Sarah”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsæɹə/, /ˈseəɹə/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsæɹə/

Proper noun

Sara

1. A female given name, an alternative form of Sarah.
   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), 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 9780007174799, 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

female given name — see Sarah

Anagrams

• ARSA, ASAR, Aras, Raša, SAAR, Saar, aras, rasa

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saːra/, [ˈsɑːʁɑ]

Proper noun

Sara

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

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Sara ?

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

Related terms

• Saartje
• Sarah

Anagrams

• aars, raas

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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.

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Finnish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (modern) IPA^(key): [ˈsɑrɑ]
• (old, perceived as a Swedish spelling) IPA^(key): [ˈsɑːrɑ]
• Hyphenation: 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 951-0-11426-X, page 133:

     Ja jos voisitte pyhästä saarnatuolistanne lausua etunimen Sara, ei Saara. Siis Sara Elisa Glad.

   • 1995 Jari Tervo, Pyhiesi yhteyteen, WSOY, ISBN 951-0-20492-7, 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.

   • 2002 Leena Lehtolainen, Kun luulit unohtaneesi, Tammi, ISBN 951-31-2498-3, 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

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French

Proper noun

Sara

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

Anagrams

• aras, rasa

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈzaːʀa]

• Audio (Austria)

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• Hyphenation: Sa‧ra

Proper noun

Sara

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

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaːra/
• Rhymes: -aːra

Proper noun

Sara f

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

Declension

declension of Sara

f-w1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	Sara	Saran	Sörur	Sörurnar
accusative	Söru	Söruna	Sörur	Sörurnar
dative	Söru	Sörunni	Sörum	Sörunum
genitive	Söru	Sörunnar	Sara	Saranna

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Italian

Proper noun

Sara f

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

Anagrams

• arsa
• rasa

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Sara

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

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Homophone: sara

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Sara f

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

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• Saara (Brazil)
• Sahara (obsolete)

Proper noun

Sara m (Portugal)

1. Sahara (a desert in northern Africa)

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɾa/

Proper noun

Sara f

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

Quotations

• 1602 — La 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.

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Swedish

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Sara

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

References

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, ISBN 91-21-10937-0
• [1] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, ISBN 9119551622: 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.