Tara

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tara"

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːɹə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛəɹə/, /ˈtæɹə/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑːɹə

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Irish Teamhrach, genitive of Teamhair, from Old Irish Temair (literally “high place”). The female given name is derived from the name of the plantation in Gone with the Wind, named for the place in Ireland.

Proper noun

Tara

1. An Irish place name, associated with the Hill of Tara, seat of ancient Irish kings.
   • 1808, Thomas Moore, The Harp of Tara:

     No more to chiefs and ladies bright
     The harp of Tara swells

   1. A small settlement in County Meath, Ireland, near the Hill of Tara (Irish grid ref N 9458)
2. A female given name transferred from the place name, of 20th century and later usage.
   • 2025 March 30, Nayeli Jaramillo-Plata, “‘A huge blow’: USDA cuts threaten to throw Wisconsin’s local food supply into disarray”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Many had already taken out loans and purchased equipment in preparation for the program’s continuation, said Tara Roberts-Turner, general manager of the Wisconsin Food Hub Cooperative (WFHC), a farmer-led distribution network serving more than 400 farmers and the state’s largest food hub.

3. A male given name.
   • 1952, Janice Holt Giles, Tara's Healing:

     the story of Tara Cochrane, a war veteran, a physician, and a burned-out man who describes himself in terms of a bad cigarette

4. Some other places named Tara, all likely after the Irish hill:
   1. A community in Arran-Elderslie municipality, Bruce County, Ontario, Canada.
   2. An unincorporated community in Manatee County, Florida, United States.
   3. A township in Swift County, Minnesota, United States.
   4. A township in Traverse County, Minnesota.
   5. A town in the Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.

Derived terms

• Tara Hills

Related terms

• Tarah

Translations

Irish place name

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 塔拉 (tǎlā)

• Irish: Teamhair f

Etymology 2

18th century Eastern Tibetan thangka, with the Green Tara (Samaya Tara Yogini) in the center and the Blue, Red, White and Yellow taras in the corners, Rubin Museum of Art

From Sanskrit तारा (tārā, “star”).

Proper noun

Tara

1. (Buddhism) A female Buddha typically associated with Buddhist tantra practice as preserved in Tibetan Buddhism. She is the "mother of liberation", and represents the virtues of success in work and achievements.
2. A female given name from Sanskrit.

Translations

female Buddha

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 多羅 / 多罗 (zh) (Duōluó)

• Japanese: 多羅 (ja) (Tara)
• Korean: 다라 (ko) (dara)
• Marathi: तारा f (tārā)
• Sanskrit: तारा (sa) f (tārā)
• Sikkimese: སྒྲོལ་མ (sgrol ma)
• Tamil: தாரை (ta) (tārai)
• Telugu: తార (te) f (tāra)
• Tibetan: སྒྲོལ་མ (sgrol ma)

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun

Tara (plural Taras)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Tara is the 40082^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 547 individuals. Tara is most common among White (58.5%), Asian/Pacific Islander (19.38%) and Hispanic/Latino (14.44%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Tara”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Etymology 4

Proper noun

Tara

1. A barangay of Bolinao, Pangasinan, Philippines.
2. A barangay of Coron, Palawan, Philippines.
3. A barangay of Sipocot, Camarines Sur, Philippines.
4. A barangay of Mabinay, Negros Oriental, Philippines.

Anagrams

• taar, ATRA, Arta, A.A.R.T., rata, Atar, atar

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian tara, from Arabic طَرْح (ṭarḥ, “subtraction”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaːʁa/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Ta‧ra

Noun

Tara f (genitive Tara, plural Taren)

1. (business) tare (the empty weight of a container)

   Synonyms: Taragewicht, Verpackungsgewicht

   Coordinate terms: Brutto, Netto

Declension

Declension of Tara [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Tara	die	Taren
genitive	einer	der	Tara	der	Taren
dative	einer	der	Tara	den	Taren
accusative	eine	die	Tara	die	Taren

Hyponyms

• Durchschnittstara, Effektivtara, Prozenttara

Derived terms

• austarieren
• tarieren

Related terms

• Tara-Funktion, Tarasatz, Taraverordnung, Tarazuschlag

Further reading

• Tara (Gewicht) on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “Tara” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Tara”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008–
• “Tara” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• “Tara” in Duden online

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʰaːra/

  Rhymes: -aːra

Proper noun

Tara f (proper noun, genitive singular Töru)

1. a female given name

Declension

Declension of Tara (sg-only feminine)

indefinite singular
nominative	Tara
accusative	Töru
dative	Töru
genitive	Töru

Japanese

Romanization

Tara

1. Rōmaji transcription of たら

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /târa/

Proper noun

Tȁra f (Cyrillic spelling Та̏ра)

1. a female given name

Declension

    Declension of Tara

	singular	plural
nominative	Tara	Tare
genitive	Tare	Tara
dative	Tari	Tarama
accusative	Taru	Tare
vocative	Taro	Tare
locative	Tari	Tarama
instrumental	Tarom	Tarama

Further reading

• “Tara”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2026