Zara

See also: zara, zarā, zară, and žara

English

Alternative forms

• Zarah

Etymology

A 20th-century variant of Sarah, or explained as Arabic زَهْرَة (zahra, “flower”); given to the daughter of Princess Anne in 1981.

Proper noun

Zara (plural Zaras)

1. A female given name.
   • 2021 August 18, Rebecca Cairns, “This teenage aviator hopes to be the youngest woman to fly solo around the world”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     While the plane is “perfectly capable” of making the trip without these modifications, Zara’s father Sam Rutherford says these changes have given both him and Zara an extra sense of security.

   1. A female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], variant of Sarah.
   2. A female given name from Arabic.

Anagrams

• Azar, Raza, zaar

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ^*/ˈd͡za.ra/
• Rhymes: -ara

Proper noun

Zara f

1. Zara
2. the letter Z in the Italian spelling alphabet
3. Zadar (a city in Croatia)

Derived terms

• zaratino (“native or inhabitant of Zadar”)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zara/

Proper noun

Zara f (Cyrillic spelling Зара)

1. a female given name

Declension

    Declension of Zara

	singular	plural
nominative	Zara	Zare
genitive	Zare	Zara
dative	Zari	Zarama
accusative	Zaru	Zare
vocative	Zaro	Zare
locative	Zari	Zarama
instrumental	Zarom	Zarama

Further reading

• “Zara”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2025

Turkish

Zara ilçesi

Proper noun

Zara

1. a district of Sivas Province, Turkey

Declension

Declension of Zara

	singular	plural
nominative	Zara	Zaralar / Zara'lar
accusative	Zara'yı	Zaraları / Zara'ları
dative	Zara'ya	Zaralara / Zara'lara
locative	Zara'da	Zaralarda / Zara'larda
ablative	Zara'dan	Zaralardan / Zara'lardan
genitive	Zara'nın	Zaraların / Zara'ların

Possessive forms of Zara

	singular	plural
benim (my)	Zara'm	Zaralarım Zara'larım
senin (your)	Zara'n	Zaraların Zara'ların
onun (his/her/its)	Zara'sı	Zaraları Zara'ları
bizim (our)	Zara'mız	Zaralarımız Zara'larımız
sizin (your)	Zara'nız	Zaralarınız Zara'larınız
onların (their)	Zara'sı Zaraları Zara'ları	Zaraları Zara'ları

Derived terms

• Zaralı