Zara

name

name ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A female given name.

    "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."

  2. 2
    A female given name.; A female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], variant of Sarah.
  3. 3
    A female given name.; A female given name from Arabic.

Example

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"Afterwards his brother came out, on whose hand was the scarlet thread: and she called his name Zara."

Etymology

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

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