Mara

Mara may refer to:

Contents 1 Social groups 2 People 3 Places 4 Culture 5 Fiction 6 Organisations 7 Other 8 See also

Social groups

• Mara people, in northeastern India and western Myanmar
• Mara language, a language spoken by Mara people
• Mara Salvatrucha, a violent criminal gang in Mexico, Central America, Canada, and the United States
• Maravar, a dominant caste in Tamil Nadu state in India
• Mara (Tagin), a tribe in Arunachal Pradesh

People

• Mara (name), list of people with this name

Places

• Mara District, Cotabambas, Peru
• Mara, Tanzania, an administrative region of Tanzania
• Mara (SS), a commune on the Italian island of Sardinia
• Mara, South Africa, a small town in South Africa
• Mara River (Iza), a river in Romania
• Mara, a village in Deseşti Commune, Maramureş County, Romania
• Mara (torrent), a stream of Italy and Switzerland
• Mara River, a river of Kenya and Tanzania
• Masai Mara, a reserve in Kenya near the Mara River
• Mara, Spain, a municipality

Culture

• Mara (goddess), from Latvian mythology
• Mara (folklore), a specter or wraith-like creature in Germanic and particularly Scandinavian folklore
• Mara, also Marzanna, Murava, Morana, Moréna or Morena, in Slavic peoples mythology, the goddess of darkness, death, winter, the Moon and horror
• Mara (Hindu goddess), the goddess of death according to Hindu mythology
• Mara (demon), a "demon" of the Buddhist cosmology, the personification of Temptation
• Sri Mara or Mara Varma, an honorific title of the Pandya kings of south India
• In Hindu mythology, a mantra told to Valmiki to chant
• Mara, an abbreviation of Mayura (Sanskrit word for peacock)

Fiction

• The Mara (Doctor Who), an evil being in two Doctor Who serials
• in the Childe Cycle of Gordon R. Dickson, one of the two homeworlds of the Exotics

Organisations

• Majlis Amanah Rakyat, literally People's Trust Council, a government-linked company in Malaysia
• Migration Agents Registration Authority an Australian organisation that registers and monitors Migration Agents
• Dance Club Mara, a formation dance team, Minsk, Belarus
• Mara (supermarket), a Romanian supermarket chain

Other

• Mara (mammal), a species of the cavy family
• Mara the Lioness, animal actor in the movie Born Free
• Mara (album), a 1995 album by Scottish band Runrig
• "Mara", a song by Country Joe and the Fish

See also

• Maras (disambiguation)

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