Bara
Bara or Barah may refer to:
Names
- Bara (name), male Arabic given name, female Jewish given name, surname in southern France and Aragon in Spain, and Bára is a female Icelandic given name
People
- Bara ibn Malik, companion of the prophet Mohammed
- Bara people, ethnicity in central southern Madagascar
- Bara Malagasy, the dialect spoken there
- Tetsuo Sakaibara, Japanese musician and ex-member of the noise group Merzbow
- Joseph Bara (1779 – 1793), young republican soldier mythologised by the French First Republic
- Theda Bara (1885 – 1955), American silent film actress
- Guy Bara (1923 – 2003), Belgian comic artist
Locations
- Bara, Iran, village in Kurdistan Province, Iran
- Bara, East Lothian, parish in Scotland
- Bara Hundred, locality in Scania, Sweden
- Bara, Sweden, Svedala Municipality, Sweden
- Bara, Mali, village and rural commune in Mali
- Bara, Nigeria, town in southwestern Nigeria
- Bara, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-west Poland
- Bara, Trebišov, village in Trebišov District, Slovakia
- Barah, Sudan, town in Kurdufan, central Sudan
- Bara, Syria, "dead city" and present day village in north west Syriah
Locations within Romania
- Bara, Timiș, commune in Timiş County, Romania
- Bâra, commune in Neamţ County, Romania
- Bâra, village in Bereni Commune, Mureş County, Romania
- Bâra, village in Balta Doamnei Commune, Prahova County, Romania
Locations within South Asia
- Bara, FATA, town in the Khyber Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan
- Bara, Punjab, village and archeological site of the Indus Valley Civilization in Punjab
- Bara District, Nepal
- Bara Tehsil, district in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan
Rivers
- Bara River, Khyber Agency, Pakistan
- Bära, river in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Other
- Bara (film), a 1980 Indian Kannada film
- Bara culture, strand of the Indus Valley Civilization in Bronze Age India
- Bara (drum), spherical hand drum with a gourd body, used in Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire
- Bara brith, traditional Welsh fruitcake or fruited bread
- Bara (genre), term for Japanese media, especially comics, aimed at gay men
- abbreviation of Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa
- Vada (food) or Bara, savoury fritter-type snack from South India