Mara
Mara may refer to:
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People
- Mara (name), list of people with this name
- Mara people, in northeastern India and western Myanmar
- Mara language, a language spoken by Mara people
- Mara (Tagin), a tribe in Arunachal Pradesh
- 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
Places
- Mara, Aragon, a municipality in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain
- Mara, Iran, a village in Iran
- Mara, Isfahan, a village in Iran
- Mara, Kerman, a village in Iran
- Mara, a village in Desești Commune, Maramureş County, Romania
- Mara, Sardinia, a commune on the Italian island of Sardinia
- Mara, Spain, a municipality
- Mara, Tanzania, an administrative region of Tanzania
- Mara, South Africa, a small town in South Africa
- Mara (torrent), a stream of Switzerland and Italy
- Mara District, Cotabambas, Peru
- Mara Mountain, a mountain in Greenland, and the closest mountain to the North Pole
- Mara Provincial Park, a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada
- Mara Provincial Park (Ontario), a provincial park located near Orillia, Ontario, Canada
- Mara Region, an administrative division in Tanzania
- Mara River, a river of Kenya and Tanzania
- Mara River (Iza), a river in Romania
- Mara River (Nunavut), a river in Nunavut, Canada
- The Mara, or Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya
- Masai Mara, a reserve in Kenya near the Mara River
- Mara-do, an island of South Korea
Culture
- Mara (folklore), a specter or wraith-like creature in Germanic and particularly Scandinavian folklore
- Mara (goddess), from Latvian mythology
- Mara, also Marzanna, Murava, Morana, Moréna or Morena, in Slavic mythology, the goddess of darkness, death, winter, the Moon and horror
- Mara (demon), a "demon" of the Buddhist cosmology, the personification of Temptation
- Mara (Hindu goddess), the goddess of death according to Hindu mythology
- Sri Mara or Mara Varma, an honorific title of the Pandya kings of south India
- Mara, a mantra told to Valmiki to chant in Hindu mythology
- Mara, an abbreviation of Mayura (Sanskrit word for peacock)
Fiction
- Mara, an 1894 novel written by Ioan Slavici
- Mara, one of two homeworlds of the Exotics in the Childe Cycle of Gordon R. Dickson
- The Mara (Doctor Who), an evil being in two Doctor Who serials
- Mara Jade, a character in the Star Wars Expanded Universe
- Mara of the Wilderness, a 1965 adventure film
- Mara, a goddess of the Nine Divines in The Elder Scrolls properties
- Mara, a recurring demon in the Shin Megami Tensei series
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
- Mercury Amateur Radio Association (MARA), an amateur radio organization previously associated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Other
- "Mara", a song by Country Joe and the Fish
- Mara (album), a 1995 album by Scottish band Runrig
- Mara (mammal), a species of the cavy family
- Mara the Lioness, animal actor in the movie Born Free
- MaraDNS, an open-source Domain Name System (DNS) server software
Military and transport
- SS Mara, a Lake tanker operated in Lake Maracaibo by Lago Oil and Transport Company
- Shell Mara, a Lake tanker operated in Lake Maracaibo by Shell Oil
- Mirage 5P Mara, an upgraded version of the Dassault Mirage 5 in service with the Argentine Air Force
- "MARA", an antitank missile developed in Argentina by CITEDEF and DGFM
See also
- Maraa
- Maras (disambiguation)