what does the name Mara mean?

Answer 1

Origin=Greek Meaning=eternally beautiful

Mara strikes most people as an apt name for someone sweet, quiet, and down to earth. What a nice name for a caring mother! Some picture Mara as a more serious type. Though the name has Greek roots, people guess Mara might be Spanish.

Answer 2

In Buddhism Mara has two roles - closely related. One is that of a kind of daemonic tempter. The other is that of chief of the deities of the sense realm. They are actually just aspects of the same thing. Mara doesn't like beings escaping from his/her/its realm so it will apply temptation.

So you might think of Mara as a powerful, jealous seducer (or seductress - but traditionally given a male identity).

Answer 3

Mara (mammal), a species of the cavy family . LOL
Mara, Tanzania, an administrative region of Tanzania
Mara River, a river of Kenya and Tanzania
Mara (goddess): a Goddess in Latvian mythology
The Mara (Doctor Who), an evil being in two Doctor Who serials, Kinda and Snakedance.
MARA, an appliance mounted to the molars used to correct an over/underbite

Answer 4

Geordie definition=mate,i.e.speaking to a friend=r yi alreet mara.

Answer 5

-Mara is a Sanskrit and Pali word meaning death-bringing or the destroying.
-A nickname for Tamara
-Mara (Hindu goddess): goddess of death according to Hindu mythology
-Mara (demon): a "demon" of the Buddhist cosmology, the personification of Temptation.
-In Hindu mythology, Valmiki was told to chant mara as a mantra in order to become rich. Valmiki found himself chanting rama rama rama instead of mara mara mara, and thus was enlightened.
-MARA, an appliance mounted to the molars used to correct an over/underbite
-Mara (goddess): a Goddess in Latvian mythology
-Mara (folklore): a creature in Germanic and particularly Scandinavian folklore, thought to cause nightmares.
-"Mara" or "Marena" (in Belarusian mythology): the god of darkness and death.
-In the Bible, Naomi called herself Mara, meaning "bitterness", after she suffered the deaths of her husband and her two sons; see Book of Ruth.
-Mara, Tanzania, an administrative region of Tanzania
-Mara, Italy, an Italian commune in the province of Sassari in the island of Sardinia
-Mara, South Africa, a small town in South Africa
-Mara River, a river of Kenya and Tanzania
-Masai Mara, a reserve near the Mara River
-Mara River (Romania), a river in Romania
-Mara, Spain, a municipality (pop. 199) in the Spanish province of Zaragoza or Saragossa, in the autonomous community of Aragon
-Mara people, in southern part of Mizoram, a state of the Republic of India and Chin State and Rakhine State of western part of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma
-Mara people (Australia), an Australian Aboriginal tribe
-Mara (mammal), a species of the cavy family

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Answer 6

In the Spanish dictionary it says it means: Gangs or Gang.Didn't know that one myself. I'm sure it has to have another meaning.Nothing came up in French. It's a beautiful name anyway.
God bless.

Answer 7

"mara"(my bitterness) is how a bible character calls herself after a bad fact(maybe hes husband's death, i can't remember it now). Before her name was Noemi (my sweetness)

Answer 8

I think it's the same as Mary in Western European countries, like Ireland.

Answer 9

it comes from Mary and it means Bitter Sea

Answer 10

in shona (zimbabwe) "mara" means scratch