Mara
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The word Mara can mean:
- a species of the cavy family, see Mara (mammal)
- an administrative region of Tanzania, see Mara, Tanzania
- an Italian commune in the province of Sassari in the island of Sardinia, see Mara, Italy
- a small town in South Africa, see Mara, South Africa
- Mara River, a river of Kenya and Tanzania, which gave its name to the Masai Mara reserve
- Mara River, a river in Romania
- a demon of the Buddhist cosmology, see Mara (demon)
- a goddess in Latvian mythology, see Mara (goddess)
- a creature in Germanic, particulary Scandinavian folklore, thought to cause nightmares, see Mara (folklore)
- a Sanskrit and Pali word meaning death-bringing or the destroying
- in the Bible, Naomi called herself Mara after she suffered the deaths of her husband and her two sons
- the nickname of career diplomat and former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari
- the name of the main villain in the Ah! My Goddess manga series. She is a female human-looking demon.
- the name of an evil being in two Doctor Who serials, Kinda and Snakedance.
- a municipality (pop. 199) in the Spanish province of Zaragoza or Saragossa, in the autonomous community of Aragon.
- Mara, the name of a fictional character in the Star Wars Expanded Universe.
- Mara, the name of a God in David Eddings' The Belgariad and The Malloreon.
- the lead character in the Raymond E. Feist/Janny Wurts “Empire” Trilogy (Daughter of the Empire, Servant of the Empire, Mistress of the Empire).
- one of the two homeworld of the Exotics in the Childe Cycle, written by Gordon R. Dickson.