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Lara
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lara Lára lära låra
English
Etymology
Anglicized from en ru Ла́ра, a en ru - pet form of Larissa, known from the novel (1957) and film (1965) Dr Zhivago.
Pronunciation
lä′rə
en /ˈlɑː.ɹə/ RP
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Lara.wav Southern England
en ɑːɹə 2
en La ra
Proper noun
en suburb of city/Geelong s/Victoria c/Australia
en female Russian,Ukrainian.
en 2014 w:Yiyun Li Kinder Than Solitude: A Novel Random House 9780812996029 Long after the divorce, Moran maintained the habit of giving her name as Lara to the Starbucks baristas. She had once met another Lara at Logan airport, both of them waiting for their coffees, both stepping forward when summoned. The other Lara said her parents had gone through a period of thinking that everything Russian was holy,and had named her Larissa―Lara―after the heroine of a Russian novel. Later, her parents left their hippie-hood behind and gave her younger sisters more normal names: Jennifer, Molly, Aimee.
en Is 'Trump-effect' to blame for US students fleeing to Canada? w:BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38511372 2017-01-06 "If we live in a country where so many people could elect Donald Trump, then that's not a country I want to live in," 17-year-old Lara Godoff told the Associated Press. https://web.archive.org/web/20250723080925/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38511372 23 July 2025 28 February 2026
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Translations
female given name
Belarusian: be Лара f
French: fr Lara f
German: de Lara f
Italian: it Lara f
Portuguese: pt Lara f
Russian: ru Ла́ра f
Ukrainian: uk Лара f
See also
en Laura
en Larissa
Anagrams
en aalr Alar Aral Arla alar
French
Etymology
Recently borrowed from fr ru -.
Pronunciation
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-Lara.wav <<France>> (<<Vosges>>)
Proper noun
f
fr female
Anagrams
fr râla
German
Etymology
Recently borrowed from de ru Ла́ра.
Pronunciation
de /ˈlaːʁa/
de De-Lara.ogg
de De-Lara2.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
de La ra
Proper noun
de proper noun f genitive Laras or Lara
de female
Icelandic
Pronunciation
is aːra 2
Proper noun
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is female
Declension
f
Italian
Etymology
Recently borrowed from it ru -.
Pronunciation
Làra
Proper noun
f
it female
Portuguese
Pronunciation
pt aɾɐ 2
pt La ra
Proper noun
f +
pt female Lara
pt female Larissa
pt Lari
Spanish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
mfbysense
es
Proper noun
es state c/Venezuela
Derived terms
es larense