Lara
English edit
Etymology edit
Anglicized from Ла́ра (Lára), a Russian pet form of Larissa, known from the novel (1957) and film (1965) Dr Zhivago.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈlɑːɹə/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːɹə
- Homophone: Laura (with cot-caught and father-bother mergers)
Proper noun edit
Lara
- A female given name from Russian.
- 2014, Yiyun Li, Kinder Than Solitude: A Novel, Random House, →ISBN:
- 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.
- A surname.
Translations edit
female given name
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French edit
Etymology edit
Recently borrowed from Russian.
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Lara f
- a female given name
Anagrams edit
German edit
Etymology edit
Recently borrowed from Russian Ла́ра (Lára).
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Lara f (genitive Laras or Lara)
- a female given name
Icelandic edit
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Lara f
- a female given name
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Italian edit
Etymology edit
Recently borrowed from Russian.
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Lara f
- a female given name
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -aɾɐ
- Hyphenation: La‧ra
Proper noun edit
Lara f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Lara
- a diminutive of the female given name Larissa
- Synonym: Lari
Spanish edit
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Lara m or f by sense
- a surname
Proper noun edit
Lara ?
- A state of Venezuela