Amara
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Amara f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Carabidae – sun beetles.
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- Amara (beetle) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Amara on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Amara (genus) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
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Amara
- A female given name originating as a coinage, of modern usage taken from fantasy fiction; explained, for example, as a Sanskrit word for "eternal".
- 2002, Richard Laymon, To Wake the Dead, Leisure Books, published 2004, →ISBN, page 11:
- "Amara? That's a beautiful name." He smiled, teasing. "And she was a wife of Pharaoh Mentuhotep the First. - - - Amara, Amara, Amara. A guy can fall in love with a name like that.
- A port on the River Tigris in Iraq.
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Amara f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Amara
- Amara (a city in Iraq)
Romanian edit
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From amar (“bitter”).
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Amara f
- A village in Balta Albă, Buzău, Romania
- A city in Ialomița, Romania