Mara

Mara or MARA may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

• Mara (Doctor Who), an evil being in two Doctor Who serials
• Mara, a fictional planet of Procyon in the Childe Cycle of Gordon R. Dickson
• Mara (She-Ra), fictional characters from the She-Ra and the Princesses of Power and The New Adventures of He-Man animated series
• Mara, leader of the Acoma Clan and heroine of the "Empire Trilogy" by Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts
• Mara Jade, in the Star Wars Expanded Universe
• Mara Sewell, a fictional character in The Shield, portrayed by Michele Hicks
• Mara Sov, a fictional character in the video game Destiny
• Mara Wade, title character of Mara of the Wilderness, a 1965 adventure film
• Mara Dyer, title character in the Mara Dyer trilogy by Michelle Hodkin

Other uses in arts and entertainment

• Mara the Lioness, an animal actor
• Mara (album), a 1995 album by Scottish band Runrig
• Mara (film), a 2018 American supernatural horror film starring Olga Kurylenko
• Maara, a 2021 Indian film by Dhilip Kumar
• Mara, an 1894 novel by Ioan Slavici
• Dance Club Mara, a formation dance team, Minsk, Belarus

Cultural and language groupings

• Mara (Tagin), a tribe in Arunachal Pradesh
• Mara language, a language spoken by the Mara people of India and Burma
  • Mara people
• Maric languages, a group of Aboriginal Australian languages also known as Mara or Maran
• Marra language, an Aboriginal Australian language (also known as Mara)
  • Marra people, an Aboriginal Australian people

Folklore, mythology, and religion

• Mara (demon), in Buddhism
• Mara (folklore), a wraith-like creature in Germanic and Scandinavian folklore
• Mara (Hindu goddess) of death
• Mara, anagram of Rama, for Valmiki to chant in Hindu mythology
• Marzanna or Mara, Slavic goddess
• Māra, Latvian goddess

Military and transport

• MARA (anti-tank weapon), Argentine antitank missile
• Mirage 5P Mara, upgraded Dassault Mirage 5 aircraft for Argentine Air Force
• Shell Mara, a Lake tanker operated in Lake Maracaibo by Shell Oil
• SS Mara, a Lake tanker operated in Lake Maracaibo by Lago Oil and Transport Company

Organisations

• Mara (gang), a form of gang in the United States, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala
• Mara (supermarket), a Romanian supermarket chain
• Mara Group, a multinational and multisectoral corporation with roots in East Africa
• Marathon Digital, an American digital asset technology firm which trades on the Nasdaq as MARA
• Majlis Amanah Rakyat (People's Trust Council), MARA, a Malaysian government agency
• Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, a Chinese central government ministry
• Migration Agents Registration Authority, the Australian regulator of migration agents
• Universiti Teknologi MARA, a public university in Malaysia

People with the name

• Mara (name), list of people with this name
• Māra (given name), a Latvian given name
• Mára, the stage name for American musician Faith Coloccia during solo performances
• Mahinda Rajapaksa, 6th president of Sri Lanka
• Mara (singer), Russian rock singer

Places

Including geographical features

• Mara (torrent), a stream of Switzerland and Italy
• Mara, Aragon, a municipality in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain
• Mara, Iran, a village in Tehran province
• Mara, Isfahan, a village in Iran
• Mara, Kerman, a village in Iran
• Mara, Sardinia, a commune on the Italian island of Sardinia
• Mara, a small town in the Bushveld of South Africa
• Mara, a village in Desești Commune, Maramureș County, Romania
• Mara, a village in Tararua District, part of Wellington Region, New Zealand
• Mara District, a district in the province of Cotabambas, Apurimac, Peru
• Mara (Iza), a river in northern Romania
• Mara Lake, a lake in British Columbia, Canada
• Mara Mountain, a mountain in Greenland, and the closest mountain to the North Pole
• Mara Provincial Park (Ontario), a provincial park located near Orillia, Ontario, Canada
• Mara Provincial Park, a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada
• Mara Region, an administrative division in Tanzania
• Mara River (Nunavut), a river in Canada
• Mara River, a river of Kenya and Tanzania
• Măra River, a river in Romania
• Marado or Mara Island, South Korea
• Masai Mara, known locally as "The Mara", a reserve in Kenya near the Mara River

Other uses

• Mara (mammal), a subfamily of the cavy family
• MaraDNS, DNS software
• Mandibular Anterior Repositioning Appliance, an orthodontic functional appliance

See also

• Mahra (disambiguation)
• Marah (disambiguation)
• Maras (disambiguation)
• Marra (disambiguation)
• Maran (disambiguation)
• Mara language