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Tara

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tara"

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Irish Teamhrach, genitive of Teamhair, from Old Irish Temair (literally “high place”). The female given name is derived from the name of the plantation in Gone with the Wind, named for the place in Ireland.

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Tara

  1. An Irish place name, associated with the Hill of Tara, seat of ancient Irish kings.
    • 1808, Thomas Moore, The Harp of Tara:
      No more to chiefs and ladies bright
      The harp of Tara swells
    1. A small settlement in County Meath, Ireland, near the Hill of Tara (Irish grid ref N 9458)
  2. A female given name transferred from the place name, of 20th century and later usage.
    • 2025 March 30, Nayeli Jaramillo-Plata, “‘A huge blow’: USDA cuts threaten to throw Wisconsin’s local food supply into disarray”, in CNN‎[2]:
      Many had already taken out loans and purchased equipment in preparation for the program’s continuation, said Tara Roberts-Turner, general manager of the Wisconsin Food Hub Cooperative (WFHC), a farmer-led distribution network serving more than 400 farmers and the state’s largest food hub.
  3. A male given name.
    • 1952, Janice Holt Giles, Tara's Healing:
      the story of Tara Cochrane, a war veteran, a physician, and a burned-out man who describes himself in terms of a bad cigarette
  4. Some other places named Tara, all likely after the Irish hill:
    1. A community in Arran-Elderslie municipality, Bruce County, Ontario, Canada.
    2. An unincorporated community in Manatee County, Florida, United States.
    3. A township in Swift County, Minnesota, United States.
    4. A township in Traverse County, Minnesota.
    5. A locality in the Temora council area, central New South Wales, Australia.
    6. A town in the Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.
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Etymology 2

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18th century Eastern Tibetan thangka, with the Green Tara (Samaya Tara Yogini) in the center and the Blue, Red, White and Yellow taras in the corners, Rubin Museum of Art

Borrowed from Sanskrit तारा (tārā, “star”). Doublet of Akhtar and sitara.

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Tara

  1. (Hinduism) One of the Mahavidyas.
  2. (Hinduism) The wife of Brihaspati, guru and priest of the Devas.
  3. (Buddhism) A female Buddha typically associated with Buddhist tantra practice as preserved in Tibetan Buddhism. She is the "mother of liberation", and represents the virtues of success in work and achievements.
  4. A female given name from Sanskrit.
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Etymology 3

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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Tara (plural Taras)

  1. A surname.
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  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Tara is the 40082nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 547 individuals. Tara is most common among White (58.5%), Asian/Pacific Islander (19.38%) and Hispanic/Latino (14.44%) individuals.

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Etymology 4

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Tara

  1. A barangay of Bolinao, Pangasinan, Philippines.
  2. A barangay of Coron, Palawan, Philippines.
  3. A barangay of Sipocot, Camarines Sur, Philippines.
  4. A barangay of Mabinay, Negros Oriental, Philippines.

Etymology 5

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From Persian تارا (târâ).

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Tara

  1. A transliteration of the Persian female given name تارا (târâ).

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German

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian tara, from Arabic طَرْح (ṭarḥ, “subtraction”).

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Noun

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Tara f (genitive Tara, plural Taren)

  1. (business) tare (the empty weight of a container)
    Synonyms: Taragewicht, Verpackungsgewicht
    Coordinate terms: Brutto, Netto

Declension

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Declension of Tara [feminine]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Tara die Taren
genitive einer der Tara der Taren
dative einer der Tara den Taren
accusative eine die Tara die Taren

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Icelandic

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Tara f (proper noun, genitive singular Töru)

  1. a female given name

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Declension of Tara (sg-only feminine)
indefinite singular
nominative Tara
accusative Töru
dative Töru
genitive Töru

Japanese

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Tara

  1. Rōmaji transcription of たら

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology 1

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From Illyrian *tar-, *ter-, from Proto-Indo-European *terh₂- (“to cross, to overcome”), compare Sanskrit तॄ (tṝ, “to pass”) or Old Irish tar (“over, across”).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /târa/
  • Hyphenation: Ta‧ra

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Tȁra f (Cyrillic spelling Та̏ра)

  1. a river in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro
  2. a mountain in Serbia

Declension

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Declension of Tara
singular
nominative Tara
genitive Tare
dative Tari
accusative Taru
vocative Taro
locative Tari
instrumental Tarom

Etymology 2

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See English Tara.

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Tȁra f (Cyrillic spelling Та̏ра)

  1. a female given name
    Kći Novaka Đokovića zove se Tara. ― The daughter of Novak Đoković is called Tara.

Declension

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Declension of Tara
singular
nominative Tara
genitive Tare
dative Tari
accusative Taru
vocative Tara
locative Tari
instrumental Tarom

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  1. ^ Vujičić, Dragomir (1982), “Hidronimi (imena voda) u lijevom slivu Drine”, in Djela‎[1], volume 33, Sarajevo: Akademija nauka i umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine

Further reading

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  • “Tara”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2026
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