Ara

For the acronym, see ARA.

Ara may refer to:

Biology

• Ara (bird), a genus of parrots
• Ara (fish) (Niphon spinosus), a species of fish
• L-arabinose operon, also known as ara

Places

• Ara (mountain), a mountain in Armenia
• Ara, Armenia, a village in Armenia
• Ara, Bihar, a city in India
• Ara, Ramgarh, a town in Jharkhand, India
• Ara, Ranchi, a town in Jharkhand, India
• Ara, Iran, a village in Iran
• 'Ara, a village in Israel
• Ara (lake), a lake in Norway
• Arakawa River (disambiguation), also known as Ara, several rivers in Japan
• River Ara, Ireland

People

Given name

• Ara the Beautiful, a legendary Armenian hero
• Ara Ball, Canadian film director
• Ara Bartlett (fl. 1825–1880), American lawyer and judge
• Ara Dinkjian (born 1958), Armenian oud player and composer
• Go Ara (born 1990), South Korean actress and model
• Ara Parseghian (1923–2017), American football player and coach
• Yoo Ara (born 1992), South Korean singer and dancer; leader of the girl group Hello Venus
• Ara Guler (1928-2018), Armenian-Turkish photojournalist
• Ara, a diminutive of the Russian feminine given name Avrora (a form of Aurora)
• Ara Spence (1793–1866), Justice of the Maryland Court of Appeals

Surname

• Arilena Ara (born 1998), Albanian singer also known mononymously as Arilena
• Guido Ara (1888–1975), Italian association football player
• Rachel Ara (born 1965), British conceptual and data artist
• Seiji Ara (born 1974), Japanese race car driver
• Zinat Ara (born 1953), Bangladeshi justice

Media

• Ara (film), a 2008 Turkish drama directed by Ümit Ünal
• Ara (newspaper), a Catalan-language daily newspaper from Barcelona
• "Ara", a song by Brymo from The Son of a Kapenta
• Ara, Zeynep Bastık's Turkish cover of "Paro" by Nej'
• Ara: History Untold, turn-based grand strategy video game

Other uses

• Ara (constellation)
• Ara (goddess), a Mesopotamian goddess
• A'ra, a pre-Islamic Arabian god
• Ara (drink), traditional Bhutanese wine
• ISO 639-2 and -3 language codes for Arabic
• Ara Institute of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
• Project Ara, a modular phone initiative by Google
• Hape people, a Native American group also called the Ara

See also

• ARA (disambiguation) (acronym)
• Ara Ara, an ethnic group of Australia
• Ara Gaya, a city-state kingdom in the Gaya confederacy, in modern-day Haman County, South Korea
• Arra (disambiguation)
• Arrah (disambiguation)
• McAra (disambiguation)