Ara

Ara or ara may refer to:

• Ara (genus), a genus of macaw (parrot)
• the Latin for altar
  • Ara (constellation), "The Altar" constellation, as standardized by the International Astronomical Union
  • Ara Pacis, the Augustan Altar of Peace
  • Great Altar of Hercules, also known as the Ara Maxima
• Ara (drink), traditional Bhutanese wine
• Project Ara, a modular phone initiative by Google

Given name

• an Armenian given name
  • Ara the Beautiful, Armenian legendary figure
  • Ara Dinkjian, Armenian oud player and composer
  • Ara Parseghian, former collegiate association football coach
• a Korean given name
  • Go Ara, South Korean actress and model
  • Yoo Ara, South Korean singer and dancer; leader of the girl group Hello Venus
• Ara Bartlett, American lawyer and judge
• Ara, a diminutive of the Russian feminine given name Avrora (a form of Aurora)

Surname

• Guido Ara, an Italian association football player
• Seiji Ara (荒; born 1974), a Japanese race car driver

Toponymy

• 'Ara, an Israeli-Arab village
• Ara (lake), Norway
• Ara, Armenia
• Ara, Bihar, India
• Arrah, Bihar, India
• Ara, Iran
• Ara Gaya is a City-state kingdom in the part of Gaya confederacy, in modern day Haman County of Korea
• River Ara, Ireland

Arts, media, and entertainment

• Ara (film) (Turkish ara "distance"), film by Ümit Ünal
• Ara (newspaper) (Catalan ara "now"), a Catalan language daily newspaper from Barcelona
• Ara Tribe, a fictional Protoss tribe in the StarCraft Universe

Abbreviations

• Arabic language, from its ISO 639-2 language code
• L-arabinose operon (ara operon)

See also

• ARA (disambiguation) (acronym)
• Arra (disambiguation)