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
- 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
- Majlis Amanah Rakyat (People's Trust Council), MARA, a Malaysian government agency
- 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 species 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
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