Mara

Mara may refer to:

People

• Mara (name), list of people with this name
• Mara people, in northeastern India and western Myanmar
• Mara language, a language spoken by Mara people
• Mara (Tagin), a tribe in Arunachal Pradesh
• Maravar, a dominant caste in Tamil Nadu state in India

Places

• Mara, Aragon, a municipality in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain
• Mara, Iran, a village in Iran
• Mara, Isfahan, a village in Iran
• Mara, Kerman, a village in Iran
• Mara, a village in Desești Commune, Maramureş County, Romania
• Mara, Sardinia, a commune on the Italian island of Sardinia
• Mara, Spain, a municipality
• Mara, a small town in the Bushveld of South Africa
• Mara (torrent), a stream of Switzerland and Italy
• Mara District, Cotabambas, Peru
• Mara Mountain, a mountain in Greenland, and the closest mountain to the North Pole
• Mara Provincial Park, a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada
• Mara Provincial Park (Ontario), a provincial park located near Orillia, Ontario, Canada
• Mara Region, an administrative division in Tanzania
• Mara River, a river of Kenya and Tanzania
• Mara River (Iza), a river in Romania
• Mara River (Nunavut), a river in Nunavut, Canada
• Masai Mara, a reserve in Kenya near the Mara River
• Mara-do, an island of South Korea

Culture

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

Fiction

• Mara, an 1894 novel by Ioan Slavici
• Mara, a fictional planet of Procyon in the Childe Cycle of Gordon R. Dickson
• The Mara, an evil being in two Doctor Who serials
• Mara Jade, a character in the Star Wars Expanded Universe
• Mara of the Wilderness, a 1965 adventure film
• Mara, character in the Feist and Wurts "Empire Trilogy"

Organisations

• Majlis Amanah Rakyat (People's Trust Council), Malaysian government-agency
• Migration Agents Registration Authority Australian regulator of migration agents
• Dance Club Mara, a formation dance team, Minsk, Belarus
• Mara (supermarket), a Romanian supermarket chain
• Mara (gang), a form of gang in America
  • Mara Salvatrucha, in Central and North America

Other

• Mara (album), a 1995 album by Scottish band Runrig
• Mara (mammal), a species of the cavy family
• Mara the Lioness, in the movie Born Free
• MaraDNS, DNS software

Military and transport

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

See also

• Mara River (disambiguation)
• Maraa
• Maras (disambiguation)