Tara

Tara may refer to:

Religions and deities

• Tara (Buddhism), a tantric meditation deity in Tibetan Buddhism

• In Hinduism:
  • Tara (Devi), a Tantric goddess (Mahavidya)
  • Another name for Taraka, the second wife of Brihaspati
  • Tara (Ramayana), the wife of the monkey king Vali, who married Vali's brother and successor, Sugriva, after Vali's death

• Tara, the mother goddess in the Druidic religion
• Tara, a sea goddess in Polynesian mythology
• Taara or Tharapita, a god in Estonian mythology

People and characters

• Tara (name), a list of people and characters with the name
• Tara (cat), a family cat who saved a four-year-old boy from a dog attack
• Tara (wrestler), ringname of professional wrestler Lisa Marie Varon

Titles

• Baron Brabazon of Tara, UK title
• Baron Tara, Irish title
• Kingship of Tara, a title of authority in ancient Ireland
• Viscount Tara, Irish title

Places

Buildings

• Tara, Cairo, villa in Gezira Island, Cairo, made famous by its inhabitants during World War II
• Tara, Chertsey, Surrey, United Kingdom, previously the home of drummer Keith Moon
• Tara Theatre, an art house movie theater in Atlanta named after the plantation in Gone With the Wind

Natural features

• 5863 Tara, an asteroid
• Batu Tara, an island in the Flores Sea in Indonesia
• Hill of Tara, County Meath, Ireland, ritual site of ancient high kings of Ireland
• Salar de Tara, salt pan in Chile
• Tara Hill, County Wexford, Ireland
• Tara Island, Sulu Archipelago, Philippines
• Tara Mountain and Tara National Park in Serbia
• Tara River Canyon in Montenegro
• Tara, Saga, town, mountain and mountain range in Saga Prefecture, Japan

Rivers

• Tara (Drina), in Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Tara (Greece), in Arcadia, Greece
• Tara (Italy), a small river near Taranto
• Tara River (Russia), in Siberia, Russia

Populated places

• Qila Tara Singh, a town and union council of Depalpur Tehsil in the Okara District of Punjab Province, Pakistan
• Tara, Afghanistan, in Maidan Wardak Province, Afghanistan
• Tara, County Offaly, a townland in the civil parish of Durrow, barony of Ballycowan, Republic of Ireland
• Tara, Ethiopia, a village in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia
• Tara, Iran, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran
• Tara Garh, a village in the Pattoki tehsil of Kasur District in the West Punjab, Pakistan
• Tara Hills, California, United States
• Tara, County Down, a townland in County Down, Northern Ireland
• Tara, Ireland, a village in Ireland
• Tara Khēl, a village in Deh Sabz District, Kabul Province, Afghanistan
• Țara Moților, an ethnogeographical region of Romania
• Tara Nagar, a village in Gorkha District in the Gandaki Zone of northern-central Nepal
• Tara, Nepal, a village in Baglung District in the Dhawalagiri Zone of central Nepal
• Tara, Ontario, village in Canada
• Tara, Queensland, town in Australia
• Tara Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of oblast significance of Tara in Omsk Oblast, Russia is incorporated as
• Tara, Russia, several inhabited localities in Russia
• Tara, Saga, town, mountain, and mountain range in Saga Prefecture, Japan
• Tara Township, Minnesota (disambiguation), several places in the United States
• Tara, Zambia, a village in the Southern Province of Zambia
• Tara, Florida, an unincorporated area in Manatee County, Florida

Other

• Đurđevića Tara Bridge, bridge over the Tara River in northern Montenegro
• Shire of Tara, Queensland, Australia
• Tara Anglican School for Girls, North Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
• Țara Călatei, a region in western Romania
• Tara County, New South Wales, Australia
• Tara Subcounty, a region in Maracha District, Uganda
• Tara Field, airport in Henry County, Georgia, USA
• Tara High School, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
• Tara Mine, a zinc and lead mine near Navan, County Meath, Ireland
• Tara River Canyon, canyon in Montenegro
• Tara Station in Saga Prefecture, Japan
• Tara Street, a major traffic route in Dublin, Ireland
• Tara Street railway station in Dublin, Ireland

Companies and organizations

• Kiah & Tara Jean, a Canadian radio show in Vancouver, British Columbia
• Țara, a newspaper from the Republic of Moldova
• Tara Air, Nepalese airline
• Tara expedition, Arctic voyage 2006-08
• Tara Foundation, charity for transgender people
• Tara Hurdle, a horse race in Ireland
• Tara Institute, a Tibetan Buddhist center located in the suburb of East Brighton in Melbourne
• Tara International, Indian marketer for Tara Green Auto
• Tara Labs, manufacturer of high-end audio products
• Tara Music, formerly known as Tara Records, and Irish record company.
• Tara Newz, Bengali news channel
• Tara (Northern Ireland), loyalist group
• Tara Television (or Tara TV), an Irish cable and satellite channel

Works of fiction

Novels

• Tara Road, a 1998 novel by Irish writer Maeve Binchy

Film and television

• Ballad of Tara, "Cherike ye Tara", an Iranian film directed by Bahram Bayzai
• Nepali Tara, a Nepali television series
• Tara (1992 film), an Indian film directed by Bijaya Jena
• Tara (2001 film), an American film, also known as Hood Rat, directed by Leslie Small
• Tara (2013 film), an Indian film directed by Kumar Raj
• Tara (TV series), soap opera that aired on Zee TV
• TARA, acronym for The Amazing Race Asia, a reality game show on the AXN network
• Tara Road (film), a 2005 film based on the novel
• Tara Sasankam, a popular Indian play and 1941 and 1969 films
• United States of Tara, a 2009 US comedy-drama TV series

Settings

• Tara (plantation), fictional rural home of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind
• Tara, a planet setting of the Doctor Who serial The Androids of Tara
• Tara (Artemis Fowl), a location in the Artemis Fowl series, also a real location in Ireland

Other

• Queen Tara, play by Darrell Figgis. Opened at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, February 25, 1913. Produced by Henry Herbert.

Science

• Tara (genus), a genus of jumping spiders
• Tara tree in Peru
• Tara (shrub), a Malagasy name for Lemuropisum edule
• TARA, the acronym for the Timed Antagonistic Response Alethiometer, a type of lie detection technique
• Tara, a theoretical founding ancestor of Haplogroup T
• A Vitis rotundifolia grape variety

Music

• T-ara, an active South Korean girl music group
• Tara (Absu album)
• Tara (Yano album)
• "Tara" (song), a song on Moya Brennan's 2003 album Two Horizons
• Tara Music, a label featuring traditional Irish music
• Tara Perdida, a Portuguese punk rock band
• Tara McDonald, an active English/Irish singer songwriter signed to Mercury/Universal records commonly called "The Queen Of Dance" after big hits with David Guetta, Armand van Helden & Axwell.

Other

• Battle of Tara (disambiguation), a number of battles in Ireland
• Da' Tara, American thoroughbred racehorse
• Hurricane Tara (disambiguation), name of three tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific Ocean
• Kayf Tara, United Kingdom Thoroughbred racehorse
• tārā, Tahitian slang for 5 CFP francs
• Tara Brooch, an artifact from Ireland
• Tara, a submarine of the Yugoslav Navy
• Tara (slang), Liverpudlian, meaning 'Goodbye'

See also

• Taras (disambiguation)
• Tare weight