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Dara are several given names used for both men and women in different languages.

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Dara are several different homonymous names with different etymological origins.

  • In Hebrew, Dara means "compassion" or "pearl of wisdom".[citation needed]
  • In Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Serbia, Dara means "gift", or "to give a gift", its meaning directly derives from dar "gift".
  • In Ibibio, Dara is a derivative of "joy", and it means "rejoice".
  • In Indonesian, Dara is a feminine given name meaning "girl", "young woman", or "virgin".
  • Oluwadara is a Yoruba name given to a male or female child meaning [God's Good].'Oluwa' means *GOD* and 'Dara' means *Is Good*.
  • Dara is an anglicisation of the Irish language given name Dáire, which is likely derived from doire "oak wood".[citation needed] Despite traditionally being masculine, it is sometimes used as a unisex name. Alternative spellings include Daire or Darragh. It also occurs as a surname, possibly a version of the surname Mac Dubhdara.
  • In Javanese, Dara means "dove" or "pigeon".
  • Because of the tone mark in Yoruba, Dara is also a short form of Oluwashindara, which means "wonder (God still does wonder)".
  • In Gokana, "Dara" mean to "carry".
  • In Kazakh, Dara is a feminine given name meaning "special, one of a kind".
  • In Khmer, Thai, and Lao, Dara is a unisex name meaning "star".
  • In Persian, and Parsi communities, Dara (Persian: دارا) is a variant of the masculine given name Darius.[1][2] In contemporary Persian, it means "rich", "well-off" and "well-to-do".
  • In Punjabi, Dara means "leader".
  • In Swahili, Dara means "the beautiful one".
  • The word "Odara" derives from the Brazilian indigenous Ioruba word dara, meaning "gorgeous."
  • In Urdu, Dara is a masculine given name meaning "possessor" or "sovereign" and "halo (of the moon)".[3] It can also mean "sovereign" or "lord", a meaning shared with the Sikh language.[4] In Urdu, Dara is a short form of Darius.
  • In African-American culture, the name Dara is of Bermudian origin, also meaning "beautiful".[5]
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