{{wiktionary|Mara|mara}} '''Mara''' or '''MARA''' may refer to: {{TOC right}} ==Arts and entertainment== ===Fictional characters=== {{see also|Mara (name)#Fictional characters{{!}}Mara (name) § Fictional characters}} *Mara (''Doctor Who''), an evil being in two ''Doctor Who'' serials *Mara (She-Ra), fictional characters from the ''She-Ra and the Princesses of Power'' and ''The New Adventures of He-Man'' animated series * Mara Davis/Mara David/Mara del Valle, a character from Philippine drama series ''Mara Clara (1992 TV series)'' and ''Mara Clara (2010 TV series)'' *Mara Jade, in the Star Wars Expanded Universe *Mara Sewell, a fictional character in ''The Shield'' *Mara Wade, title character of ''Mara of the Wilderness'' *Mara Forest, main player character of ''Crow Country''
===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 **Mara people *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, 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 the 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 Group, a multinational and multisectoral corporation with roots in East Africa *Marathon Digital, an American digital asset technology firm which trades on the Nasdaq as MARA *Majlis Amanah Rakyat (People's Trust Council), MARA, a Malaysian government agency *Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, a Chinese central government ministry *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 * Mara (singer), Russian rock singer *Mara, ''nom de guerre'' of Estreya Haim Ovadya, Yugoslavian partisan
==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 subfamily 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)
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