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Mara (name)
''Mara'' can be either a surname or a (usually female) first name. As a surname, it may be: *Irish: a shortened form of ''O’Mara''; * Hungarian: from a pet form of the personal names ''Mária'', ''Márkus'' (Hungarian form of ''Marcus'' or ''Mark'') or ''Márton'' (Hungarian form of ''Martin''), or from a short form of the old ecclesiastical name Marcel; *Czech (''Mára''): from a pet form of the personal name ''Marek'' or ''Martin''. Mara as a female first name is pronounced MAHR-ah most of the time, but can be pronounced as rhyming with Sarah in Jewish-American and Southern United States culture. It is of Hebrew origin, and the meaning of Mara is "bitter", which carries the implication "strength". The biblical Naomi, mother-in-law of Ruth, claimed the name Mara (מרא) as an expression of grief after the deaths of her husband and sons. It also means "Lady" in Aramaic, because Mar means "Lord", and is a title of bishops in the Syriac Christian church. It is also the name of a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish People
The Irish ( ga, Muintir na hÉireann or ''Na hÉireannaigh'') are an ethnic group and nation native to the island of Ireland, who share a common history and culture. There have been humans in Ireland for about 33,000 years, and it has been continually inhabited for more than 10,000 years (see Prehistoric Ireland). For most of Ireland's recorded history, the Irish have been primarily a Gaelic people (see Gaelic Ireland). From the 9th century, small numbers of Vikings settled in Ireland, becoming the Norse-Gaels. Anglo-Normans also conquered parts of Ireland in the 12th century, while England's 16th/17th century conquest and colonisation of Ireland brought many English and Lowland Scots to parts of the island, especially the north. Today, Ireland is made up of the Republic of Ireland (officially called Ireland) and Northern Ireland (a part of the United Kingdom). The people of Northern Ireland hold various national identities including British, Irish, Northern Irish or som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamara (given Name)
Tamara is a female given name most commonly derived from the Biblical name " Tamar" and in the Arabic from the singular form "Tamra" (Arabic: تَمْرَة ''tamrah'') and the plural form "Tamar" (Arabic: تَمْر ''tamr''), meaning in both Hebrew and Arabic the generic name of the fruit "date", "date palm" or "palm tree". In central and eastern European countries like Armenia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Hungary, North Macedonia, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia and Ukraine it has been a common name for centuries. In Australia it was very popular from the 1960s to 1990s. One of the most popular names in Russia. In the United States, the name was fairly common from the late 1950s to mid 1990s, bolstered by the popularity of the film ''Tammy and the Bachelor'' and its theme song (Tammy is commonly a nickname for Tamara). In the US the most girls named Tamara were born in 1970 and the number of Tamaras born per year was greater than 1,000 as late as 1996. The name is now fairl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alehana Mara
Alehana Mara (born 6 November 1989) is a Vanuatu international rugby league footballer who plays for the Wynnum Manly Seagulls in the Queensland Cup. Mara previously played for the New Zealand Warriors in the National Rugby League. Early life Born in Wellington, New Zealand, Mara is of Ni-Vanuatu descent through his father, and Tokelauan descent through his mother. He attended St Patrick's College and represented the school in rugby union. Mara played his junior rugby league for the St George club in the Wellington Rugby League competition. He represented the Junior Kiwis in 2006 and the NZ under-18 team in 2007 before going onto play for the Wellington Orcas in the Bartercard Cup. Playing career Mara joined the New Zealand Warriors in 2008 for the inaugural season of the Under 20's National Youth Competition. He played 39 games for the Juniors Warriors over two seasons, scoring eleven tries and finishing the 2009 season as the squads' captain. When he moved into the Warrior ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adele Mara
Adele Mara (born Adelaida Delgado; April 28, 1923 – May 7, 2010) was an American actress, singer, and dancer, who appeared in films during the 1940s and 1950s and on television in the 1950s and 1960s. Early years Mara was born in Highland Park, Michigan, to Spanish parents. She had a brother, Luis, who became an actor. Dancing Mara danced as part of bandleader Xavier Cugat's show as well as on two episodes of ''Maverick'' entitled " Seed of Deception" and "The Spanish Dancer". Film Under the professional name of Adele St. Mara, she won a contract with Columbia Pictures and gained experience in the studio's "B" features and comedy shorts. This was soon shortened to Adele Mara. One of Mara's early roles was as a receptionist in the Three Stooges film '' I Can Hardly Wait''. Mara and Leslie Brooks played the sisters of Rita Hayworth's character in the Fred Astaire film ''You Were Never Lovelier''. In ''Alias Boston Blackie'' (1942), she plays the leading female role, as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perception Of English /r/ And /l/ By Japanese Speakers
Japanese has one liquid phoneme , realized usually as an apico-alveolar tap and sometimes as an alveolar lateral approximant . English has two: rhotic and lateral , with varying phonetic realizations centered on the postalveolar approximant and on the alveolar lateral approximant , respectively. Japanese speakers who learn English as a second language later than childhood often have difficulty in hearing and producing the and of English accurately. Phonetic differences The Japanese liquid is most often realized as an alveolar tap , though there is some variation depending on phonetic context. of American English (the dialect Japanese speakers are typically exposed to) is most commonly a postalveolar central approximant with simultaneous secondary pharyngeal constriction or less commonly a retroflex approximant . involves contact with the alveolar ridge as well as some raising of the tongue dorsum (velarization), especially when syllable-final. Perception Evidence fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indo-Aryan Languages
The Indo-Aryan languages (or sometimes Indic languages) are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family. As of the early 21st century, they have more than 800 million speakers, primarily concentrated in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Maldives. Moreover, apart from the Indian subcontinent, large immigrant and expatriate Indo-Aryan–speaking communities live in Northwestern Europe, Western Asia, North America, the Caribbean, Southeast Africa, Polynesia and Australia, along with several million speakers of Romani languages primarily concentrated in Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. There are over 200 known Indo-Aryan languages. Modern Indo-Aryan languages descend from Old Indo-Aryan languages such as early Vedic Sanskrit, through Middle Indo-Aryan languages (or Prakrits). The largest such languages in terms of First language, first-speakers are Hindustani language, Hindi–Urdu (),Standard Hindi firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sino-Tibetan Languages
Sino-Tibetan, also cited as Trans-Himalayan in a few sources, is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers. The vast majority of these are the 1.3 billion native speakers of Chinese languages. Other Sino-Tibetan languages with large numbers of speakers include Burmese (33 million) and the Tibetic languages (6 million). Other languages of the family are spoken in the Himalayas, the Southeast Asian Massif, and the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau. Most of these have small speech communities in remote mountain areas, and as such are poorly documented. Several low-level subgroups have been securely reconstructed, but reconstruction of a proto-language for the family as a whole is still at an early stage, so the higher-level structure of Sino-Tibetan remains unclear. Although the family is traditionally presented as divided into Sinitic (i.e. Chinese) and Tibeto-Burman branches, a common origin of the non-Sinitic languages has n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mallika
Mallika is a Hindu/Sanskrit Indian feminine given name, which means "jasmine".''Baby Names''"Given Name Mallika" Retrieved on 27 January 2016. Notable people with the name include: *Mallika (actress), Indian actress * Mallika Chabba (born 1985), Indian painter * Mallika Chopra (born 1971), American author and businesswoman *Mallika Dutt (born 1962), Indian human rights activist *Mallika Kapoor (born 1985), Indian actress *Mallika Sarabhai (born 1954), Indian dancer and activist *Mallika Sengupta (1960–2011), Indian poet *Mallika Sherawat (born 1976), Indian actress *Mallika Srinivasan (born 1959), Indian businesswoman *Mallika Sukumaran (born 1954), Indian actress * Mallika Badrinath, Indian cookery book author See also *Malika (given name) Malika is the Arabic word for 'queen' and the feminine form of the name Malik. Given name * Judith Malika Liberman (born 1978), French storyteller, writer and teacher *Malika or al-Nadirah, princess of Hatra per Perso-Arabic traditions * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hindu Prayer Beads
A japamala, , or simply mala ( sa, माला; , meaning 'garland') is a loop of prayer beads commonly used in Indian religions such as Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, and Buddhism for counting recitations when performing ''japa'' (reciting a mantra or other sacred sound) or for counting some other ''sadhana'' (spiritual practice) such as Prostration, prostrating before a holy icon. They are similar to other forms of prayer beads used in various world religions and are sometimes referred to in Christianity as a "rosary". The main body of a mala is usually 108 (number)#Buddhism, 108 beads of roughly the same size and material as each other though smaller versions, often factors of 108 such as 54 or 27, exist. A distinctive 109th "guru bead", not used for counting, is very common. Mala beads have traditionally been made of a variety of materials such as wood, stone, seeds, bone and precious metals—with various religions often favouring certain materials—and strung with natural ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buddhist
Buddhism ( , ), also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya (), is an Indian religion or philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha. It originated in northern India as a -movement in the 5th century BCE, and gradually spread throughout much of Asia via the Silk Road. It is the world's fourth-largest religion, with over 520 million followers (Buddhists) who comprise seven percent of the global population. The Buddha taught the Middle Way, a path of spiritual development that avoids both extreme asceticism and hedonism. It aims at liberation from clinging and craving to things which are impermanent (), incapable of satisfying ('), and without a lasting essence (), ending the cycle of death and rebirth (). A summary of this path is expressed in the Noble Eightfold Path, a training of the mind with observance of Buddhist ethics and meditation. Other widely observed practices include: monasticism; " taking refuge" in the Buddha, the , and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hindu
Hindus (; ) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism.Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pages 35–37 Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for people living in the Indian subcontinent. The term ''"Hindu"'' traces back to Old Persian which derived these names from the Sanskrit name ''Sindhu'' (सिन्धु ), referring to the river Indus. The Greek cognates of the same terms are "''Indus''" (for the river) and "''India''" (for the land of the river). The term "''Hindu''" also implied a geographic, ethnic or cultural identifier for people living in the Indian subcontinent around or beyond the Sindhu (Indus) River. By the 16th century CE, the term began to refer to residents of the subcontinent who were not Turkic or Muslims. Hindoo is an archaic spelling variant, whose use today is considered derogatory. The historical development of Hindu self-identity within the local In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mauro (other)
Mauro may refer to: Given name * Mauro (footballer, born 1932), Brazilian footballer * Mauro Silva (footballer, born 1978), Brazilian footballer * Mauro (footballer, born 1984), Portuguese footballer * Bruno Mauro (born 1973), Angolan footballer * Fra Mauro (15th century), Venetian monk and mapmaker * Mauro Barella (born 1956), Italian pole vaulter * Mauro Blanco (born 1965), Bolivian footballer * Mauro Camoranesi (born 1976), Italian football manager and former player * Mauro Díaz (born 1991), Argentine footballer * Mauro Esposito (born 1979), Italian footballer * Mauro Eustáquio (born 1993), Canadian soccer player * Mauro Giuliani (1781–1829), Italian guitarist and composer * Mauro Hamza, fencing coach * Mauro Icardi (born 1993), Argentine footballer * Mauro Pagani (born 1946), Italian musician * Mauro Pawlowski (born 1971), Belgian musician * Mauro Prosperi (born 1955), Italian police officer and pentathlete * Mauro Ramos (1930–2002), Brazilian footballer * Mauro Ranallo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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