Bara may refer to:

Names

* Bara (name), a given name and surname *

Barah (surname) Bora, also spelled Borah or Barah, is an Assamese surname used commonly throughout Assam. Historical usage Originally, the ''Bora'' surname was used as a high military position/title in the Chutia Kingdom held by individuals from the ''Buruk'' cla ...

or Borah, an Assamese surname

Places

Bhutan

Bara Gewog Bara Gewog is a former gewog (village block) of Samtse District, Bhutan. The gewog has an area of 186 square kilometres and contains 474 households. Bara Gewog comprises part of Sipsu Dungkhag (sub-district), together with Tendu, Biru, Lehereni ...

, a former village block of Samtse District

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bara Lake Natural lakes in Bosnia and Herzegovina take , which is a little more than 0.12% of the total surface area of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Buško Blato is the largest lake, its size being 56.7 km2. Blidinje lake is the largest natural mountain ...

* Bara, Bosanski Petrovac, a village in Bosanski Petrovac municipality

Germany

* Bära, a river in Baden-Württemberg

India

Bara, Punjab Bara is a village in Rupnagar District in Punjab, India. The village has mainly two Jatt Sikh surnames Chakkal and Heer and lies on the Rupnagar-Morinda Road at the left bank of a seasonal monsoon rivulet called Budki Nadi, about four kilomete ...

, a village and archaeological site * Bara, Allahabad, a town in Uttar Pradesh *

Bara, Dildarnagar Bara is a village of Dildarnagar Kamsar in Ghazipur District, Ghazipur district in the India, Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is situated on the banks of the holy river Ganges. The majority of the residents are Muslims, Muslim (Pashtuns, Pat ...

, a village in Uttar Pradesh * Bara, North 24 Parganas, a census town in West Bengal * Bara, Raebareli, a village in Uttar Pradesh

Iran

Bara, Iran Baba ( fa, بابا, also Romanized as Bābā; also known as Bāra, Bārah, Bāveh, and Bāwa) is a village in Gol-e Cheydar Rural District, Sarshiv District, Marivan County, Kurdistan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 58, ...

, a village in Kurdistan Province

Mali

Bara, Gao Region Bara is a rural commune and village in the Cercle of Ansongo in the Gao Region of south-eastern Mali Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, i ...

, a village and rural commune

Nepal

* Bara District, Nepal

Nigeria

Bara, Nigeria Bara is a town in Oyo State of southwestern Nigeria. It is located just west of the Oko-Iressa-Aadu Road. The majority of the people are members of the Yoruba ethnic group. Most of the people are employed in agriculture with locally produced y ...

, a town in Oyo State

Pakistan

Bara, FATA Bara ( ps, باړه; ur, ) is a town located in Bara Tehsil in Khyber Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Kohat is located to the south while Peshawar is located to the north of Bara. Overview Bara is also the name of the local administrative divis ...

, a town in the Khyber Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas *

Bara Tehsil Bara Tehsil ( ur, ) is a subdivision located in Khyber District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Geography Adjacent administrative units *Nazyan District, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan (north) *Landi Kotal Tehsil (north) *Jamrud Tehsil (nor ...

, a district in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas * Bara River, Khyber Agency

Poland

* Bara, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

Romania

* Bara, Timiș, a commune in Timiș County *

Bâra Bâra is a commune in Neamț County, Western Moldavia, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Bâra, Negrești, and Rediu. In Rediu, in the summer of 2014, the Maryam Mosque for Romanian converts to Islam Islam (; ar, ۘالِإس� ...

, a commune in Neamţ County * Bâra, a village in Bereni Commune, Mureș County * Bâra, a village in Balta Doamnei Commune, Prahova County

Slovakia

* Bara, Trebišov, a village in Trebišov District, Slovakia

Spain

* Bara, Aragon, a village in Sabiñánigo, Spain

Sudan

* Barah, Sudan, a town in Kurdufan, Sudan

Sweden

* Bara Hundred, a locality in Scania * Bara, Scania, Svedala Municipality * Bara, part of Hörsne-Bara, Gotland

Syria

Bara, Syria Bara or al-Bara ( ar, بارة) is one of the former "Dead Cities" in northwestern Syria. It is located in the Zawiya Mountain approximately north from Hama and approx. 80 km southwest from Aleppo. Al-Bara is also town in Ariha district. ...

, a village

UK

Bara, East Lothian Bara, anciently spelt Baro, is an agricultural parish in East Lothian, Scotland, which adjoins the parish of Garvald to the east, and Lauder across the Lammermuir Hills. It is south-west of Haddington. About 1340, Robert de Lawder, Justiciary ...

, a parish in Scotland

Other uses

* Bara, a former Chilean unit of measurement * Bara or Tetsuo Sakaibara, Japanese musician and former member of Merzbow * Bara, a unit of absolute pressure; see

bar (unit) The bar is a metric unit of pressure, but not part of the International System of Units (SI). It is defined as exactly equal to 100,000 Pa (100 kPa), or slightly less than the current average atmospheric pressure on Earth at sea leve ...

* '' Bara'', a painting by

Jean Jacques Henner Jean-Jacques Henner (5 March 1829 – 23 July 1905) was a French painter, noted for his use of sfumato and chiaroscuro in painting nudes, religious subjects and portraits. Biography Henner was born at Bernwiller (Alsace). He began his studi ...

Bara (drum) The ''bara'' ( bm, ߓߊ߬ߙߊ, italics=no; also called ''bendré'') is a spherical hand drum with a body made from a dried gourd or calabash, used in West Africa (primarily Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, and Mali). Its single head is made of ...

, a drum used in Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire * ''Bara'' (film), a 1980 Indian Kannada-language film * Bara (genre), a genre of Japanese media, especially comics, aimed at gay men * ''Bara'' (insect), a genus of insects in the family

Tetrigidae Tetrigidae is an ancient family in the order Orthoptera, which also includes similar families such as crickets, grasshoppers, and their allies. Species within the Tetrigidae are variously called groundhoppers, pygmy grasshoppers,Borror DJ, Tripp ...

called ground-hoppers *

Bara people The Bara people are a Malagasy ethnic group living in the southern part of the central plateaus of Madagascar, in the Toliara Province, concentrated around their historic capital at Ihosy. The Bara are the largest of the island's zebu-herding ...

, a people of central southern Madagascar *

Bara Rifles The Bara Rifles are a paramilitary regiment forming part of the Frontier Corps Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (North) of Pakistan. The name alludes to the Bara River and Bara Tehsil (a subdivision of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province). The Rifles are tasked wi ...

, a Pakistani paramilitary regiment *

British Automation and Robot Association The British Automation and Robot Association (BARA) is a UK trade membership organisation headquartered in Wallington, Surrey. History BARA was founded as the British Robot Association (BRA) in 1977. As a trade and academic membership associa ...

* Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital or Bara, a hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa * Vada (food) or Bara, a savoury fritter-type snack from South India