Kumara may refer to:
Places
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Kumara (Mali), a province
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Kumara, New Zealand, a town
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Kumara (New Zealand electorate)
Kumara was a parliamentary New Zealand electorates, electorate in the West Coast, New Zealand, West Coast region of New Zealand, from 1881 to 1890.
Population centres
The previous electoral redistribution was undertaken in 1875 for the 1875–1 ...
, a Parliamentary electorate
Other uses
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Kumara Illangasinghe
Kumara Illangasinghe, (B.Sc., B.D., M.Litt) is a former Anglican Bishop of Ceylon. After his ordination in 1971, he served in parishes including Thalampitiya, Rathmeewela and Aragoda. After that, he was appointed as the chaplain of Trinity Colleg ...
, an Anglican bishop in Sri Lanka
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Kumara (surname)
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Four Kumaras, sages from the Hindu tradition
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Sweet potato
The sweet potato or sweetpotato (''Ipomoea batatas'') is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the Convolvulus, bindweed or morning glory family (biology), family, Convolvulaceae. Its large, starchy, sweet-tasting tuberous roots are used as a r ...
, called ''kumara'' in New Zealand
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Sweet potato cultivation in Polynesia, for information about kumara in a Polynesian context
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''Kumara'' (plant), a genus of plants from South Africa related to ''Aloe''
* A Hindu god and general, also named
Kartikeya
Kartikeya ( sa, कार्त्तिकेय, Kārttikeya), also known as Skanda, Subrahmanya, Shanmukha (), and Murugan ( ta, முருகன்), is the Hindu god of war. He is the son of Parvati and Shiva, the brother of Ganesha ...
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Agrius convolvuli
''Agrius convolvuli'', the convolvulus hawk-moth, is a large hawk-moth. It is common throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and New Zealand, partly as a migrant. In New Zealand, it is also known as the kumara moth, and in the Māori language ...
'', also named ''kumara moth''
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