Mara or MARA may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

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 Clara'' is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by ABS-CBN. The series is a remake of the 1992 Philippine television series of the same title. Directed by Jerome C. Pobocan and Claudio "Tots" Sanchez-Mariscal IV, it stars Kat ...

'' *

Mara Jade Mara Jade Skywalker is a fictional character in the ''Star Wars'' franchise. She appears in the '' Legends'' continuity as the wife of Luke Skywalker and mother of Ben Skywalker. She has been voiced by Heidi Shannon, Edie Mirman and Kath Souc ...

, in the Star Wars Expanded Universe *Mara Sewell, a fictional character in ''The Shield'' *Mara Wade, title character of '' Mara of the Wilderness''

Other uses in arts and entertainment

Mara the Lioness Mara the Lioness (1965–1974) was an animal actor who appeared as Elsa in the 1966 movie '' Born Free'', based on the true story of Elsa the Lioness raised by George and Joy Adamson. Mara was born in the wild in 1965, a premature cub aband ...

, an animal actor * ''Mara'' (album), a 1995 album by Scottish band Runrig *''

Mara (film) ''Mara'' is a 2018 American supernatural horror film directed by Clive Tonge in his feature-length debut and written by Jonathan Frank. The film stars Olga Kurylenko as criminal psychologist Kate Fuller, who investigates the murder of a man and i ...

'', a 2018 American supernatural horror film starring Olga Kurylenko *'' Maara'', a 2021 Indian film by Dhilip Kumar *''Mara'', an 1894 novel by

Ioan Slavici Ioan Slavici (; 18 January 1848 – 17 August 1925) was a Romanian writer and journalist from Austria-Hungary, later Romania. He made his debut in ''Convorbiri literare'' ("Literary Conversations") (1871), with the comedy ''Fata de birău'' ("Th ...

* Dance Club Mara, a formation dance team, Minsk, Belarus

Cultural and language groupings

* Mara (Tagin), a tribe in Arunachal Pradesh *

Mara language Mara (; , ; ) is a Kuki-Chin language spoken by Mara people, mostly the Tlosai tribe living in 30 villages of Chhimtuipui district, southern Mizoram, India and the adjacent villages in Myanmar (Burma). The Mara (Tlosai) languages belong to ...

, a language spoken by the Mara people of India and Burma **

Mara people The Mara (, ; , ), also historically known as ''Lakher'', are an ethnic group native to Mizoram, India, and Chin State, Myanmar. Ethnonyms While the community refers to themselves as Maras, various exonyms have been used by neighbouring trib ...

Maric languages Maran or Maric is an extinct branch of the Pama–Nyungan languages, Pama–Nyungan family of Australian languages formerly spoken throughout much of Queensland by many of the Murri peoples. The well attested Maric languages are clearly related ...

, a group of Aboriginal Australian languages also known as Mara or Maran *

Marra language Marra, sometimes formerly spelt Mara, is an Australian Aboriginal language, traditionally spoken on an area of the Gulf of Carpentaria coast in the Northern Territory around the Roper, Towns and Limmen Bight Rivers. Marra is now an endan ...

, an Aboriginal Australian language (also known as Mara) **

Marra people The Marra, formerly sometimes referred to as Mara, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory. Language Multilingualism was the norm in pre-contact Aboriginal Australia, though one's primary group identity was formed by the ...

, an Aboriginal Australian people

Folklore, mythology, and religion

Mara (demon) Mara,, '; ; or ; ; also マーラ, ''Māra'' or 天魔, ''Tenma''; ; ; Tibetan Wylie: ''bdud''; ; ; ; in Buddhism, is a malignant celestial Asura king who tried to stop The Buddha, Prince Siddhartha from Awakening by trying to seduce him w ...

, in Buddhism *

Mara (folklore) A mare (, ; Old Norse, Old High German and Swedish: ; ) is a malicious entity in Germanic and Slavic folklore that walks on people's chests while they sleep, bringing on nightmares. Bjorvand, Harald; and Lindeman, Fredrik Otto edd. (2000). ...

, a wraith-like creature in Germanic and Scandinavian folklore *

Mara (Hindu goddess) Mara () is a Sanskrit word meaning "death" or any personification thereof; it may also refer to Mrtyu () or Mrtyu Devi (). In Hinduism, Mara is the goddess of death and offerings would be placed at her altar. Though much less popular, some sect ...

of death *Mara, anagram of Rama, for

Valmiki Valmiki (; , ) was a legendary poet who is celebrated as the traditional author of the epic ''Ramayana'', based on the attribution in the text itself. He is revered as ''Ādi Kavi'', the first poet, author of ''Ramayana'', the first epic poe ...

to chant in Hindu mythology *

Marzanna Morana (in Czech, Slovene, Bosnian, Croatian and Montenegrin), Morena (in Slovak and Macedonian), Mora (in Bulgarian), Mara (in Ukrainian), Morė (in Lithuanian), Marena (in Russian), or Marzanna (in Polish) is a pagan Slavic pantheon, Slavic ...

or Mara, Slavic goddess *

Māra Māra is the highest-ranking goddess in Latvian mythology, the ancient Dawn-goddess, previously called Austra, and, not at all, although often stated, the same as Zemes māte ( Mother Earth, pace). Names Alternative names: Māre, Mārīte (d ...

, Latvian goddess

Military and transport

MARA (anti-tank weapon) The MARA is a portable one-shot 78 mm unguided anti-tank weapon, designed and manufactured in Argentina by Fabricaciones Militares (DGFM). The solid rocket propulsion unit was developed by CITEFA. History In the 1990s, the Argentine A ...

, Argentine antitank missile * Mirage 5P Mara, upgraded

Dassault Mirage 5 The Dassault Mirage 5 is a French supersonic attack aircraft/fighter-bomber designed by Dassault Aviation during the 1960s and manufactured in France and other countries. It was derived from Dassault's popular Mirage III fighter and spawned sev ...

aircraft for Argentine Air Force * Shell Mara, a

Lake tanker Lake tankers were small (up to 5,000 ton) specially designed shallow-draft tanker ships that carried the crude oil, pumped from beneath Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, to the three off-shore refineries located on the Dutch islands of Aruba and Cur ...

operated in Lake Maracaibo by Shell Oil * SS ''Mara'', a

operated in Lake Maracaibo by Lago Oil and Transport Company

Organisations

Mara (gang) A ''mara'' (or ''marabunta'') is a form of gang originating in the United States (California, Los Angeles), which spread to Central American countries such as El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. Definition of mara A mara is regarded as a group o ...

, a form of gang in the United States, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala *

Mara Group Mara Corporation is a multi-sector business services company. It operates in the technology, financial services, manufacturing, real estate and agriculture industries. The company was founded by Ashish J. Thakkar in 1996, and is now active in 24 ...

, a multinational and multisectoral corporation with roots in East Africa *

Marathon Digital MARA Holdings, Inc. is an American digital asset technology company, which engages in mining cryptocurrencies, with a focus on the blockchain ecosystem and the generation of digital assets. The company was founded on February 23, 2010 and is head ...

, an American digital asset technology firm which trades on the Nasdaq as MARA *

Majlis Amanah Rakyat Majlis Amanah Rakyat (MARA; ) is a Malaysian government agency. It was formed to aid, train, and guide Bumiputra (Malay people, Malays and other indigenous Malaysians) in the areas of business and industry. MARA was formed on 1 March 1966, un ...

(People's Trust Council), MARA, a Malaysian government agency *

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Ministry may refer to: Government * Ministry (collective executive), the complete body of government ministers under the leadership of a prime minister * Ministry (government department), a department of a government Religion * Christian mi ...

, a Chinese central government ministry *

Migration Agents Registration Authority The Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority (OMARA) is an Australian Government authority that registers migration agents and regulates the Migration Agents profession. Migration agents assist people to migrate to Australia by usin ...

, the Australian regulator of migration agents *

Universiti Teknologi MARA The MARA Technological University ( Malay: ''Universiti Teknologi MARA''; Jawi: اونيۏرسيتي تيكنولوڬي مارا; abbr. UiTM) is a public university in Malaysia, based primarily in Shah Alam, Selangor. It was established to ...

, 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 The Bushveld (from Afrikaans: ''bosveld'', Afrikaans: ''bos'' 'bush' and ) is a Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands, sub-tropical woodland ecoregion of Southern Africa. The ecoregion straddles the Tropic of Capricorn ...

of South Africa *Mara, a village in

Desești Desești (, or ''Desest'') is a commune in Maramureș County, Maramureș, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Desești, Hărnicești (''Hernécs''), and Mara (''Crăcești'' until 1956; ''Krácsfalva''). The commune belongs to the Baia ...

Commune, Maramureș County, Romania *Mara, a village in

Tararua District The Tararua District is a Districts of New Zealand, district near the south-east corner of New Zealand's North Island that is administered by the Tararua District Council. It has a population of and an area of 4,364.62 km². The district' ...

, part of Wellington Region, New Zealand * Mara District, a district in the province of Cotabambas, Apurimac, Peru *

Mara (Iza) The Mara () is a left tributary of the river Iza in Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the w ...

, a river in northern Romania *

Mara Lake Mara Lake is a lake in the Shuswap Country region of south central British Columbia, Canada. To the west is Hyde Mountain and east is Morton Peak. The outlet of the Shuswap River forms the upper reaches. The lower end enters the narrows at Sicamou ...

, 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 Mara Region (''Mkoa wa Mara'' in Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions. The region covers an area of . The region is comparable in size to the combined land area of the nation state of El Salvador. for El Salvador at The nei ...

, an administrative division in Tanzania * Mara River (Nunavut), a river in Canada *

Mara River The Mara River is a river that begins in Narok County in Kenya and ends in Mara Region in Tanzania. It lies across the migration path of ungulates in the Maasai Mara/Serengeti National Park, Serengeti ecosystem. The River's flow The Mara Rive ...

, a river of Kenya and Tanzania * Măra River, a river in Romania *

Marado Marado () or Mara Island is an island in Jeju Province, South Korea. It is South Korea's southernmost island, and is off the south coast of Jeju Island. It has an area of and is home to about 90 people. It has long been reputed for having stron ...

or Mara Island, South Korea *

Masai Mara Maasai Mara, sometimes also spelt Masai Mara and locally known simply as The Mara, is a large national game reserve in Narok County, Kenya, contiguous with the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. It is named in honour of the Maasai people, th ...

, known locally as "The Mara", a reserve in Kenya near the Mara River

Other uses

Mara (mammal) Maras, subfamily Dolichotinae, are a group of rodents in the family Caviidae. These large relatives of guinea pigs are common in the Patagonian steppes of Argentina, but also live in Paraguay and elsewhere in South America. There are two extant ...

, a subfamily of the cavy family * MaraDNS, DNS software * Mandibular Anterior Repositioning Appliance, an orthodontic functional appliance