Ara may refer to:

Biology

* ''Ara'' (bird), a genus of parrots * Ara (fish) (''Niphon spinosus''), a species of fish * L-arabinose operon, also known as ara

Places

* Ara (mountain), a mountain in Armenia * Ara, Armenia, a village in Armenia * Ara, Bihar, a city in India * Ara, Ramgarh, a town in Jharkhand, India * Ara, Ranchi, a town in Jharkhand, India * Ara, Iran, a village in Iran * 'Ara, a village in Israel * Ara (lake), a lake in Norway * Arakawa River (disambiguation), also known as Ara, several rivers in Japan * River Ara, Ireland

People

Given name

* Ara the Beautiful, a legendary Armenian hero * Ara Ball, Canadian film director * Ara Bartlett (fl. 1825–1880), American lawyer and judge * Ara Dinkjian (born 1958), Armenian oud player and composer * Go Ara (born 1990), South Korean actress and model * Ara Parseghian (1923–2017), American football player and coach * Yoo Ara (born 1992), South Korean singer and dancer; leader of the girl group Hello Venus * Ara Guler (1928-2018), Armenian-Turkish photojournalist *Ara, a diminutive of the Russian feminine given name Avrora (a form of

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) * Ara Spence (1793–1866), Justice of the Maryland Court of Appeals

Surname

* Arilena Ara (born 1998), Albanian singer also known mononymously as Arilena * Guido Ara (1888–1975), Italian association football player * Rachel Ara (born 1965), British conceptual and data artist * Seiji Ara (born 1974), Japanese race car driver * Zinat Ara (born 1953), Bangladeshi justice

Media

* ''Ara'' (film), a 2008 Turkish drama directed by Ümit Ünal * ''Ara'' (newspaper), a Catalan-language daily newspaper from Barcelona *"Ara", a song by Brymo from '' The Son of a Kapenta'' *''Ara'', Zeynep Bastık's Turkish cover of " Paro" by Nej' *'' Ara: History Untold'', turn-based grand strategy video game

Other uses

* Ara (constellation) * Ara (goddess), a Mesopotamian goddess * A'ra, a pre-Islamic Arabian god * Ara (drink), traditional Bhutanese wine *ISO 639-2 and -3 language codes for

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* Ara Institute of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand * Project Ara, a modular phone initiative by Google * Hape people, a Native American group also called the Ara