Bara may refer to:

Names

Bara (name) Bara is a given name and a surname. As a masculine Arabic name, Bara (براء) means "innocence". As a feminine Old Norse language, Old Norse name, Bára means ''Wind wave, wave''. https://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/Bára wikt:Bára, Bára is a Czech- ...

, a given name and surname * Barah (surname) or Borah, an Assamese surname

Places

Bhutan

* Bara Gewog, 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 The Bära is a river in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The Bära is a tributary of the Danube, and originates at the confluence of the Obere Bära (''Upper Bära'') and the Untere Bära (''Lower Bära''). The Bära, together with the Lower Bä ...

, a river in Baden-Württemberg

India

* Bara, Punjab, a village and archaeological site *

Bara, Prayagraj Bara is a town and a nagar panchayat in Prayagraj district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh ( ; UP) is a States and union territories of India, state in North India, northern India. With over 241 million inhabitant ...

, a town in Uttar Pradesh * Bara, Ghazipur, a village in Uttar Pradesh *

Bara, North 24 Parganas Bara is a census town in the Gaighata (community development block), Gaighata Community development blocks in India, CD block in the Bangaon subdivision of North 24 Parganas district in the state of West Bengal, India. Geography Bangaon subd ...

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

Iran

* Bara, Iran, a village in Kurdistan Province

Mali

* Bara, Gao Region, a village and rural commune

Nepal

Bara District Bara District ( ) is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal, located in the western part of the Madhesh Province. The district is third richest district in Nepal after Kathmandu and Morang with 3.3% share of total GDP of Nepal and highest ...

, Nepal

Nigeria

* Bara, Nigeria, a town in Oyo State

Pakistan

Bara, FATA Bara (; ) is a town located in Bara Tehsil in the Khyber District of 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 division ...

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

Bara Tehsil Bara Tehsil () 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 (northeast ...

, a district in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas *

Bara River Bara River (; ) is a river in Khyber District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. The Bara River originates in the Tirah Valley of Bara Tehsil, Khyber district. It joins the Kabul River Canal which originates from the Warsak Dam, and r ...

, Khyber Agency

Poland

* Bara, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

Romania

Bara, Timiș Bara (; ) is a commune in Timiș County, Romania. It is composed of five villages: Bara (commune seat), Dobrești, Lăpușnic, Rădmănești and Spata. Bara is located in the northeast of Timiș County, in a hilly area, from Timișoara and from ...

, a commune in Timiș County * Bâra, a commune in Neamț County * Bâra, a village in

Bereni Bereni (; Hungarian pronunciation: ) is a commune in Mureș County, Transylvania, Romania. It became an independent commune along with 6 other villages when it split from Măgherani (Nyárádmagyarós) in 2004. The commune is composed of seven vil ...

Commune, Mureș County * Bâra, a village in

Balta Doamnei Balta Doamnei is a commune in Prahova County, Muntenia, Romania. It is composed of four villages: Balta Doamnei, Bâra, Curcubeu, and Lacu Turcului. The commune lies in the Wallachian Plain, on the left bank of the Ialomița River. It is located ...

Commune, Prahova County

Slovakia

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

Spain

Bara, Aragon Bara is a locality located in the municipality of Sabiñánigo, in Huesca province, Aragon, Spain. As of 2020, it has a population of 9. Geography Bara is located 72km northeast of Huesca Huesca (; ) is a city in north-eastern Spain, within ...

, a village in

Sabiñánigo Sabiñánigo (''Samianigo'' in Aragonese) is a municipality located in the province of Huesca, Aragón, Spain, capital of the comarca of Alto Gállego. Formerly, the region was called Serrablo, hence the demonym "serrablese". Sabiñánigo is ...

, Spain

Sudan

Barah, Sudan Barah (), also Bara, is a town in North Kurdufan, central Sudan, in northeastern Africa. It is approximately 30 km north of El-Obeid, the capital of North Kurdufan. It is a regional transportation hub. It has a present population of 16,969. ...

, a town in Kurdufan, Sudan

Sweden

Bara Hundred A hundred is a geographic division formerly used in northern Germanic countries and related colonies, which historically was used to divide a larger region into smaller administrative divisions. The equivalent term in Swedish is (in Uppland als ...

, a locality in Scania *

Bara, Scania Bara is a locality situated in Svedala Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 3,444 inhabitants in 2010. Bara is approximately 12 km east of central Malmö Malmö is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, third-largest c ...

, Svedala Municipality * Bara, part of

Hörsne-Bara Hörsne-Bara is a populated area, a ''socken'' (not to be confused with parish), on the Swedish island of Gotland. Formerly two ''sockens'', Hörsne () and Bara, Bara was merged with Hörsne under the name Hörsne ''socken'' or Hörsne with Bara ...

, Gotland

Syria

Bara, Syria Bara or al-Bara () 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 a town in Ariha district. According ...

, 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 is a Japanese noise project started in 1979 by Masami Akita, best known for a style of harsh noise music. Since 1980, Akita has released over 500 recordings and collaborated with numerous artists. The name Merzbow comes from the German dada a ...

* Bara, a unit of absolute pressure; see

bar (unit) The bar is a metric unit of pressure defined as 100,000 Pa (100 kPa), though not part of the International System of Units (SI). A pressure of 1 bar is slightly less than the current average atmospheric pressure on Earth at sea ...

* Bara (Henner), a painting by Jean Jacques Henner * Bara (drum), a drum used in Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire * ''Bara'' (1982 film), an Indian Kannada-language film * ''Bara'' (1999 film), a Malaysian Malay-language film *

Bara (genre) is a colloquialism for a genre of Japanese art and media known within Japan as or . The genre focuses on male same-sex love, as created primarily by gay men for a gay male audience. ''Bara'' can vary in visual style and plot, but typically ...

, 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-herdi ...

, a people of central southern Madagascar * Bara Rifles, a Pakistani paramilitary regiment *

Bara Sangihe The Bara Sangihe (or as it is also known locally as Pedang Bara Sangihe) sword originates from North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Background The word ''bara'' means "sword" in Sangirese language, therefore it literally means "Sangirese sword". The Ba ...

, a traditional sword from Indonesia * British Automation and Robot Association *

Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital (colloquially known as Bara) is a hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is the largest hospital in Africa and seventh largest hospital in the world. It has 6,760 staff members, 3,400 beds and occup ...

or Bara, a hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa *

Vada (food) Vada, vadai, wada, bara, or bora is a category of savoury fried snacks native to India. Vadas can be described variously as fritters, cutlets, or dumplings. Vadas are sometimes stuffed with vegetables and traditionally served with chutneys an ...

or Bara, a savoury fritter-type snack from South India