Mara or MARA may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Fictional characters
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Mara ( Doctor Who), an evil being in two Doctor Who serials
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Mara (She-Ra), fictional characters from the She-Ra and the Princesses of Power and The New Adventures of He-Man animated series
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Mara Davis/Mara David/Mara del Valle, a character from Philippine drama series Mara Clara and Mara Clara (2010 TV series)
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Mara Jade, in the Star Wars Expanded Universe
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Mara Sewell, a fictional character in The Shield
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Mara Wade, title character of Mara of the Wilderness
Other uses in arts and entertainment
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Mara the Lioness, an animal actor
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Mara (album), a 1995 album by Scottish band Runrig
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Mara (film), a 2018 American supernatural horror film starring Olga Kurylenko
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Maara, a 2021 Indian film by Dhilip Kumar
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Mara, an 1894 novel by Ioan Slavici
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Dance Club Mara, a formation dance team, Minsk, Belarus
Cultural and language groupings
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Mara (Tagin), a tribe in Arunachal Pradesh
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Mara language, a language spoken by the Mara people of India and Burma
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Maric languages, a group of Aboriginal Australian languages also known as Mara or Maran
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Marra language, an Aboriginal Australian language (also known as Mara)
Folklore, mythology, and religion
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Mara (demon), in Buddhism
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Mara (folklore), a wraith-like creature in Germanic and Scandinavian folklore
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Mara (Hindu goddess) of death
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Mara, anagram of Rama, for Valmiki to chant in Hindu mythology
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Marzanna or Mara, Slavic goddess
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Māra, Latvian goddess
Military and transport
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MARA (anti-tank weapon), Argentine antitank missile
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Mirage 5P Mara, upgraded Dassault Mirage 5 aircraft for Argentine Air Force
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Shell Mara, a Lake tanker operated in Lake Maracaibo by Shell Oil
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SS Mara, a Lake tanker operated in Lake Maracaibo by Lago Oil and Transport Company
Organisations
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Mara (gang), a form of gang in the United States, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala
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Mara Group, a multinational and multisectoral corporation with roots in East Africa
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Marathon Digital, an American digital asset technology firm which trades on the Nasdaq as MARA
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Majlis Amanah Rakyat (People's Trust Council), MARA, a Malaysian government agency
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Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, a Chinese central government ministry
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Migration Agents Registration Authority, the Australian regulator of migration agents
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Universiti Teknologi MARA, a public university in Malaysia
People with the name
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Mara (name), list of people with this name
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Māra (given name), a Latvian given name
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Mára, the stage name for American musician Faith Coloccia during solo performances
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Mara (singer), Russian rock singer
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Mara, nom de guerre of Estreya Haim Ovadya, Yugoslavian partisan
Places
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Mara (torrent), a stream of Switzerland and Italy
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Mara, Aragon, a municipality in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain
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Mara, Iran, a village in Tehran province
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Mara, Isfahan, a village in Iran
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Mara, Kerman, a village in Iran
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Mara, Sardinia, a commune on the Italian island of Sardinia
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Mara, a small town in the Bushveld of South Africa
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Mara, a village in Desești Commune, Maramureș County, Romania
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Mara, a village in Tararua District, part of Wellington Region, New Zealand
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Mara District, a district in the province of Cotabambas, Apurimac, Peru
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Mara (Iza), a river in northern Romania
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Mara Lake, a lake in British Columbia, Canada
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Mara Mountain, a mountain in Greenland, and the closest mountain to the North Pole
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Mara Provincial Park (Ontario), a provincial park located near Orillia, Ontario, Canada
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Mara Provincial Park, a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada
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Mara Region, an administrative division in Tanzania
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Mara River (Nunavut), a river in Canada
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Mara River, a river of Kenya and Tanzania
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Măra River, a river in Romania
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Marado or Mara Island, South Korea
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Masai Mara, known locally as "The Mara", a reserve in Kenya near the Mara River
Other uses
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Mara (mammal), a subfamily of the cavy family
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MaraDNS, DNS software
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Mandibular Anterior Repositioning Appliance, an orthodontic functional appliance
See also
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Mahra (disambiguation)
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Marah (disambiguation)
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Maras (disambiguation)
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Marra (disambiguation)
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Maran (disambiguation)