sara
/sˈɛɹə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.96 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], variant of Sarah.
Example Sentences
- "Through faith also Sara her selfe receiued strength to conceiue seede, and was deliuered of a child when she was past age, because she iudged him faithful who had promised."
- "Olive learnt that her young beauty's name, so far from being anything so fine as Maddalena, was plain Sarah — or Sara, as its owner took care to explain. Olive was rather disappointed - but she thought of Coleridge's ladye love; consoled herself, and tried to console the young lady, with repeating My pensive Sara! thy soft cheek reclined, &c. At which Miss Sara Derwent laughed, and asked who wrote that very pretty poetry?"
- "The oldest Weaver girls, Sara, 16, and Rachel, 10, were unharmed, as was their infant sister, Elisheba, whom Vicki had been holding when a sniper’s bullet crashed into her head."
- "'I wish I was called Sara,' she said out loud. 'Sarah?' her mother said. 'Why the heck is being called Sarah better than being called Tracy?' 'Not Sarah, Sara,' Tracy said. 'There's no h, you say Saaara.'"
- "“It was absolutely terrible,” [Richard] Spencer told CNN’s Sara Ganim by phone hours after the assault. “I’ve certain never had this happen before – a sucker punch in broad daylight.”"
Etymology
From Latin Sara (“Sarah”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Sara
Inflected Forms
Saras (plural)