Sarah (given name)

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Sarah
Pronunciation/ˈsɛərə/
French: [sa.ʁa]
German: [zaːʁa]
Spanish: [ˈsaɾa]
Portuguese: [ˈsaɾɐ]
Italian: [ˈsaːra]
Arabic: [ˈsaːra]
GenderFemale
Origin
Word/nameHebrew[1] Arabic Middle Eastern
Meaning"lady", "princess", "noblewoman", “happy” and “joy”[1]
Other names
Related namesSara, Sarai, Sadie, Sasa, Seira, Sairah, Sally

Sarah is a feminine given name found in many different areas of the world. It is a consistently popular given name across Europe and North America,[1] and the Middle East—being commonly used as a female first name by Jews and Christians alike, and remaining popular also among non-religious members of cultures influenced by these religions.

In Arabic, Sarah means "joy" or "delight". In Hebrew, it means "woman of high rank", often simply translated as "princess". In Syriac it means the moon, which may explain the Hebrew reference to ‘woman of high rank’.[citation needed] In Modern Hebrew, "sarah" (שרה) is the female form of the word "minister". Frequently, the name refers to Sarah, the wife of Abraham in the Hebrew Bible, the Christian Old Testament, and the Islamic Quran.

In the United States, Sarah has been counted among the top 150 given names since 1880, when name popularity statistics were first recorded in the United States. Sarah ranked among the top 10 names from 1978 to 2002, reaching a plateau of popularity from the early 1980s to 1988. Every year since and including 1989 it has fallen in popularity, but it remained the 30th most popular name for newborn girls in 2010. Its most common variant spelling, Sara, was number 121.[2]

The Name Sara also has Indian roots referring to "Geeta Sara" meaning the conclusion of Bhagwadgeeta. Sara also has multiple meanings in Sanskrit such as essence, main point, substance, etc . [3]

The name has been similarly popular in Ireland and the United Kingdom. In England, it gained popularity after the Protestant Reformation.[1] In 2014, Sarah ranked as the tenth most popular female baby name in Ireland.[4]

In Nazi Germany, female Jews who did not have "typically Jewish" given names were forced to add "Sara" as of January 1939, whereas males were forced to add "Israel".[5][6]

Translations[]

  • Albanian: Sara
  • Amharic: ሳራ (Sara)
  • Arabic: ساره
  • Aramaic:ܣܪܐ
  • Armenian: Սառա
  • Azerbaijani: Sara
  • Bashkir: Сара (Sara)
  • Belarusian: Сара (Sara)
  • Balochi: saraa
  • Bengali: সারাহ (Sārāha)
  • Biblical Greek: Sarra
  • Biblical Latin: Sara
  • Bosnian: Sara
  • Bulgarian: Сара (Sara)
  • Catalan: Sara
  • Chinese Simplified: 莎拉 (pinyin: Shā lā)
  • Chinese Traditional: 莎拉 (pinyin: Shā lā)
  • Croatian: Sara
  • Czech: Sára
  • Danish: Sara
  • Dutch: Sarah, Sara
  • Estonian: Saara
  • English: Sarah, Sara
  • Faroese: Sára
  • Finnish: Saara, Sari, Saija, Salli, Sara
  • French: Sarah
  • German: Sarah, Sara
  • Greek: Σάρα (Sára)
  • Gujarati: સારાહ (Sārāha)
  • Haitian Creole: Sara
  • Hawaiian: Kala
  • Hebrew: שרה (Sārā)
  • Hindi: सराह (Sarāha)
  • Hungarian: Sára, Sári, Sárika, Sarolta, Sasa
  • Icelandic: Sara
  • Iranian: سارا
  • Italian: Sara
  • Irish: Sorcha, Saraid, Sarah
  • Japanese: サラ (Sara), 沙羅 (Sara)
  • Kannada: ಸಾರಾ (Sārā)
  • Khmer: សារ៉ា (Sarea)
  • Korean: 사라 (Sara)
  • Lithuanian: Sara
  • Macedonian: Сара (Sara)
  • Maori: Hara
  • Marathi: सारा (Sārā)
  • Mongolian: Сара (Sara)
  • Malayalam: സാറ, Sara, Saramma
  • Nepali: सारा (Sārā)
  • Norwegian: Sara
  • Persian: سارا
  • Polish: Sara
  • Portuguese: Sara
  • Romanian: Sara
  • Russian: Сара (Sara), Sarka, Sarra
  • Sanskrit: सार (Sara)
  • Serbian: Сара/Sara
  • Slovak: Sára
  • Slovene: Sara
  • Somali: Sara
  • Spanish: Sara, Sarita, Zara
  • Swedish: Sara
  • Tamil: சாரா (Cārā)
  • Telugu: సారా (Sārā)
  • Thai: ซาร่าห์ (Sā r̀ā h̄̒)
  • Tigrigna: ሳራ (Sara)
  • Turkish: Sare
  • Uzbek: Sora
  • Ukrainian: Сара (Sara)
  • Urdu: سارہ
  • Vietnamese: Sara
  • Welsh: Sara
  • Yiddish: שרה (Soro), Sirke

Other forms[]

  • Other variants of the name are: Sara (alternatively pronounced /ˈsɑːrə/)
  • Pet forms of the name are: Sally, Sadie

See also[]

  • Sarah (disambiguation)
  • All pages with titles beginning with Sara
  • All pages with titles beginning with Sarah

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d "Behind the Name: Sarah". Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  2. ^ Popular Baby Names, Social Security Administration, United States. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
  3. ^ https://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/scans/SHSScan/2020/web/mobile1/index.php
  4. ^ "PASSPORTS ISSUED 2014 - 3 Years of Age or Under" (PDF). Retrieved 6 March 2015.
  5. ^ "Law on Alteration of Family and Personal Names — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum".
  6. ^ Schreiber, Mordecai; Schiff, Alvin I.; Klenicki, Leon (2003), The Shengold Jewish Encyclopedia, Schreiber, ISBN 9781887563772
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