Lara en · PROPN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈlɑː.ɹə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- lä′rə
Etymology
Anglicized from Russian Ла́ра (Lára), a Russian pet form of Larissa, known from the novel (1957) and film (1965) Dr Zhivago.
Meanings
- A suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia
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A female given name from Russian or Ukrainian.
"If we live in a country where so many people could elect Donald Trump, then that's not a country I want to live in," 17-year-old Lara Godoff told the Associated Press.
2017 January 6, “Is 'Trump-effect' to blame for US students fleeing to Canada?”, in BBC, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2025:Long after the divorce, Moran maintained the habit of giving her name as Lara to the Starbucks baristas. She had once met another Lara at Logan airport, both of them waiting for their coffees, both stepping forward when summoned. The other Lara said her parents had gone through a period of thinking that everything Russian was holy,and had named her Larissa―Lara―after the heroine of a Russian novel. Later, her parents left their hippie-hood behind and gave her younger sisters more normal names: Jennifer, Molly, Aimee.
2014, Yiyun Li, Kinder Than Solitude: A Novel, Random House, →ISBN:
- A surname.
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it Lara (female given name) · pt Lara (female given name) · de Lara (female given name) · be Лара (female given name) · fr Lara (female given name) · ru Ла́ра (female given name) · uk Лара (female given name)