Sarah

English

Etymology 1

From Biblical Hebrew שָׂרָה (śārâ, “lady, princess”), from the Biblical figure originally named Sarai (שָׂרָי (śārāy, literally “masters, princes”)).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛɚ.ə/, /ˈsɛɹ.ə/, /ˈsɑɹ.ə/; (without the Mary–marry–merry merger, also) /ˈsæ.ɹə/, /ˈse(ɪ).ɹə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛː.ɹə/, /ˈsɛə.ɹə/, /ˈsɑɹ.ə/, /ˈsæ.ɹə/
• Rhymes: -ɛɹə

  • Audio (Southern England):

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  • Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -æɹə

Proper noun

Sarah (countable and uncountable, plural Sarahs)

2. (biblical) The wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac in the Bible.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 21:4, column 1:

     And God ſaid vnto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou ſhalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah ſhall her name be.

3. A female given name from Hebrew.
   • 1988, Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye, page 15:

     I also have two daughters, by now grown up. Their names are Sarah and Anne, good sensible names. - - - I am a believer in sensible choices, so different from many of my own. Also in sensible names for children, because look what happened to Cordelia.

4. A placename
   1. An unincorporated community in Kentucky, United States.
   2. An unincorporated community in West Virginia, United States.

Alternative forms

• Sara, Zara, Zarah

Related terms

nicknames

• Sadie
• Sallie, Sally

 

Translations

the wife of Abraham

• Amharic: ሣራ (śara)
• Arabic: سَارَة (ar) f (sāra)
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܣܪܐ (sara)

• Armenian: Սառա (Saṙa)
• Bashkir: Сара (Sara)
• Belarusian: Са́ра f (Sára)
• Bengali: সারা (bn) (śara)
• Bulgarian: Са́ра f (Sára), Са́рра f (Sárra)
• Catalan: Sara (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 撒拉 (zh) (Sālā)

• Czech: Sára (cs) f
• Danish: Sara
• Dutch: Sara (nl)
• Ewe: Sara
• Faroese: Sára f
• Finnish: Saara (fi)
• French: Sara (fr) f
• Georgian: სარა (sara)
• German: Sara (de) f, Sarah (de) f
• Greek: Σάρα (el) f (Sára)

  Ancient: Σάρα f (Sára)

• Hausa: Saratu
• Hawaiian: Sara
• Hebrew: שרה (he) f (sará)
• Hungarian: Sára (hu)
• Irish: Sárá
• Italian: Sara (it)
• Japanese: サラ (ja) (Sara)
• Korean: 사라 (ko) (Sara)
• Macedonian: Сара f (Sara)
• Maori: Hara
• Northern Sami: Sárá
• Norwegian: Sara (no)
• Persian: سارا (fa) (sârâ), ساره (fa) f (sâra)
• Polish: Sara (pl) f, Saraj (pl) f
• Portuguese: Sara (pt) f
• Russian: Са́ра (ru) f (Sára), Са́рра (ru) f (Sárra)
• Scots: Saurah
• Scottish Gaelic: Sàrah f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Сара f

  Roman: Sara (sh) f

• Slovak: Sára f
• Slovene: Sara (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: Sara (hsb) f

• Spanish: Sara (es)
• Swedish: Sara (sv)
• Tajik: Соро (Soro)
• Turkish: Sara, Sare
• Ukrainian: Са́ра f (Sára)
• Urdu: سارہ f (sāra)
• Western Panjabi: سارہ f (sāra)
• Yiddish: שׂרה f (sore)

given name from Hebrew

• Arabic: سَارَة (ar) f (sāra)
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܣܪܐ (sara)

• Bashkir: Сара (Sara)
• Bengali: সারা (bn) (śara)
• Catalan: Sara (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 薩拉／萨拉 (Sàlā), (also) 莎拉 (zh) (Shālā)

• Czech: Sára (cs) f
• Danish: Sara, Sarah
• Dutch: Sara (nl), Sarah (nl)
• Ewe: Sara
• Faroese: Sára f
• Finnish: Saara (fi)
• French: Sarah (fr) f
• Galician: Sara (gl)
• Georgian: სარა (sara)
• German: Sara (de) f, Sarah (de) f
• Greek: Σάρα (el) f (Sára)

  Ancient: Σάρα f (Sára)

• Greenlandic: Saalat
• Hausa: Saratu
• Hawaiian: Kala
• Hebrew: שרה (he) f (sará)
• Hungarian: Sára (hu)
• Irish: Sorcha
• Italian: Sara (it)
• Japanese: サラ (ja) (Sara)
• Korean: 사라 (ko) (Sara)
• Latin: Sara
• Maori: Hera
• Northern Sami: Sárá
• Norwegian: Sara (no)
• Persian: ساره (fa) f (sâra)
• Polish: Sara (pl) f
• Portuguese: Sara (pt)
• Russian: Са́ра (ru) f (Sára)
• Scots: Saurah
• Scottish Gaelic: Mòr, Mòrag, Sorcha
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: Sara (hsb) f

• Spanish: Sara (es)
• Swedish: Sara (sv)
• Turkish: Sâra
• Ukrainian: Са́ра f (Sára)
• Urdu: سارہ f (sāra)
• Western Panjabi: سارہ (sāra)
• Yiddish: שׂרה f (sore)

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Sarah

1. A village in Hormozgan, Iran.

Translations

Translations

• Bengali: সরাহ (śoraho)
• Persian: سراح (sarâh)

Anagrams

• Sahar, haars, haras

Danish

Etymology

From English Sarah. Used as a modern spelling variant of the traditional Danish Sara.

Proper noun

Sarah

1. a female given name

References

• [1] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 9025 females with the given name Sarah (compared to 12 537 named Sara) have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequncy peak in the 1990s. Accessed on March 20th, 2011.

Dutch

Etymology

Likely influenced by English, which tends to represent Hebrew matres lectionis in spelling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaː.raː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Sa‧rah

Proper noun

Sarah f

1. Alternative form of Sara

French

Etymology

A spelling variant of the biblical given name Sara.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.ʁa/

Proper noun

Sarah f

1. a female given name

References

• [2] MeilleursPrénoms, based on INSEE data: 143 746 females named Sarah, compared to 18 954 named Sara, in France in 1900 - 2009, with the frequency peak in 2000. Accessed on March 29th, 2011.

German

Alternative forms

• Sara

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈzaːʁa]

• Audio (Austria):

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• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Sa‧rah

Proper noun

Sarah f

1. (biblical) Sarah
2. a female given name from Biblical Hebrew

Norwegian

Etymology

From English Sarah. Used as a modern spelling variant of the traditional Norwegian Sara.

Proper noun

Sarah

1. a female given name

References

• [3] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 2899 females with the given name Sarah, compared to 7800 named Sara, living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 2000s. Accessed on March 29th 2011.

Swedish

Etymology

From English Sarah. Used as a modern spelling variant of the traditional Swedish Sara.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Sarah c (genitive Sarahs)

1. a female given name

References

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• [4] Statistiska centralbyrån: 6971 females with the given name Sarah (compared to 62 008 named Sara) living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1990s. Accessed on March 29th, 2011.

Anagrams

• hasar

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English Sarah, from Biblical Hebrew שָׂרָה (śārâ, “lady, princess”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɾa/ [ˈsaː.ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -aɾa
• Syllabification: Sa‧rah

Proper noun

Sarah (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜇ)

1. a female given name from English