Sara (name)
Sara , Sarah and Sahra are female given names.
Origin and meaning
The Semitic name Sara or Sarah goes back in the Jewish and Christian tradition as a rule to the biblical figure Sarai (Hebrew: שָׂרַי) ( Gen 11.29 EU ), Abraham's wife, which from Elohim ( God ) in Sarah (Hebrew: שָׂרָה) was renamed ( Gen 17.15 EU ). She is considered one of the archmothers of Israel . The (Hebrew) name Sara means princess or mistress, also princess.
The Indo-European (Aramaic-Persian) name Sahra must be distinguished from this . In the Ugaritic and Aramaic religion, the moon god as well as the "morning star" (Venus) with the name Sahra was worshiped. Since Venus embodies a female deity as the morning and evening star, Venus was also nicknamed the Lady of Heaven .
distribution
In the era of National Socialism from 1938 by virtue of the name change regulation all Jewish women and girls forced additionally named Sara to accept, if not already contributed a first name, in Nazi Germany as a "typical Jewish name was considered".
As a nickname, the name was hardly widespread before the 1970s, then its popularity increased continuously. From the mid-1980s to the mid-2000s, the name was among the ten most frequently given female first names in Germany. In the 1990s it was twice number one in the frequency statistics. Its popularity has waned somewhat since the second half of the 2000s.
Name days
Name days are July 13th for Sara the hermit and October 9th for Archmother Sara .
Variants of Semitic Sarah and Indo-European Sahra
- שרה, Sara (h) (Hebrew)
- Saro, Sahra (Aramaic)
- Sari (Finnish)
- Saarke, Saartje (Frisian, Dutch)
- Sarina (North Ossetian / Caucasian region, Japanese)
- Sarit (Hebrew)
- Zarah (German)
- Sally (English, French)
- Saar (Dutch)
- Saara (Finnish)
- Sára, nickname Sári (ka) (Hungarian)
- سارة, DMG Sāra (Arabic)
- سارّة, DMG Sārra (Arabic)
- سارا, DMG Sārā (Persian)
- صحرا, DMG Ṣaḥrā (Persian)
- Sarê (Kurdish)
- Sâre (Turkish)
Name bearer
First name
- Sarah (Archmother) , wife of Abraham
- Sara (wife of Tobias) , wife of Tobias
- Sara (doctor) or Sarah, Jewish doctor in Würzburg; see Medicine in Jewish Culture # Jewish Doctors in the Middle Ages
- Black Sara (1st century), (legendary?) Christian missionary
- Sara the Hermit (4th century), Egyptian saint
- Sara (singer) (7th century), released slave and singer in Mecca, who insulted the founder of the religion Mohammed
- Sara Agrež (* 2000), Slovenian soccer player
- Sarah Alles (* 1986), German actress
- Sarah Berg (* 1980), German actress and presenter
- Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923), French actress
- Sarah Bernstein (* ≈1985), American jazz and improvisation musician
- Sarah Blackwood (* 1980), Canadian singer-songwriter
- Sarah Brightman (* 1960), British singer and actress
- Sarah Burton (* 1974), British fashion designer
- Sara Capretti (* 1967), Swiss actress
- Sara Carbonero (* 1984), Spanish sports journalist and television reporter and presenter
- Sarah Chalke (* 1976), Canadian actress
- Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (1660–1744)
- Sarah Connor (* 1980), German pop singer
- Sara Däbritz (* 1995), German soccer player
- Sara Douglass (1957-2011), Australian author
- Sara Duterte (* 1976), Filipino politician
- Sara Dylan (* 1939), first wife of Bob Dylan
- Sarah Ferguson (* 1959), former member of the British royal family
- Sara Forestier (* 1986), French actress
- Sarah Michelle Gellar (born 1977), American actress
- Sarah Gilman (* 1996), American actress
- Sarah Hagen (* 1989), American soccer player
- Sarah Hecken (* 1993), German figure skater
- Sarah Kane (1971–1999), British playwright
- Sara Karloff (* 1938), American entrepreneur
- Sarah Kirsch (1935–2013), German writer
- Sara Klarić (* 1993), Croatian soccer player
- Sarah Knauss (1880–1999), American age record holder
- Sarah Kortmann (* 1983), German actress and theater director
- Sarah Kuttner (* 1979), German television presenter
- Zara Larsson (* 1997), Swedish pop singer
- Zarah Leander (1907–1981), Swedish actress and singer
- Sarah Lombardi (* 1992), German pop singer
- Sara Lüscher (* 1986), Swiss orienteer
- Sarah Masuch (* 1978), German actress
- Sarah Meier (* 1984), Swiss figure skater
- Sarah Nambawa (* 1985), Ugandan athlete
- Sara Nuru (* 1989), German model
- Sarah Palin (* 1964), American politician
- Sarah Jessica Parker (born 1965), American actress
- Sarah Puntigam (* 1992), Austrian soccer player
- Sarah Romert (* 1994), German soccer player
- Sarah Schnier (* 1967), German screenwriter
- Sarah Schumann (1933–2019), German painter
- Sarah Jane Scott (* 1988), American pop singer
- Sara Simeoni (* 1953), Italian athlete
- Sarah Spitzer (* 1984), German violinist
- Sarah Vaughan (1924–1990), American jazz singer
- Sara Vickers (born 1985), British actress
- Sahra Wagenknecht (* 1969), German politician
- Sarah Wiener (* 1962), Austrian cook and entrepreneur
- Sarah Zadrazil (* 1993), Austrian soccer player
family name
- Robert Sarah (* 1945), Guinean clergyman, Archbishop of Conakry, Archbishop of the Curia
- Anak Sarah (* 1987), Brunei Crown Princess
stage name
- Sarah-Jane (* 1985), Swiss folk musician
Fictional people
The following works in literature and film have a woman named Sara or Sarah as the title character:
- Miss Sara Sampson , a tragedy by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , 1755
- Sara, the little princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett , 1905
- Sarah , a manga comic by Katsuhiro Otomo , from 1990
- Sara , a Stephen King novel, 1998
- My sister Sara , novel by Ruth Weiss , 2002
- The Nazis called her Sara , Gert van Laak's contemporary document, 2004
- Sarah J. Connor , key figure in Terminator (film)
Songs called Sara or Sarah
- Sara Smile, from Hall & Oates from 1975
- Sara, by Bob Dylan in 1975
- Sara, from Fleetwood Mac in 1979
- Sarah, by Thin Lizzy in 1979
- Sara , from Starship in 1985
- Sarah, by Nino de Angelo in 2003
- Sarah, by Sido in 2006
- Sara, by Ed Sheeran in 2007
- Sara, by Chad VanGaalen in 2011
- Sarah Smiles, from Panic at the Disco from 2011
- Sarah, by Achim Amme from 2015
See also
- Sara - disambiguation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dietz-Otto Edzard among others: Reallexikon der Assyriologie and Near Eastern Archeology . Tape. 8 . De Gruyter, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-11-014809-9 , p. 364.
- ↑ Statistics on "Popular first names"
- ↑ Sara the Hermit , heiligenlexikon.de, accessed on April 14, 2019
- ^ Sara , heiligenlexikon.de, accessed on April 14, 2019
- ↑ Sido: Diss against Sarah Kuttner? , laut.de , November 16, 2006