Sara (name)

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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

family name

  • Robert Sarah (* 1945), Guinean clergyman, Archbishop of Conakry, Archbishop of the Curia
  • Anak Sarah (* 1987), Brunei Crown Princess

stage name

Fictional people

The following works in literature and film have a woman named Sara or Sarah as the title character:

Songs called Sara or Sarah

See also

  • Sara - disambiguation

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ Statistics on "Popular first names"
  3. ↑ Sara the Hermit , heiligenlexikon.de, accessed on April 14, 2019
  4. ^ Sara , heiligenlexikon.de, accessed on April 14, 2019
  5. ↑ Sido: Diss against Sarah Kuttner? , laut.de , November 16, 2006