Ara

Ara may refer to:

Biology

 * Ara (bird), a genus of parrots
 * Ara (fish) (Niphon spinosus), a species of fish
 * L-arabinose operon, also known as ara

Places

 * Ara (mountain), a mountain in Armenia
 * Ara, Armenia, a village in Armenia
 * Ara, Bihar, a city in India
 * Ara, Ramgarh, a town in Jharkhand, India
 * Ara, Ranchi, a town in Jharkhand, India
 * Ara, Iran, a village in Iran
 * 'Ara, a village in Israel
 * Ara (lake), a lake in Norway
 * Arakawa River (disambiguation), also known as Ara, several rivers in Japan
 * River Ara, Ireland

Given name

 * Ara the Beautiful, a legendary Armenian hero
 * Ara Ball, Canadian film director
 * Ara Bartlett (fl. 1825–1880), American lawyer and judge
 * Ara Dinkjian (born 1958), Armenian oud player and composer
 * Go Ara (born 1990), South Korean actress and model
 * Ara Parseghian (1923–2017), American football player and coach
 * Yoo Ara (born 1992), South Korean singer and dancer; leader of the girl group Hello Venus
 * Ara Guler (1928-2018), Armenian-Turkish photojournalist
 * Ara, a diminutive of the Russian feminine given name Avrora (a form of Aurora)
 * Ara Spence (1793–1866), Justice of the Maryland Court of Appeals

Surname

 * Arilena Ara (born 1998), Albanian singer also known mononymously as Arilena
 * Guido Ara (1888–1975), Italian association football player
 * Rachel Ara (born 1965), British conceptual and data artist
 * Seiji Ara (born 1974), Japanese race car driver
 * Zinat Ara (born 1953), Bangladeshi justice

Media

 * Ara (film), a 2008 Turkish drama directed by Ümit Ünal
 * Ara (newspaper), a Catalan-language daily newspaper from Barcelona
 * "Ara", a song by Brymo from The Son of a Kapenta
 * Ara, Zeynep Bastık's Turkish cover of "Paro" by Nej'

Other uses

 * Ara (constellation)
 * Ara (goddess), a Mesopotamian goddess
 * A'ra, a pre-Islamic Arabian god
 * Ara (drink), traditional Bhutanese wine
 * ISO 639-2 and -3 language codes for Arabic
 * Ara Institute of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
 * Project Ara, a modular phone initiative by Google