Amara

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Amara f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Carabidae – sun beetles.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota – subclass; Neoptera – infraclass; Holometabola – superorder; Coleoptera – order; Adephaga – suborder; Carabidae – family; Harpalinae – subfamily; Pterostichitae – supertribe; Zabrini – tribe; Amarina – subtribe

• (genus): Amara lunicollis – type species

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Amara

1. A female given name originating as a coinage, of modern usage taken from fantasy fiction; explained, for example, as a Sanskrit word for "eternal".
   • 2002, Richard Laymon, To Wake the Dead, Leisure Books, published 2004, →ISBN, page 11:

     "Amara? That's a beautiful name." He smiled, teasing. "And she was a wife of Pharaoh Mentuhotep the First. - - - Amara, Amara, Amara. A guy can fall in love with a name like that.

2. A port on the River Tigris in Iraq.

Amara f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Amara
2. Amara (a city in Iraq)

From amar (“bitter”).

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Amara f

1. A village in Balta Albă, Buzău, Romania
2. A city in Ialomița, Romania