Saara
Appearance
Estonian
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Saara
- Sarah (biblical character).
- a female given name of biblical origin
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Biblical Hebrew שָׂרָה (śārâ).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Saara
- Sarah (biblical character).
- 1776, The Holy Bible, Genesis 17:15:
- Ja Jumala sanoi Abrahamille: Saraita sinun emäntääs ei pidä sinun enää kutsuman Sarai; vaan Saara pitää oleman hänen nimensä.
- And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.
- a female given name
- 1977, Hannu Aho, Saara, WSOY, →ISBN, page 7:
- Me sanoimme häntä Saaraksi, ja vasta paljon myöhemmin jossain vaiheessa kävi ilmi että se todella oli hänen nimensä. Pate se oli joka nimen keksi, Saara mustien hiusten takia: Musta Saara.
- We call her Saara, only to much later realize that it in fact was her real name. Pate was the one who came up with that name, Saara, due to her black hair: "black Saara".
- 1982, Eeva Joenpelto, Elämän rouva, rouva Glad, WSOY, →ISBN, page 261:
- ―Onko se Saara vai Sara? ―Se Saara oli jotenkin niin―Tai minä vain rupesin kirjoittamaan Sara.
- ―Is it Saara or Sara? ―Saara was somehow so―or I just started writing Sara.
- 2010, Peter Franzén, Tumman veden päällä, Tammi, →ISBN, page 245:
- Saara on nätti nimi ja niin on Saarakin, ajattelen, enkä muista koko päivästä mitään muuta.
- Saara is a nice name and so is Saara, I think and cannot remember anything else from that day.
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Saara (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Saara | Saarat | |
genitive | Saaran | Saarojen | |
partitive | Saaraa | Saaroja | |
illative | Saaraan | Saaroihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Saara | Saarat | |
accusative | nom. | Saara | Saarat |
gen. | Saaran | ||
genitive | Saaran | Saarojen Saarain rare | |
partitive | Saaraa | Saaroja | |
inessive | Saarassa | Saaroissa | |
elative | Saarasta | Saaroista | |
illative | Saaraan | Saaroihin | |
adessive | Saaralla | Saaroilla | |
ablative | Saaralta | Saaroilta | |
allative | Saaralle | Saaroille | |
essive | Saarana | Saaroina | |
translative | Saaraksi | Saaroiksi | |
abessive | Saaratta | Saaroitta | |
instructive | — | Saaroin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Related terms
[edit]Statistics
[edit]- Saara is the 66th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 10,494 female individuals (and as a middle name to 2,085 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Greenlandic
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- (old orthography) Sâra
Etymology
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Saara
- a female given name from Danish
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Nuka Møller: Kalaallit aqqi (Greenlandic personal names), Oqaasileriffik 2015, →ISBN
- [1] Danskernes navne 2005, including the residents of Greenland
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Italianized spelling of Sahara.
Proper noun
[edit]Saara m
- Alternative spelling of Sahara
Derived terms
[edit]Polish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Saara f (related adjective saarski)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Saara
See also
[edit]Area states: Badenia-Wirtembergia · Bawaria · Brandenburgia · Hesja · Dolna Saksonia · Meklemburgia-Pomorze Przednie · Nadrenia Północna-Westfalia · Nadrenia-Palatynat · Saara · Saksonia · Saksonia-Anhalt · Szlezwik-Holsztyn · Turyngia |
City states: Berlin · Brema · Hamburg |
Further reading
[edit]- Saara in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: Sa‧a‧ra
Proper noun
[edit]Saara m
- Sahara (desert in Africa)
Derived terms
[edit]Categories:
- Estonian lemmas
- Estonian proper nouns
- Estonian given names
- Estonian female given names
- et:Biblical characters
- Finnish terms derived from Biblical Hebrew
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑːrɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑːrɑ/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish terms with quotations
- Finnish given names
- Finnish female given names
- Finnish kala-type nominals
- fi:Biblical characters
- Greenlandic terms borrowed from Danish
- Greenlandic terms derived from Danish
- Greenlandic lemmas
- Greenlandic proper nouns
- Greenlandic given names
- Greenlandic female given names
- Greenlandic female given names from Danish
- Italian lemmas
- Italian proper nouns
- Italian proper nouns with irregular gender
- Italian masculine nouns
- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Polish/ara
- Rhymes:Polish/ara/2 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish proper nouns
- Polish feminine nouns
- pl:Places in France
- pl:Places in Germany
- pl:Saarland
- pl:States of Germany
- Polish exonyms
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese proper nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns