Etymology

Zara

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Today it means: A female given name. Full definition →

Arabic زَهْرَة
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The story

  1. Arabic · borrowed fromزَهْرَة“flower”
  2. English todayZara

A 20th-century variant of Sarah, or explained as Arabic زَهْرَة (zahra, “flower”); given to the daughter of Princess Anne in 1981.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.