Sarah

plural Sarahs · alternative Sara · alternative Zara · alternative Zarah

1. countableuncountablebiblicalThe wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac in the Bible.

   And God ſaid vnto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou ſhalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah ſhall her name be.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 21:4, column 1

2. countableuncountableA female given name from Hebrew.

   Speaking on the John Solomon Reports podcast this week, conservative activist and RiftTV contributor Sarah Stock attributed some of the divide to a generational split in how conservatives consume information.

   2025 July 3, Ben Whedon, “Reshaping the right: A generational divide heralds a transformation of the GOP”, in Just the News, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2025

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   I also have two daughters, by now grown up. Their names are Sarah and Anne, good sensible names. - - - I am a believer in sensible choices, so different from many of my own. Also in sensible names for children, because look what happened to Cordelia.

   1988, Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye, page 15

3. countableuncountableA female given name from Arabic, ultimately from the same source.
4. A placename:
   1. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Kentucky, United States.
   2. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in West Virginia, United States.

1. A village in Hormozgan Province, Iran.