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

People
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

See also
ARA (disambiguation) (acronym)
Ara Ara, an ethnic group of Australia
Ara Gaya, a city-state kingdom in the Gaya confederacy, in modern-day Haman County, South Korea
Arra (disambiguation)
Arrah (disambiguation)
McAra (disambiguation)