Kara

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name = Kara


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gender = Female
meaning = Joy, (root word "Charis" (Gk.). Joy out of the gift received) also means love/ dear one in celtic and latin culture
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Kara is a female given name. It may refer to

;Real people:
* Kara Lynn Joyce, US Olympic Swimmer
* Kara Crane
* Kara Dennison
* Kara Edwards
* Kara Lawson
* Kara Dornbusch
* Kara Tointon, British actress
* Kara Bill Glockenspiel the III
* Kara Kopacz Horse-Back Riding Champion

;Fictional characters:
* Kara Milovy, a Bond girl in "The Living Daylights"
* Kara Thrace, a female lieutenant by the callsign "Starbuck" in the "Battlestar Galactica" series
* Kara Zor-El, the Kryptonian name of the DC Comics character Supergirl
* Kara Ben Nemsi, a fictional character in the works of Karl May

;Fictional Places:
* Kara Slang term used for the World of Warcraft Level 70 10-man instance "karazahn";Other uses:
*A Turkic word meaning "black", "blank", or "empty" (Karakum, Qaraqalpakstan
*Kara Mustafa Paşa, a Turkish grand vezir in the Ottoman era
*Kara crater, a meteorite crater in northern Russia
*Kara language
*Kara (Kaushambi), a town in Kaushambi near Allahabad
*Kara (Togo), a city in northern Togo
*Kara class cruiser, a Soviet Cold War warship design
*Kara (Sikhism), a type of bracelet worn by followers of the Sikh faith
*Kara Sea, a sea in the Arctic Ocean
*Kara (ethnic group), a group living on Ukerewe island in Tanzania
*Kara's Flowers- the original name for the group Maroon 5.
*Kara (band), a Korean girl group.