Northern Sami use
Source-reporteda female given name, equivalent to English Sarah
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- Sárá — Northern Sami definition (English Wiktionary via Kaikki)CC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
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/ˈsaːraː/ · Northern Sami (Kautokeino)
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Sárá is a feminine given name documented in Northern Sami.
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a female given name, equivalent to English Sarah
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Sara— “princess”
Sarah now and then occurs in England, as with Sara Beauchamp, (_temp._ Ed. I.,) but I suspect that she as well as Sarrota de Multon, who lived in the former reign, were alterations of some of the derivatives of the Teutonic prefix _Sig_—victory, as the masculine Saher or Serlo certainly came from Sigeheri. Sarah was never commonly used till after the Reformation, when it began to grow very popular, with its contraction Sally; and at the same time it was adopted as the…
Sarah now and then occurs in England, as with Sara Beauchamp, (_temp._ Ed. I.,) but I suspect that she as well as Sarrota de Multon, who lived in the former reign, were alterations of some of the derivatives of the Teutonic prefix _Sig_—victory, as the masculine Saher or Serlo certainly came from Sigeheri. Sarah was never commonly used till after the Reformation, when it began to grow very popular, with its contraction Sally; and at the same time it was adopted as the equivalent for no less than three Irish names—Sadhbh (pronounced Soyv), Sorcha (bright), and Saraid (excellent). The two first are still in use; but Highlanders make a still stranger use of Sarah, which they use to translate their native More (great), perhaps in consequence of its meaning.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part I, Chapter II (Patriarchal Names), Section II (Abi) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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