Given name · Yiddish
שׂרה
שׂרה (sore) is a feminine given name from Hebrew. It is used in Yiddish.
YiddishWritten in Hebrew script, read right to left. In English: Sarah.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Hebrew שָׂרָה (sará); its root is Hebrew שׂ־ר־ר.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
שׂרה’s family of names
In Yiddish usage, שׂרה has a conventional equivalent in the English form Sarah.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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