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The construction of Dara, including the damming of a river to provide a large and secure water supply, combined with the advanced design of the fortifications, added to its situation so close to the frontier, caused the wars that errupted during the reign of Justinian I.
In 530, Belisarius defeated the Persians near Dara, despite being outnumbered. In 540 and 544 it was attacked by Khosrau I, who was unable to take it either time. Khosrau captured it in 573, which was said to have caused Justin II to go insane. Justin's wife Sophia and his friend Tiberius II Constantine took control of the empire, and Justin died in 578. Meanwhile the Persians were able to march further into the empire, attacking Armenia, but Khosrau died in 579.
Maurice I defeated the Persians at Dara in 586 and recaptured the fortress, but the Persians under Khosrau II defeated the Byzantines in 604. This time Persians destroyed the city, but the Byzantines later rebuilt it. In 639 the Arabs captured it, and it remained in their hands until 942 when it was sacked by the Byzantines. It was sacked again by John Tzimisces in 958, but the Byzantines never recaptured it.
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"DARA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a wisdom", "the compassion", "an oak tree". |
Date "DARA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1670. (references) |
"DARA" is a common misspelling or typo for: dada, dare, darer, dark, darn, dart, data, dear. |
Crosswords: DARA |
| Specialty definitions using "DARA": Kildare. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "DARA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Hungarian (breeze, grist, sleet), Indonesian (virgin, young girl), Irish (second), Romanian (tare), Scottish (either of two : an dara fear no am fear, second), Serbo-Croatian (dead load, tare), Turkish (tare), Wolof (nil). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Dara Singh (1964) Asrama dara (1958) Jan Dara (2001) | |
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| Domain | Title |
Theater & Movies | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Calaveras de confianza que les dara su pitanza. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Columna de hierro. Campesino, la revolucion te dara la tierra!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | India | Previously, witnesses had been unwilling to identify Dara Singh. (references) |
India | In May a witness in the trial identified Dara Singh as the person who put straw under Staines's car and set it on fire. (references) | |
India | By year's end, the trial continued in Orissa of Dara Singh, a member of the Hindu extremist Bajrang Dal, who was arrested on January 31, 2000, for the Staines murders. (references) | |
Minorities | India | The Wadhwa Commission established to investigate the Staines murders presented its findings in August 1999. The report concluded that Dara Singh masterminded the killing and effectively exonerated the Hindu organizations and political parties that had been accused of complicity. (references) |
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| "DARA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 98.59% of the time. "DARA" is used about 71 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 98.59% | 70 | 39,981 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.41% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 71 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "DARA" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Dara | First name Female | 7,000 | 1,155 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "DARA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a wisdom", "the compassion", "an oak tree". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "DARA." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Dara | Male | Irish | N/A |
| Dara | Female | Jewish | N/A |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expression using "DARA": El Dara. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
dara | 111 | dara picture torres | 6 |
dara joy | 90 | corrigan dara | 6 |
dara torres | 90 | rolins dara | 6 |
dara tomanovich | 48 | dara record | 5 |
dj dara | 40 | dara tores | 5 |
dara mardin | 35 | dara jax | 5 |
bubamara dara | 34 | dara sonny story | 5 |
dara jan | 19 | cancer dara payu | 5 |
olu dara | 18 | brown dara | 4 |
dara 206000 | 15 | dara 212000 | 4 |
anak dara | 13 | dara rolinc | 4 |
dara selaput | 12 | dara rogol | 4 |
chan dara | 12 | bogel dara | 4 |
jeffrey dara | 11 | dara nude torres | 4 |
dara pecah | 9 | dara payu | 4 |
dara sedaka | 6 | dara nude tomanovich | 3 |
dara picture tomanovich | 6 | anak dara remajaku | 3 |
dara singh | 6 | birnbaum dara | 3 |
dara gomberg | 6 | author dara joy | 3 |
dara pic tomanovich | 6 | dara moschetta | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "DARA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Scottish | dara (either of two : an dara fear no am fear, second). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 1 Chronicles Chapter 2, Verse 6 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai uioi zara zambri kai aiqan kai aiman kai calcal kai dara panteV pente |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Filii quoque Zarae Zamri et Ethan et Eman Chalchal quoque et Darda simul quinque |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five of them in all. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five of them in all. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And the sons of Zerah: Zimri and Ethan and Heman and Calcol and Dara; five of them. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | 1 Chronicles Chapter 2, Verse 6 |
| Cebuano | Ug ang mga anak nga lalake ni Sara: si Simri, ug Ethan, ug Heman, ug Calcol, ug Dara; ang tanan lima. |
| Croatian | Zerahovi su sinovi bili: Zimri, Etan, Heman, Kalkol i Dara; u svemu pet. |
| Danish | Zeras Sønner: Zimri, Etan, Heman, Kalkol og Darda, i alt fem. |
| Dutch | En de kinderen van Zerah waren Zimri, en Ethan, en Heman, en Chalcol, en Dara. Deze allen zijn vijf. |
| Finnish | Ja Serahin pojat olivat Simri, Eetan, Heeman, Kalkol ja Daara; heitä oli kaikkiaan viisi. |
| French | Fils de Zérach: Zimri, Éthan, Héman, Calcol et Dara. En tout: cinq. - |
| German | Die Kinder aber Serahs sind: Simri, Ethan, Heman, Chalkol, Dara. Diese alle sind fünf. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Zerah mempunyai lima anak laki-laki: Zimri, Etan, Heman, Kalkol, dan Dara. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Dan bani Zerah itulah Zimri dan Etan dan Heman dan Khalkol dan Dara, semuanya lima orang. |
| Italian | Figli di Zerach: Zimri, Etan, Eman, Calcol e Darda; in tutto: cinque. |
| Maori | Ko nga tama a Tera; ko Timiri, ko Etana, ko Hemana, ko Karakoro, ko Rara: huihuia ratou ka tokorima. |
| Portuguese | Os filhos de Zerá: Zinri, Etã, Hemã, Calcol e Dara; cinco ao todo. |
| Rumanian | Fiii lui Zerah: Zimri, Etan, Heman, Calcol wi Dara. De toyi: cinci. |
| Russian | уЩОПЧШС ъБТЩ: ъЙНТЙ, еЖБО, еНБО, иБМЛПМ Й дБТБ; ЧУЕИ ЙИ СФЕТП. |
| Spanish | Los hijos de Zéraj fueron: Zimri, Eitán, Hemán, Calcol y Darda; cinco en total. |
| Swedish | Seras söner voro Simri, Etan, Heman, Kalkol och Dara, tillsammans fem. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "DARA": deodara. (additional references) | |
Words containing "DARA": deodaras, sandarac, sandaracs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-r" | |
-1 letter: rad. | |
-2 letters: aa, ad, ar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-r" | |
+1 letter: award, damar, drama, farad, radar. | |
+2 letters: aboard, abrade, abroad, acarid, afeard, afraid, aramid, arcade, armada, awards, bayard, canard, cardia, chadar, damars, dammar, datary, datura, dharma, dharna, dramas, farads, hazard, madras, maraud, mazard, parade, pardah, radars, radial, radian, radula, randan, sardar, sradha, tabard, vaward. | |
+3 letters: abfarad, abraded, abrader, abrades, acarids, acaroid, adapter, adaptor, admiral, adrenal, aerated, afeared, aggrade, airdate, airhead, airward, alarmed, already, aneared, aramids, araneid, arcaded, arcades, arcadia, armadas, armband, armload, arrased, arrayed, ascarid, aurated, awarded, awardee, awarder, awkward, bahadur, bandora, barmaid, bastard, bayards, bidarka, bradawl, bravado, broadax, cadaver, caldera, canards, carabid, cardiac, cardiae, cardias, carload, chadars, charade, craaled, crawdad, czardas, damager, dammars, daresay, darshan, dastard, daturas, daymare, daystar, deodara, dharmas, dharnas, diagram, diorama, drachma, drawbar, drayage, drayman, faraday, faradic, gabbard, garaged, gardant, garland, gradate, gradual, grandad, grandam, grandma, grandpa, gravida, hadarim, haggard, halyard, handcar, hardhat, hardpan, hayward, hazards, jarhead, jemadar, khaddar, kraaled, laggard, laniard, lanyard, laterad, madeira, madrona, mallard, mansard, manward, marauds, matador, mazards, mazzard, monarda, nadiral, pandora, pandura, paraded, parader, parades, parador, parados, paradox, pardahs, placard, podagra, quadrat, radiale, radials, radians, radiant, radiate, radical, radulae, radular, radulas, randans, ravaged, readapt, roadmap, roadway, saggard, sandbar, sardana, sardars, seaward, smaragd, sraddha, sradhas, subadar, sudaria, tabards, tankard, tanyard, tiaraed, vanward, vawards, veranda, warhead, wayward, yardage, yardarm, yardman. | |
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