Word
sarah
Phoneticssarah
/ˈsɛɹə/
Definitions
01a person's name
n. a popular name for a girl or woman.
n. a common female given name in English-speaking and many other cultures.
“My friend Sarah is coming over for dinner tonight.”
“Sarah was recently promoted to senior manager due to her exceptional performance over the last fiscal year.”
02biblical figure
n. a woman in the Bible who was the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac.
n. the biblical matriarch, wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac, as described in the Book of Genesis.
“In the Bible story, Sarah was very old when she had her son.”
“The narrative of Sarah in the Old Testament is central to the foundational stories of the Abrahamic religions.”
Etymology
From Biblical Hebrew שָׂרָה (śārâ, “lady, princess”), from the Biblical figure originally named Sarai (שָׂרָי (śārāy, literally “masters, princes”)).
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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