[mahr-uh] 
| 1. | Hindu Mythology. the god of death, sometimes seen as one aspect of a god whose other aspect is Kama, or erotic desire. |
| 2. | Buddhism. Satan, who tried to seduce the Buddha at the time of his Enlightenment. |
| a burrowing, gray, long-eared and long-legged cavy of the genus Dolichotis, native to South America. |
| ma·ra (mə-rä') n. Any of various long-eared and long-legged cavies of the genus Dolichotis, inhabiting the scrub desert and grasslands of central and southern Argentina. Also called Patagonian hare. [American Spanish mará, perhaps of Araucanian origin.] |
Mara
bitter; sad, a symbolical name which Naomi gave to herself because of her misfortunes (Ruth 1:20).
mara
either of two South American rodents in the genus Dolichotis of the cavy family, the Patagonian mara (D. patagonum) or the Chacoan mara (D. salinicola).
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