Names

Sarah

Abraham's wife was renamed from Sarai to Sarah, 'princess'. Latin Sara carried the name through the Middle Ages, and the Geneva Bible of 1560 gave English the Hebrew-style final -h. It lives on as Arabic Sāra, Yiddish Sore, Ethiopian Sara, Armenian Saṙa, Russian Sarra, Chinese Sālā and Hawaiian Kala.

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From Late Latin to Hungarian

From English to Hawaiian

From English to Māori

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From Late Latin to Finnish

From Biblical Hebrew to Mandarin Chinese

550 BCEBiblical Hebrew

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Sarah

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