Usually means: Spiritual demon causing sleep paralysis.
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  1. Mara, mara: Merriam-Webster
  2. mara: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mara: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mara: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Mara, mara: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mara, Mara, Mara, mara: Wordnik
  7. Mara, mara: Wiktionary
  8. Mara: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Mara, mara: Dictionary.com
  10. MARA (anti-tank weapon), MARA, Mara (Doctor Who), Mara (Hindu goddess), Mara (album), Mara (demon), Mara (disambiguation), Mara (film), Mara (folklore), Mara (gang), Mara (mammal), Mara (name), Mara (torrent), Mara: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Mara: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. mara: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. mara: Rhymezone
  14. Mara: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. mara: FreeDictionary.org
  16. mara: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. mara: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. Mara: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. Mara: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
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  2. MARA: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mara: Easton Bible
  2. Mara: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  3. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mara, mara: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. M.A.R.A: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mara: Glossary of Sanskrit Terms in Integral Yoga Literature

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Mara)

noun:  (European folklore) A nightmare; a spectre or wraith-like creature in Germanic and particularly Scandinavian folklore; a female demon who torments people in sleep by crouching on their chests or stomachs, or by causing terrifying visions.
noun:  (Buddhism) A type of god that prevents accomplishment or success.
noun:  (Buddhism) Any malicious or evil spirit.
noun:  Any caviid rodent of the genera Dolichotis and Pediolagus, common in the Patagonian steppes of Argentina.
noun:  A Maran Australian Aboriginal prefixing language spoken in southeastern Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.
noun:  (rare) A female given name from Hebrew.
noun:  A surname from Irish.
noun:  (Hinduism) The Hindu god of death; opposite of Kama.
noun:  (Buddhism) The Buddhist archangel of evil or demon
noun:  (Slavic mythology) The Slavic goddess of winter and death; Marena or Maržanna.
noun:  A member of a predominantly agricultural tribe of southern Assam and western Burma.
noun:  A river in Tanzania and Kenya.

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