Ora

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Name: Ora

Gender: Feminine

Location: Asia

Language: Jewish,Latin

Thematic: Unknown Thematic

Meaning: Light; pray or prayer.

Comments: Ora is the Hebrew word for 'light'. It is a fairly popular Jewish name for girls. It is also, however, a non-Jewish feminine name from the Latin word ora, which means 'pray' as in the Latin phrases 'Ora et labora' ('Pray and work' - the motto of the Order of St Benedict) and 'Ora pro nobis' ('Pray for us'). Although Ora is almost always a girl's name, it has occasionally been given to a boy. In literature a memorable character named Ora is Ora Perkins, Wiley Silenowicz's WASP girlfriend in Harold Brodkey's novel "The Runaway Soul" and his stories "Innocence" (where she is called Orra, a variant of Ora), "Dumbness Is All" and "A Guest in the Universe".