tara
tara Lexical Profile
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• interjection
British An informal exclamation used to say goodbye upon parting.
"She waved from the doorstep and called out, "Tara, see you tomorrow!""
• noun
A historically and mythologically significant low limestone hill (the Hill of Tara) located near the River Boyne in County Meath, Ireland, containing ancient earthworks and megalithic monuments that served as the traditional inauguration seat of the High Kings of Ireland.
In Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism, a revered female bodhisattva and meditation deity embodying compassion, spiritual liberation, and enlightened activity.
"The monastery features an intricate gilt-bronze statue of Green Tara seated upon a lotus throne."
A small, spiny leguminous tree of the family Fabaceae (Tara spinosa, formerly Caesalpinia spinosa), native to Peru and the dry inter-Andean valleys of South America, cultivated for its tannin-rich pods and seeds that yield a natural food-thickening gum.
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Word Origin & Etymology
The botanical sense derives from Spanish tara, borrowed from Quechua tara, the indigenous Andean name for the tree. The British informal farewell is an alteration of 'ta-ta', a nursery-talk reduplication first recorded in the 19th century.