Definition of "Amara"

Amara

proper noun
1. A female given name originating as a coinage, of modern usage taken from fantasy fiction; explained, for example, as a Sanskrit word for "eternal".
  Quotations
  "Amara? That's a beautiful name." He smiled, teasing. "And she was a wife of Pharaoh Mentuhotep the First. - - - Amara, Amara, Amara. A guy can fall in love with a name like that.
  2002, Richard Laymon, To Wake the Dead, Leisure Books, published 2004, page 11
2. A port on the River Tigris in Iraq.