Camara

Meaning of Camara

Camara unfolds like a secret courtyard at dawn, its syllables drifting on a breeze that carries both Mediterranean warmth and the golden dust of West African plains. Born of the Mandingo clans, Camara speaks in a soft roll—kah-MAH-rah—echoing the proud villages of Guinea and Mali, where hospitality is as sacred as the baobab’s shadow; yet it also whispers of Iberian voyages and Portuguese verandas, where its cadence—kah-MAH-rah—lingers like the echo of laughter in a vaulted camera room. Unisex and unfettered, the name wraps its future bearer in a tapestry of storied ancestry and sunlit rooms, promising strength as enduring as ancient stone and a heart as open as an Italian piazza at siesta. It is at once a hymn to home and a celebration of wanderlust, offering every child—whether daughter or son—the gift of belonging to two worlds, each as rich and lyrical as the other.

Pronunciation

Portuguese

• Pronunced as kah-MAH-rah (/kɐ.ˈma.ɾɐ/)

African (Mandingo)

• Pronunced as kah-MAH-rah (/kɑːˈmɑːrə/)

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