Ora

Meaning of Ora

Ora, a slender syllable cradled in the Italian tongue where it murmurs both the passage of an hour and the soft invocation of prayer, converses effortlessly with its Hebrew counterpart—“light”—glinting like morning dew on a sakura petal. In a single breath, it traverses the shadowed corridors of a Kyoto temple, each “O” tolling like a bronze bell through mist, before drifting into sunlit Roman courtyards where time itself seems to pause. Its brevity is its wry charm: short enough to slip through the latticework of a bonsai label without demanding a finer brush, yet too luminous to be dismissed as a mere whisper. As if gilded by kintsugi, this name honors broken fragments of moments, weaving them into a radiant promise that endures long after the hush of dawn.

Pronunciation

Italian

  • Pronunced as OH-rah (/ˈoʊrə/)

English

  • Pronunced as OR-uh (/ˈɔrə/)

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