Sarah written in the Greek script, with pronunciation, a letter-by-letter breakdown, and the story behind the name.
Each Greek letter below maps to part of the name.
Sarah is a Hebrew name (שָׂרָה) meaning "princess" or "noblewoman." In the Bible, Sarah is the wife of Abraham, which carried the name into Greek, Latin, and nearly every European language — including Greek, where the biblical figure is called Σάρρα.
Modern Greek writes the name Σάρα, but in the Greek Bible (the Septuagint) it appears as Σάρρα with a double rho — a spelling you will still see in religious contexts. The final h of the English spelling is silent, and Greek simply does not write it.
Sarah is written Σάρα: sigma (Σ), alpha with a stress mark (ά), rho (ρ), and alpha (α). The English final h is silent, so Greek does not transliterate it — Sarah and Sara come out identically as Σάρα.
The Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible — rendered the Hebrew שָׂרָה with a double rho, giving Σάρρα. That remains the form used in Greek Orthodox tradition, while Σάρα is the everyday modern spelling for people named Sarah today.
SAH-rah, with stress on the first syllable as the tonos over the ά shows. The Greek rho is lightly tapped or rolled, closer to a Spanish r than an English one, and both vowels are clean open ah sounds.