What is "dora"

fem. proper name, short for Dorothy, Dorothea.

Dora may stand for:

• Dora (given name)

Dora is the pseudonym given by Sigmund Freud to a patient whom he diagnosed with hysteria, and treated for about eleven weeks in 1900. Her most manifest hysterical symptom was aphonia, or loss of voice. The patient's real name was Ida Bauer (1882–1945); her brother Otto Bauer was a leading member of the Austromarxism movement.

Freud published a case study about Dora, Fragments of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (1905 [1901], Standard Edition Vol. 7, pp. 1–122; ), the first, and subsequently the most controversial, of his published case-studies.

Dora (born Dora Maria Reis Dias de Jesus) (born 1966) is a Portuguese singer.

She represented Portugal twice at the Eurovision Song Contest. In 1986 she was 14th with Não sejas mau para mim and two years later she was 18th with Voltarei.

Dora is a female name of Greek origin being a shortened form or derived from Dorothea ( Dorothy), Theodora meaning "Gift" or in its full form "God's Gift", from , doron, "gift" + , theos, "god". The name Dora can also be a short form of Isadora, Isidora and other such compound names. The earliest form of the word doron is the Mycenaean Greek , do-ra, meaning "gifts", written in the Linear B syllabic script, but it is not an anthroponym, it is only the plural of said word; on the other hand, the names Theodora and Amphidora are attested in Linear B as , te-o-do-ra, and , a-pi-do-ra, respectively. The masculine counterpart of the latter, i.e. Amphidoros, is also found: , a-pi-do-ro.

In the Russian language, Dora can be a diminutive of the male first name Agafodor.

Dora is a 1933 British comedy film directed by St. John Legh Clowes. It was designed to humorously highlight some of the bizarre regulations of the Defence of the Realm Act 1914 (known as DORA), drawn up during the First World War, but still in force. In a series of incidents the restrictions of the Act are witnessed by a bemused American tourist.

Dora is an upcoming Indian Tamil-language horror film directed by Dass Ramasamy and produced by Sargunam, starring Nayanthara in the leading role. The film, which was predominantly shot across London, began production in June 2016.