As a deity name
Name 230 of the Surya Sahasranāma — Bhavishya Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
Name 485 of the Surya Sahasranāma — Bhavishya Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
As a Hindi name
सूरि · noun · masculine
यज्ञ करानेवाला । ऋत्विज् · पंडित । विद्वान् । आचार्य । (विशेषकर जैनाचार्यों के नामें के पीछे यह शब्द उपाधिस्वरूप प्रयुक्त होता है) · बृहस्पति का एक नाम — Śabdasāgara
सूरि · sūri · s.m.
The sun; a wise or learned man, a sage, a teacher ( = sūra) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 698
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a learned man, sage (often ifc. after names, esp. as a title given to Jaina teachers), &c.
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (4)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "sūri" is the vocative of "sūrin" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "sūri" is the vocative of "sūrī" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "sūri" is the vocative of "sūrya" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M3 · meaning shifts "sūrya" is derived from "sūr" with the yat suffix — a related word whose meaning shifts, so both meanings are shown.
śūr (also written sūr) cl. 4. Ā. (Dhātup. xxvi, 48) śūryate, to hurt, injure, kill (only in pf. śuśūre, ‘he cut off [the head]’, Śiś. xix, 108); to be or make firm, Dhātup.; ib.; cl. 10. Ā. to be powerful or valiant (in this sense rather Nom. fr. next), Dhātup. xxxv, 48.
1. sūr &c. See √ śūr, p. 1086, col. 1.
sūrya m. the sun or its deity (in the Veda the name Sūrya is generally distinguished from Savitṛ [q.v.], and denotes the most concrete of the solar gods, whose connection with the luminary is always present to the poet's mind ; in Nir. vii, 5 he is regarded as one of the original Vedic triad, his place being in the sky, while that of Agni is on the earth, and that of Indra is in the atmosphere; ten hymns in the RV. are entirely in praise of Sūrya, e.g. i, 50, i, 115 &c., also, AV. xiii, 2; he moves through the sky in a chariot drawn by seven ruddy horses or mares [see saptāśva, harit, harid-aśva]; in the later mythology Sūrya is identified with Savitṛ as one of the 12 Ādityas or emblems of the Sun in the 12 months of the year, and his seven-horsed chariot is said to be driven by Aruṇa or the Dawn as its charioteer, who is represented without legs; the Sun, whether named Sūrya or Vivasvat, has several wives See sūryā below), RV. &c. &c. (cf. IW. 11; 16 &c.; RTL. 341)
a symbolical expression for the number ‘twelve’ (in allusion to the sun in the 12 signs of the zodiac), Jyot.; Hcat.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
1. sūri m. a learned man, sage (often ifc. after names, esp. as a title given to Jaina teachers), Kālid.; VarBṛS. &c.
N. of Bṛhas-pati (the sage among the gods) or the planet Jupiter, VarBṛS.
of Kṛṣṇa, W.
of a poet, Cat.
= yādava and sūrya, L.
sūrin m. a wise or learned man, scholar, L.
sūrin a. (ṇī f.) Wise, learned. — m. A wise or learned man, scholar, pandit.
sūrī (ī), f. N. of Kuntī (as married to the Sun before her marriage with Pāṇḍu), Pāṇ. iv, 1, 48, Vārtt. 9, Pat.
sūrī (ī), f., Uṇ. iv, 64, Sch.
sūrya m. the sun or its deity (in the Veda the name Sūrya is generally distinguished from Savitṛ [q.v.], and denotes the most concrete of the solar gods, whose connection with the luminary is always present to the poet's mind ; in Nir. vii, 5 he is regarded as one of the original Vedic triad, his place being in the sky, while that of Agni is on the earth, and that of Indra is in the atmosphere; ten hymns in the RV. are entirely in praise of Sūrya, e.g. i, 50, i, 115 &c., also, AV. xiii, 2; he moves through the sky in a chariot drawn by seven ruddy horses or mares [see saptāśva, harit, harid-aśva]; in the later mythology Sūrya is identified with Savitṛ as one of the 12 Ādityas or emblems of the Sun in the 12 months of the year, and his seven-horsed chariot is said to be driven by Aruṇa or the Dawn as its charioteer, who is represented without legs; the Sun, whether named Sūrya or Vivasvat, has several wives See sūryā below), RV. &c. &c. (cf. IW. 11; 16 &c.; RTL. 341)
a symbolical expression for the number ‘twelve’ (in allusion to the sun in the 12 signs of the zodiac), Jyot.; Hcat.
śūr (also written sūr) cl. 4. Ā. (Dhātup. xxvi, 48) śūryate, to hurt, injure, kill (only in pf. śuśūre, ‘he cut off [the head]’, Śiś. xix, 108); to be or make firm, Dhātup.; ib.; cl. 10. Ā. to be powerful or valiant (in this sense rather Nom. fr. next), Dhātup. xxxv, 48.
1. sūr &c. See √ śūr, p. 1086, col. 1.
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