As a Hindi name
सूरी · noun · masculine
विद्वान् । पंडित् । आचार्य — Śabdasāgara
सूरी · noun · feminine
विदुषी । पंडिता · सूर्य की पत्नी · कुंती — Śabdasāgara
सूरी · sūrī · adj.
Wise, learned; a wise or learned man, &c. ( = sūri) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 698
Cited formation "सूरी" is सूर + -ई: सूर means "the sun", and the suffix -ई forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(14) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "सूरी" is सूर + -ई: सूर means "the sun", and the suffix -ई forms 'belonging to', 'having', 'coming from' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "सूरी" is सूर + -ई: सूर means "the sun", and the suffix -ई forms diminutives (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table
As a Sanskrit word
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M1 · same meaning "sūrī" is the nominative of "sūrin" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "sūrī" is the nominative dual of "sūri" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "sūrī" is the nominative 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.
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Dictionary citations
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.
sūrī (ī), f., TS.
sūrī . See f. of 1. sūra and 1. 2. sūri.
sūrī 1 N. of the wife of the sun. 2 N. of Kuntī, q. v. 3 Black mustard.
sūrin m. a wise or learned man, scholar, L.
sūrin a. (ṇī f.) Wise, learned. — m. A wise or learned man, scholar, pandit.
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.
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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