As a Hindi name
सूर्या · noun · feminine
सूर्य की पत्नी संज्ञा · नवोढ़ा । नवविवाहिता स्त्री · इंद्रवारुणी — Śabdasāgara
सूर्या · sūryā · s.f.
The wife (or the daughter) of the Sun (Sūrya); a new bride — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 698
Cited formation "सूर्या" is सूर्य + -आ: सूर्य means "Surya, the god of Sun, one of the Adityas and son of Kashyapa and his wife Aditi", and the suffix -आ forms abstract, agent, action or instrumental nouns (masc.); also past participles. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(3) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "सूर्या" is सूर्य + -आ: सूर्य means "Surya, the god of Sun, one of the Adityas and son of Kashyapa and his wife Aditi", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
the wife of Sūrya or the Sun (also called Saṃjñā, q.v.)
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M1 · same meaning "sūryā" is the instrumental of "sūrī" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "sūryā" is the instrumental of "sūri" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "sūryā" is the feminine form of "sūrya" — the same word with the feminine ending (instrumental).
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
sūryā (ā), f. the wife of Sūrya or the Sun (also called Saṃjñā, q.v.)
the daughter of Sūrya or the Sun (see RV. i, 116, 17; also described as daughter of Prajāpati or of Savitṛ and wife of the Aśvins, and in other places as married to Soma; in RV. i, 119, 2 she is called Ūrjānī, and in vi, 55, 4, vi, 58, 4 the sister of Pūṣan [q.v.], who is described as loving her, and receiving her as a gift from the gods; accord. to some she represents a weak manifestation of the Sun; Sūryā Sāvitrī is regarded as the authoress of the Sūryā-sūkta, RV. x, 85), RV.; AV.; AitBr.; Kauś.
= vāc, Naigh. i, 11
= sūryā-sūktā (q.v.), ŚāṅkhGṛ.
a new bride
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.
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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