Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“spirituous, liquor”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
As a deity name
Name 245 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
As a Hindi name
Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“spirituous, liquor”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
सौरी · noun · feminine
वह कोठरी या कमरा जिसमें स्त्री बच्चा जने । सूतिकागार । जापा । जच्चाखाना — Śabdasāgara
सौरी · noun · feminine
सूर्य की पत्नी · सूर्य की पुत्री और कुरु की माता तपती । तापती । वैवस्वती · गाय । गौ — Śabdasāgara
सौरी · saurī · s.f.
A kind of fish; a species of carp — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 698
सौरी · saurī · s.f.
A lying-in chamber — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 698
Cited formation "सौरी" is सौर + -ई: सौर means "solar, pertaining to 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 "सौरी" is सौर + -ई: सौर means "solar, pertaining to 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 "सौरी" is सौर + -ई: सौर means "solar, pertaining to 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
Meaning
the wife of the Sun
Scripturally attested Verified derivationWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "saurī" is the nominative dual of "sauri" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "saurī" is the feminine form of "saura" — the same word with the feminine ending, recorded by the dictionary's own gender marker on that entry.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
saurī (ī), f. the wife of the Sun, W.
patr. of Tapatī (the mother of Kuru; also called vaivasvatī), MBh.
a cow, Hcat.
Polanisia Icosandra, L.
saurī f. See above under 2. saura.
sauri m. N. of the planet Saturn (as son of the Sun), VarBṛS.
a patr. Saṃskārak.
1. saura mfn. (fr. surā) consisting of spirituous liquor, ŚrS.
2. saura mf(ī)n. (fr. 1. sūra and sūrya; in some meanings perhaps fr. sura) relating or belonging or sacred to or coming from &c. the sun or the god Sūrya, solar, MaitrUp.; MBh. &c.
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