As a deity name
Name 870 of the Gopal Sahasranāma — Sammohana Tantra, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 741 of the Rama Sahasranāma — Padma Purana / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 64 of the Shiva Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Sage Tandi to Sage Upamanyu
Name 649 of the Surya Sahasranāma — Bhavishya Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
As a Hindi name
सूर्य · noun · masculine
[स्त्री॰ सूर्या, सूर्याणी] · अंतरिक्ष में पृथ्वी, मंगल, शनि आदि ग्रहों के बीच सबसे बड़ा ज्वलंत पिंड जिसकी सब ग्रह परिक्रमा करते हैं । वह बड़ा गोला जिससे पृथ्वी आदि ग्रहों को गरमी और रोशनी मिलती है । सूरज । आफताब · बारह की संख्या — Śabdasāgara
सूर्य · sūrya · s.m.
The sun; (in Hindū poetry) a symbolical expression for the number twelve (in allusion to the sun in the twelve signs of the zodiac) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 698
सूर्य · masculine
Surya, the god of Sun, one of the Adityas and son of Kashyapa and his wife Aditi; Sun; a male given name, Surya, from Sanskrit
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi सूर्य — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit सूर्य (sūrya).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
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.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
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…
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (5)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "sūrya" is the vocative of "sūryā" — 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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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.
the swallow-wort (either Calotropis or Asclepias Gigantea, = arka), L.
N. of the son of Bali, L.
of a Dānava, VahniP.
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.
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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