ثریا

See also: ثريا

Munji

Noun

ثریا (ŧaryā)

  1. phone

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ثُرَيَّا (ṯurayyā).

Proper noun

ثریا • (Süreyya)

  1. (astronomy) Pleiades
  2. a unisex given name from Arabic

Descendants

  • Turkish: Süreyya

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ثُرَيَّا (ṯurayyā).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? surayyā
Dari reading? surayyā
Iranian reading? sorayyâ
Tajik reading? surayyo

Proper noun

ثریا • (surayyā / sorayyâ) (Tajik spelling Сурайё)

  1. (astronomy) Pleiades
  2. a female given name, Surayya, Sorayya, Soraya, Surayyo, or Suraya, from Arabic

Descendants

  • → Chagatai:
    • Uyghur: سۇرەييا (sureyya)
    • Uzbek: Surayyo
  • → Hindustani:
    Hindi: सुरैया (suraiyā)
    Urdu: ثُرَیّا (suraiyā)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian ثُرَیّا, from Arabic ثُرَيَّا (ṯurayyā). First attested in c. 1649 as Middle Hindi ثریا (s̱rya /⁠surayyā⁠/).[1]

Pronunciation

Proper noun

ثُرَیَّا • (surayyā) f (Hindi spelling सुरैया or सुरय्या)

  1. (astronomy) Pleiades
  2. a female given name, Surayya, from Arabic

Noun

ثُرَیَّا • (surayyā) f (Hindi spelling सुरैया or सुरय्या)

  1. (figuratively) the skies (as opposed to the ground)

References

  1. ^ “ثریا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
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