سورج

Punjabi

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit सूर्य (sū́rya).

Noun

سورج • (sūraj) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਸੂਰਜ)

1. (astronomy) sun

Urdu

Etymology

First attested in c. 1435 as Middle Hindi سُورج (sūraj), a semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit सूर्य (sū́rya).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /suː.ɾəd͡ʒ/

• Audio (Pakistan):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -əd͡ʒ

Noun

سُورَج • (sūraj) m (Hindi spelling सूरज)

1. (astronomy) Sun, sun

   Synonyms: آفْتاب (āftāb), خورْشِید (xorśīd), سُورِیَہ (sūriya), شَمْس (śams)

2. sunshine

Declension

Declension of سورج
	singular	plural
direct	سُورَج (sūraj)	سُورَج (sūraj)
oblique	سُورَج (sūraj)	سُورَجوں (sūrajō̃)
vocative	سُورَج (sūraj)	سُورَجو (sūrajō)

Further reading

More information

• “سورج”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “سورج”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “سورج”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “سورج”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “سورج”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC