Sura

Sura (plural Suras)

1. A surname.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Sura is the 21439^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1219 individuals. Sura is most common among White (52.34%), Hispanic/Latino (28.06%), and Asian/Pacific Islander (17.97%) individuals.

• asur, -saur, USRA, 'saur, USAR, Ruas, URAs, saur

Sura

1. Romanization of ꦱꦸꦫ

From sūra (“calf of the leg”).

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsuː.ra/,

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsu.ra/,

Sūra m sg (genitive Sūrae); first declension

1. a cognomen used by the gens Licinia, Marcia, and others

   Lucius Licinius Sura

    

First-declension noun, singular only.

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsu.ra/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsu.ra/,

Sura m sg (genitive Surae); first declension

1. A tributary river of the Moselle, now the Sûre

First-declension noun, singular only.

• “Sura3”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Sura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Sura”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• George Davis Chase, "Origin of Roman Praenomina", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 8, 1897, p. 109.

From Javanese ꦱꦸꦫ (sura) from Arabic عَاشُورَاء (ʕāšūrāʔ, “tenth, tenth day, notably the tenth day of the month Muharram”).

Sura

1. Muharram (the first month of the Islamic calendar)
2. Sura (the first month of the Javanese calendar)

• Muharom

Coordinate terms: Sura, Sapar, Mulud, Silih Mulud, Jumadilawal, Jumadilakhir, Rojab, Rewah, Puasa, Sawal, Hapit, Rayagung