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April 20, 2006

The name 'Suri'

With lots of news regarding Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes baby girl Suri, it now turns out that the name Suri does not after all mean “Princess” in Hebrew.

According to Hebrew linguists, Suri has only two meanings - one is a person from Syria and the other "go away" when addressed to a female. Hebrew expert Jonathan Went says, "I think it's fair to say they have made a mistake here. There are variations of the way the Hebrew name for princess is spelt but I have never seen it this way." Suri can also be translated into a Hindi boy's name, and it also means "pointy nose" in some Indian dialects and "pickpocket" in Japanese.

Does anyone know what it means in other languages? Kinda amusing isn't it.

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