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▪ I. ‖ sura1 Anglo-Indian.|ˈsura|
Also 7 sure, sury, suri.
[a. Skr. surā spirituous liquor, wine (surākara coco-nut tree). Cf. F. soure (17th c.).]
The fermented sap of various species of palm, as the wild date, the coco-nut, and the palmyra; = toddy n. 1. Also attrib., as sura-house, sura-tree.
1598W. Phillip tr. Linschoten i. lvi. 101/2 The pot in short space is full of water, which they call Sura, & is very pleasant to drinke, like sweet whay. 1609–10W. Finch in Purchas Pilgrims (1625) I. iv. iv. §6 436 A goodly Countrey..abounding with wild Date Trees..whence they draw a liquor called Tarrie or Sure. 1623in Foster Eng. Factories Ind. (1908) II. 314 The elephantes hath destroyed many hundreds of coques and sura trees. 1684tr. Tavernier's Trav. II. 86 (Y.) Nor could they drink either Wine, or Sury, or Strong Water. 1700S. L. tr. Fryke's Voy. E. Ind. iii. 47 This [juice from the Coco-Nut Tree] they call Suri, which is to be sold at the Suri-houses. 1874Treas. Bot. Suppl.
▪ II. sura2|ˈsʊərə|
Also 7 surat, 9 surah, soura.
[a. Arab. sūrah. Cf. F. sura, surate. (The earliest examples represent the word with the def. art. prefixed, assūrah.)]
A chapter or larger section of the Koran.
[1615W. Bedwell Moham. Impost. ii. §45 Teach me.. out of the law of our Prophet, out of euery Assora of the same, some certaine perfections. Ibid. O iij, This booke is deuided into sundry sections or Chapters, which they call Assurats, or Azoara's. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Wks. ii. 89/2 In the third booke of thy Alcaron and in the seuen and thirty Asaria.] 1661Boyle Style Script. (1675) 160 Mahomet himself was so proud of it [sc. the Alkoran], that..he defy's its opposers to equal one surat or section of it. 1850W. Irving Mahomet xxxv. (1853) 176 To promulgate before the multitude of pilgrims..an important sura, or chapter of the Koran, just received from heaven. 1886Conder Syrian Stone-Lore ix. (1896) 337 The earlier Suras are chiefly concerned with the warnings as to the coming day of judgment, and with descriptions of the end of the world.
▪ III. ‖ sura3|ˈsura|
Also 9 soor.
[a. Skr. sura (Hindī sur) god, deity.]
In Hindu demonology, a good angel or genie.
1795T. Maurice Hindostan (1820) I. i. xii. 417 The superior, or northern hemisphere, is the region of delight,..and in it Indra presides with an army of Soors, or good genii. 1806― Ind. Antiq. I. 17 The Indian Soors and Assoors, that is the good and evil Genii. 1834H. Caunter Orient. Ann. ix. 115 It was reported that they had been received into the bosom of Siva, among the suras of the supreme paradise. |