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French: Soleil
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Oh right. Thanks.
The word "solar" is from the Latin word "sol, solis," meaning "sun."
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Filipino/Tagalog: araw
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pilot13 [deleted] says:
slovenian: sonce
croatian/serbian: sunce
german: sonne
italian: sole
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afrikaans: son
pig latin: onsay ;)
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arabic: shams :)
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hindi/urdu: soorajh. (pronounced---" sue-raj") all of them so far, except in tagalog is spelled with a "s"...hmmm...
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Dutch: zon
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Matahari....
iN botH Malaysian & Indonesian....
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I am enjoying learning all the different ways the sun is called. Keep listing. Thanks.
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In Swedish it is: sol
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Just like in Spanish. I didn't know that.
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The other forms differ though:
Sun = sol
The sun = solen
Sunny = soligt
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kurtz [deleted] says:
In spanish jargon, we call it familiarly "Lorenzo" when it's very hot during summer. Don't know the exact reason, though... :))
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Oh really. Interesting. I didn't know that "Lorenzo" was another name in Spanish jargon for a very hot sun during the summer.
Where is "Lorenzo" used? What country? Just wondering.
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In Japanese the star itself is taiyo and sunshine is nikko. And now I know 12 words in Japanese :)
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Māori (Aotearoa New Zealand)
1. Te Rā (The Sun: literal translation fire/heat)
2. Rehua (cooks / ripens tree fruit)
3. Waiora a Tane (sunlight / life-giving force); associated with Tane-mahuta (God of the Forest)
4. Rua o te ra (hole of the sun: point where sun rises or sets
Others:
Arusha (Hindu god of the rising sun)
Aten (the name of the visible solar disc in ancient Egypt)
Matenga (the sun god of Easter Island)
Kind of link:
members.fortunecity.com/volcanopele/patera.htm
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in Mandarian is "Tai-Yang" (太陽).
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in portuguese is like spanish: SOL.
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In Polish it's 'slonce' (actually, it should be spelled 'słońce', but somehow I don't think the diacritic marks will show up properly ;))
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Finnish: Aurinko
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in yiddish:
Sun - zun di
Sunny - zunik
Sunshine - zun di
in hebrew:
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in korean:
태양 (pronouce as t'ae-yang)
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t'ae-yang, zon, and even the Hebrew word for sunny. Interesting.
Thanks for all the contributions. I am really learning new words for sun here.
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In Hebrew, two words for the word Sun: 'Khama' and 'Shemesh'
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other than tai yang, it is also known as R in mandarin (日), not pronounced as roo nor ree, more like da MUR in murder, something like RUR
it also means day =)
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RUR. Interesting.
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Dwight Fry [deleted] says:
In Welsh it is 'heulo' - pronounced in English as 'halo' (there or thereabouts!)
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Spanish and Portugese for sun are the same because they derive from the Latin i.e Sol
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in russian - solntsa
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hey everyone, in Lithuanian "sun" is "saule", "sunny" - "sauletas", "sunshine" - "saules sviesa" (written without special Lithuanian characters).
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Greek: Ilios (Helios)
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DElyMyth [deleted] says:
Italian: Sole
(just add an "e" to the spanish and portuguese versions...) :)
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In Tamil, many names - kadiravan, aadhavan, arunan, gnayiru ....
In Sanskrit - aditya, surya ....
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other than tai yang and rur for sun, sunshine in mandarin is 'yang2 guang1' literally
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In Turkish:
Gunes
But the u and the s are dotted
So you pronounce it "gunesh"
Means: "Spouse of day"
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太陽
Same characters for Japanese and Chinese.
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txmx .2 [deleted] says:
in bavarian : sunna
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in Lithuanian: saule (sau-ley)
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in basque language: eguzki ;)
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in Japanese : "
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太阳 -- The Sun, simplified Chinese.
阳光 -- Sunshine
日出 -- Sunrise
日落 -- Sunset
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Norwegian: Sol
Saami/lappish: Beaivváš/Beaivi
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italian: sole....
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in japanese also says:ohisama
Character:お日様
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Infact there are thousand names to Sun in Samskrita (Sankrit & or Indian Languages)
Following are most commonly used words for Sun - The Lord of Energy and The Planets.
Aditya (son of Aditi- Kashyapa Sage's Wife)
Kaashyapa (Son of Kashyapa Sage - Famous seven Sages of hindu mythology)
Udaya (One who raises)
Bhanu Prakasha (one who is brigtest in day sky)
Surya (sun-synonym)
Ravi (sun-synonym)
Teja (one who is bright/has bright aroura)
Divakara
Aruna
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In catalan: Sol...
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In Chinese, the literal translation of the phrase for sun is: extreme brightness. How appropriate :)
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In hungarian
Sun = Nap
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In Hawaiian...Kala = The Sun
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In Burmese, it is called Nay.
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In isiXhosa the sun is Langa.
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in Dhivehi (Maldivian) : Iru
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Koninho [deleted] says:
In Thai :
เเดด (Dèèt) (speaking about weather)
and
พระอาทิต (Phra-a-thit) speaking about the planet.
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Treshold -LatinHeart [deleted] says:
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Breton = heol (not too different from Welsh, which is logical)
also check:
www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=sun
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In Georgian: mze
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In Ojibwa (aka Chippewa), a North American native Algonquian dialect, it is Giiziss (pronounced Ghee-ziss). Related words are Giizhiik, as in presence of light. The moon is Tibigiiziss, The "i's" in "tibi" are short.
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oh n another version in Bahasa Melayu/Malaysia or Bahasa Indonesia
suria
the more sophisticated version of 'matahari' if i may add =p
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alongside [deleted] says:
In Latvian it's saule.
(the same as in Lithuanian, didn't know till now:)
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There's a similarity in all the names. There are a few words that are similar to almost all languages... sun, finger (digit), and I think water. The theory is that almost all languages stemmed from one and that one had words for those items.
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In Welsh it is Haul, similar to Nyx's breton- Heol.
Dwight's -'heulo', is more like shine as in sun shine or used like- 'sunning' as in sun tan!
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in euskera-vasque country- the word is: Eguzkia
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it's "tai yong" in Cantonese.. same writing as Mandarin 太陽
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in german = Sonne
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:-))<--< [deleted] says:
Amharich (Ethopia) = Tsehay
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Sterretje [deleted] says:
in Gaelic (old Irish): grian
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Indonesia: Matahari
Sundanese: Panon poe
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In Spanglish it's the sol or el sun.
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Neapolitan language... (Italy)
o' sol...:))
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Glauka[deleted] [deleted] says:
Answering to someone who asked where the sun is called Lorenzo: in Spain we call it this way when it's very very hot, remembering to San Lorenzo, a saint who died burned in year 258, I think...
There are other anecdotes related to San Lorenzo. Very celebrated in Spain is the one that we called "Lágrimas de San Lorenzo", in english "Tears of San Lorenzo". A phenomenon that takes place between august 10th and 14th. It is a Star rain coming from the dismemberment of the comet Swift - Tuttle, in the constellation of Perseo. For that reason, we also call it "Perseidas".
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In dutch it's 'de zon', but you already knew. My mother also calls her 'Laura'. Just like the 'Lorenzo' in Italy! :-) But not only when she's shining bright, but always: 'Laura, de zon'.
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Glauka[deleted] [deleted] says:
Lorenzo is in Spain, leneke, not in Italy ;)
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In Brazil is called "SOL" (portuguese language)
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In Urdu Sun is called Suraj,Aftab,Khursheed,Shams
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In Croatia (Local: Hrvatska) we call it "Sunce"
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In Persian it is "khorshid", which is also my nickname!
خورشيد
When we refer to the sun as a star, we call it "Khorshid", but when we refer to the sun as the source of the light in the sky, we call it "Aaftaab"
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the indo-european root for sun was "sawel-"
from variant forms "swen-", "sun-" we have many German languages derivatives
from variant form "sawol-" we have latin "sol" and its derivatives
the greek "helios" appears to derive from the suffixed form "sawel-yo-"
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Tamil - Sooriyan
Sinhala - Soorya or Hiru
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Gaelic (Irish): An Ghrian
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Ra in the morning
Hathoor at midday
Tum at sunset
Kephra at midnight
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Suraj in Punjabi...
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aditya in sanskrit or some forgotten language(happens to be my name coincidentally ;-)
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In Albanian:
Diell (de ELL)
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Filipinos in the Philippines have hundreds of dialects. Aside from the national language (Filipino/Tagalog), the next major dialects are: Ilocano - aldaw
Bisaya - adlaw
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In icelandic it is:
Sól - very like the other nordic languages.
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In Czech - slunce*
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Like someone said before Sun has a thousand names in Sanskrit, Most common are 12 which we use for our daily prayers to Sun
Mitra
soorya
Ravi
bhanu
khaga
pooshNa
Hiranyagarbh
marich
aditya
savitru
arka
bhaskar
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Some places in Mexico Sun is called familiarly " El güero" (pronunced------> "el wero" )
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In irish "grian" pronounced gree-an
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In Cockney rhyming slang: "currant bun"!
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Slnko in Slovak
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seem that some one already put in Malay ( for malaysia , indonesia, brunei , even singapore also )
Matahari = mata (eye ) + hari ( day )
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Scorchio!
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if you interested. In papiamento its: Solo
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Somebody has already mentionned 'Helios' in Greek. I am just giving it in Greek lettering : Ήλιος
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I havent seen anyone mention this..In Maldives the sun is known as 'IRU'
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In Bulgarian: Слънце (Transcribed 'Slunce')
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Romanian:
Soare
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Jorja Clare [deleted] says:
Not sure if it's been said but in Welsh it's 'Haul'
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