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What is Sun called in other languages?

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clarisel is a group administrator clarisel  Pro User  says:

Hey, I would love to get a listing here of the word "sun" and what it is called in other languages.

Sun is Sun (English)
It is Sol (Spanish)
(Don't tell my French teacher, but I can't believe I forgot how it is called in French.)

I know we all know what the sun is, but here is the definition of this powerful star in my Webster's dictionary:
"1. The central star of the solar system, having a mean distance from Earth of 93 million miles or approximate 150 million kilometers, a diameter of 864,000 miles or approximate 1,390,000 kilometers, and a mass about 330,000 times that of Earth. 2. A star that is the center of a planetary system. 3. The radiant energy, esp. heat and visible light, emitted by the sun: SUNSHINE."
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quas says:

French: Soleil
Posted 64 months ago. ( permalink )

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clarisel is a group administrator clarisel  Pro User  says:

Oh right. Thanks.

The word "solar" is from the Latin word "sol, solis," meaning "sun."
Posted 64 months ago. ( permalink )

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aileron says:

Filipino/Tagalog: araw
Posted 64 months ago. ( permalink )

pilot13 [deleted] says:

slovenian: sonce
croatian/serbian: sunce
german: sonne
italian: sole
Posted 64 months ago. ( permalink )

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coda  Pro User  says:

afrikaans: son
pig latin: onsay ;)
Posted 64 months ago. ( permalink )

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♥ Nooda says:

arabic: shams :)
Posted 64 months ago. ( permalink )

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Ms. Annie  Pro User  says:

hindi/urdu: soorajh. (pronounced---" sue-raj") all of them so far, except in tagalog is spelled with a "s"...hmmm...
Posted 64 months ago. ( permalink )

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deVos  Pro User  says:

Dutch: zon
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spuNkymoNky  Pro User  says:

Matahari....

iN botH Malaysian & Indonesian....


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Posted 64 months ago. ( permalink )

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clarisel is a group administrator clarisel  Pro User  says:

I am enjoying learning all the different ways the sun is called. Keep listing. Thanks.
Posted 64 months ago. ( permalink )

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Liljeberg says:

In Swedish it is: sol
Posted 64 months ago. ( permalink )

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clarisel is a group administrator clarisel  Pro User  says:

Just like in Spanish. I didn't know that.
Posted 64 months ago. ( permalink )

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Liljeberg says:

The other forms differ though:
Sun = sol
The sun = solen
Sunny = soligt
Posted 64 months ago. ( permalink )

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... :))
Posted 63 months ago. ( permalink )

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clarisel is a group administrator clarisel  Pro User  says:

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.
Posted 63 months ago. ( permalink )

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Mafue  Pro User  says:

In Japanese the star itself is taiyo and sunshine is nikko. And now I know 12 words in Japanese :)
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Mouse  Pro User  says:

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
Posted 63 months ago. ( permalink )

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thesylvia  Pro User  says:


in Mandarian is "Tai-Yang" (太陽).
Posted 63 months ago. ( permalink )

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Nadar  Pro User  says:

in portuguese is like spanish: SOL.
Posted 63 months ago. ( permalink )

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Agnieszka  Pro User  says:

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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Ti.mo  Pro User  says:

Finnish: Aurinko
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plastic palace alice  Pro User  says:

in yiddish:
Sun - zun di
Sunny - zunik
Sunshine - zun di

in hebrew:

Posted 62 months ago. ( permalink )

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Brenda Lee says:

in korean:
태양 (pronouce as t'ae-yang)
Posted 61 months ago. ( permalink )

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clarisel is a group administrator clarisel  Pro User  says:

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.
Posted 61 months ago. ( permalink )

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uruandimi  Pro User  says:

In Hebrew, two words for the word Sun: 'Khama' and 'Shemesh'
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3cinr3b says:

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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clarisel is a group administrator clarisel  Pro User  says:

RUR. Interesting.
Posted 60 months ago. ( permalink )

Dwight Fry [deleted] says:

In Welsh it is 'heulo' - pronounced in English as 'halo' (there or thereabouts!)
Posted 60 months ago. ( permalink )

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Gauis Caecilius  Pro User  says:

Spanish and Portugese for sun are the same because they derive from the Latin i.e Sol
Posted 59 months ago. ( permalink )

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killthebird  Pro User  says:

in russian - solntsa
Posted 59 months ago. ( permalink )

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renatela  Pro User  says:

hey everyone, in Lithuanian "sun" is "saule", "sunny" - "sauletas", "sunshine" - "saules sviesa" (written without special Lithuanian characters).
Posted 59 months ago. ( permalink )

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RobW_  Pro User  says:

Greek: Ilios (Helios)
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

DElyMyth [deleted] says:

Italian: Sole
(just add an "e" to the spanish and portuguese versions...) :)
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

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Pandiyan  Pro User  says:

In Tamil, many names - kadiravan, aadhavan, arunan, gnayiru ....
In Sanskrit - aditya, surya ....
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

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lotusutol  Pro User  says:

other than tai yang and rur for sun, sunshine in mandarin is 'yang2 guang1' literally
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Kel Patolog says:

In Turkish:

Gunes

But the u and the s are dotted

So you pronounce it "gunesh"

Means: "Spouse of day"
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

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cktse  Pro User  says:

太陽
Same characters for Japanese and Chinese.
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txmx .2 [deleted] says:

in bavarian : sunna
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seawallrunner  Pro User  says:

in Lithuanian: saule (sau-ley)
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bolg  Pro User  says:

in basque language: eguzki ;)
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miumomo  Pro User  says:

in Japanese : "
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

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wuji9981  Pro User  says:

太阳 -- The Sun, simplified Chinese.
阳光 -- Sunshine
日出 -- Sunrise
日落 -- Sunset
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

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fishball says:

Norwegian: Sol
Saami/lappish: Beaivváš/Beaivi
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Danilo Carriglio says:

italian: sole....
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

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武蔵大学サイクリング部  Pro User  says:

in japanese also says:ohisama
Character:お日様
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

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UdayKiran says:

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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_mar says:

In catalan: Sol...
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sino408 says:

In Chinese, the literal translation of the phrase for sun is: extreme brightness. How appropriate :)
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

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Sylpics  Pro User  says:

In hungarian
Sun = Nap
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ai pohaku  Pro User  says:

In Hawaiian...Kala = The Sun
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flappingwings  Pro User  says:

In Burmese, it is called Nay.
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bigbluemeanie  Pro User  says:

In isiXhosa the sun is Langa.
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vice1  Pro User  says:

in Dhivehi (Maldivian) : Iru
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Koninho 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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*Lylith*  Pro User  says:

Breton = heol (not too different from Welsh, which is logical)

also check:
www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=sun
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moogdroog says:

In Georgian: mze
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er1danus  Pro User  says:

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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3cinr3b says:

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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Adge  Pro User  says:

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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waen ♡ says:

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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angel de olavide says:

in euskera-vasque country- the word is: Eguzkia
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Ju-x says:

it's "tai yong" in Cantonese.. same writing as Mandarin 太陽
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rainbow11 :))  Pro User  says:

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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Erwin Kodiat  Pro User  says:

Indonesia: Matahari
Sundanese: Panon poe
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minusbaby  Pro User  says:

In Spanglish it's the sol or el sun.
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Perlette  Pro User  says:

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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Ieneke says:

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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Alexandre Cioccari Rosso says:

In Brazil is called "SOL" (portuguese language)
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naashna  Pro User  says:

In Urdu Sun is called Suraj,Aftab,Khursheed,Shams
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Plavi says:

In Croatia (Local: Hrvatska) we call it "Sunce"
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Khorshid says:

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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mauroPPP  Pro User  says:

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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Juavenita ♥  Pro User  says:

Tamil - Sooriyan
Sinhala - Soorya or Hiru
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John Wallace Photography  Pro User  says:

Gaelic (Irish): An Ghrian
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uberschnapp  Pro User  says:

Ra in the morning
Hathoor at midday
Tum at sunset
Kephra at midnight
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photofixation says:

Suraj in Punjabi...
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pangalactic gargleblaster says:

aditya in sanskrit or some forgotten language(happens to be my name coincidentally ;-)
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Ed from Ohio  Pro User  says:

In Albanian:
Diell (de ELL)
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Nindy2008  Pro User  says:

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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Dagga Billa  Pro User  says:

In icelandic it is:
Sól - very like the other nordic languages.
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HanaS.  Pro User  says:

In Czech - slunce*
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a_s_h says:

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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estenotopo says:

Some places in Mexico Sun is called familiarly " El güero" (pronunced------> "el wero" )
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croydon35 says:

In irish "grian" pronounced gree-an
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casillero  Pro User  says:

In Cockney rhyming slang: "currant bun"!
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sm4rtus  Pro User  says:

Slnko in Slovak
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emrank  Pro User  says:

seem that some one already put in Malay ( for malaysia , indonesia, brunei , even singapore also )

Matahari = mata (eye ) + hari ( day )
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andoru  Pro User  says:

Scorchio!
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Albert!! says:

if you interested. In papiamento its: Solo
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isl_gr  Pro User  says:

Somebody has already mentionned 'Helios' in Greek. I am just giving it in Greek lettering : Ήλιος
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naththu says:

I havent seen anyone mention this..In Maldives the sun is known as 'IRU'
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ppeev says:

In Bulgarian: Слънце (Transcribed 'Slunce')
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Cristian69  Pro User  says:

Romanian:

Soare
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candara says:

Not sure if it's been said but in Welsh it's 'Haul'
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