Sumru

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Sumru
Gender Female
Origin
Word/name Arabic
MeaningThe highest part of something; peak; summit
Region of origin Middle East
Other names
Related namesSamru, Sombre, Sommer, Sumroo, Sumr, and Egemen (in Azerbaijani)

Sumru is an Arabic-origin word which refers to the highest part of something; peak or summit. [1] [2]

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Historical use

A leading Arab-origin Christian figure in the 18th and 19th century India was named Sumru. [3] [4] Her husband, Walter Reinhard, who was a German adventurer, was also known as Sumru along with other similar names such as Samru, Sombre, Sommer and Sumroo. [5]

Modern use

Sumru is a given name used for females in Turkey. [1] [6] The version of Sumru in Azerbaijani language is the name of Egemen. [7] The word is also used as a family name in Pakistan. [8]

People with the name include:

Given name

Surname

Variants

The word, sumr, in the colloquial Levantine Arabic is the plural form of the color term, asmar, which means "brown". [9] An Egyptian Shafii scholar, Al Suyuti, used the word with the meaning of "black", another color term: Nuzhat al-Umr fī al-Tafdīl Bayna al-Bīd wa al-Sumr (1931; "The Recreation of Life on Preferentialism between the White and the Black in Complexion" in English). [10] However, in Egyptian Arabic, sumr (ﺳـُﻤﺮ) is the plural form of masculine asmar and feminine samra, and refers to dark skin and brunette. [11] In this sense, the word refers to personal attributes and appearance. [11] [12] In a similar vein, the word is the plural form of masculine asmar and feminine samra in Classical Yemeni Arabic which refers to again personal characteristics, but with a different meaning, "yellowish person". [13] Another Arab scholar Al Dimashqī used the word sumra or dark brown to describe the peoples of Arabia. [14]

Sumr was also employed in Old Norse as an adjective which means "any". [15] [16] It is a variant of the Proto-Germanic suma- which is the original form of the current English determiner and adverb some. [17] In the latter function it refers to "to a certain degree or extent" and in the former function "certain unknown or unspecified". [18] This variant, Sumr (سمر in Urdu), is used as a male given name in Urdu. [19] [20] In addition, it was a Jewish feminine given name in the Middle Ages with the meaning of dark brown. [21]

In object-oriented analysis and design, SUMR which is pronounced "summer" is the abbreviation of Simple Use case Markup-Restructured. [22] It refers to a simple plain text markup language which produces documents that are easily converted into XML, HTML and other formats. [22] The same abbreviation also stands for Satellite User Mapping Register. [23]

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