Sora, Sōra, Shora: 9 definitions

Introduction
In Hinduism
1. Ayurveda
Biology
Languages
1. Marathi
2. Sanskrit
3. Hindi
4. Kannada
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Introduction:

Sora means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi, Hindi, biology. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

Alternative spellings of this word include Shor.

In Hinduism

Ayurveda (science of life)

Source: Research Gate: On Fish in Manasollasa (c. 1131 AD)

Sora (सोर) refers to a type of fish identified with Galeocerdo tigrinus N.H., as mentioned in the 12th-century Mānasollāsa or Abhilaṣitārthachintāmaṇi, an ancient Sanskrit text describing thirty-five kinds of marine and fresh water fishes.—Someshvardeva described Sora as a marine, scaleless, and obviously a large fish. No meaning can be traced in Sanskrit. In Telugu, sora is used for any shark. Sora is the first name listed by Someshvardeva and was clubbed with other sharks. It must be an impressively large fish commonly seen in Indian seas. Hora (1951) believed that the name sora was used in plural sense for several sharks. We suggest that the name sora could have been used for the largest shark, Galeocerdo tigrinus N.H., found in both west and east coast waters.

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Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.

Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

1) Shora in India is the name of a plant defined with Heteropogon contortus in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Andropogon contortum L. (among others).

2) Shora is also identified with Oplismenus compositus It has the synonym Panicum longeracemosum Steud. (etc.).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Species Plantarum ed. 1
· Anales del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires (1906)
· Natal Plants (1908)
· The Flora of British India (1864)
· Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzenge schichte und Pflanzengeographie (1885)
· Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon (1931)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Shora, for example diet and recipes, pregnancy safety, side effects, extract dosage, health benefits, chemical composition, have a look at these references.

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

sōra (सोर).—f An earthen vessel of a particular shape and size.

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sōrā (सोरा).—m A peg or wooden pin (as driven in to confine or tighten). 2 The ash-hole under the boiler at a sugarwork: also the smoke-vent.

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sōrā (सोरा) [or सोऱ्या, sōṛyā].—m A drilled bowl or vessel used in making kuraḍayā. See suṛyā.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

sōra (सोर).—f An earthen vessel.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Sora (सोर).—A crooked movement.

Derivable forms: soraḥ (सोरः).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Sora (सोर).—= Sanskrit svara (§ 3. 117), voice, sound: cakora-sorāṃ (acc. pl.) karaviṅkanāditāṃ Lalitavistara 214.18 (verse); meter requires long syllable so-; so Lefm. with 2 mss., ms. A °saurāṃ, others °svarāṃ, unmetrical(ly)

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Sora (सोर):—m. a crooked movement, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

1) Śora (शोर) [Also spelled shor]:—(nm) noise; tumult, din, hue and cry; —[gula/śārābā] noise, tumult, din; hue and cry; •[macānā] to blow great guns, to be too boisterous.

2) Śorā (शोरा):—(nm) soda, nitre (sodium nitrate); ~[puśta] insolent, unruly.

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Sora (ಸೊರ):—[noun] = ಸೊರೆ [sore]2.

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Sōr (ಸೋರ್):—[noun] = ಸೋರು [soru]1.

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Sōr (ಸೋರ್):—

1) [noun] the act of oozing, leaking out.

2) [noun] the act or manner of flowing; a flow.

3) [noun] the act of emitting; issuance; a discharge.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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