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I would like to know how to pronounance Drisana or should it be pronounance as DRI SHA NA. The name is sanskrit in its origin and is female also from an East Indian Back ground. It is suppose to mean the Daughter of lord Surya. Please help me
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I do not know this name: can you tell me where you got the name or the meaning from? One problem is I cannot figure out the exact pronounciation that you intended (and from your question, it seems you do not know that bit). It would help a lot if I could see this name written in any Indian script.
However, the root dRsh meaning to see, consider, learn etc. is old and has Greek cognates. Words derived from this usually have the sense of seeing (or showing, thus conceptually related to the sun), or comprehension (or teaching). Unfortunately, I do not know if dRshanA is a word, though it sounds familiar. (Maybe a mythology I have forgotten at this moment). If that is a word and the word you are looking for, then the pronounciation would be dRshanA, unaspirated dental d, retroflex vowel R (try saying krrrrrrr, and shorten it), palatal sibilan sh, indeterminate vowel sound a (somewhat like the first sound in about), dental nasal n, and long open A. Given the structure of the word, I would expect a stress on the last syllable. In modern Indian languages, the vowel R has changed into the consonant-vowel combination ri in the north/east and ru in the south/west.
There was a holy man called dRshAna, meaning a spiritual teacher (or light or brightness), who had a patronymic bhArgava from bhRgu, a word that might be related to the root of phlogiston and is the name of a group of people strongly associated in mythology with fire. I do not know of any direct connection to the sun, however. You could form a feminine dRshAnA from that, where the middle A is also long open.
I do not know this name: can you tell me where you got the name or the meaning from? One problem is I cannot figure out the exact pronounciation that you intended (and from your question, it seems you do not know that bit). It would help a lot if I could see this name written in any Indian script.
However, the root dRsh meaning to see, consider, learn etc. is old and has Greek cognates. Words derived from this usually have the sense of seeing (or showing, thus conceptually related to the sun), or comprehension (or teaching). Unfortunately, I do not know if dRshanA is a word, though it sounds familiar. (Maybe a mythology I have forgotten at this moment). If that is a word and the word you are looking for, then the pronounciation would be dRshanA, unaspirated dental d, retroflex vowel R (try saying krrrrrrr, and shorten it), palatal sibilan sh, indeterminate vowel sound a (somewhat like the first sound in about), dental nasal n, and long open A. Given the structure of the word, I would expect a stress on the last syllable. In modern Indian languages, the vowel R has changed into the consonant-vowel combination ri in the north/east and ru in the south/west.
There was a holy man called dRshAna, meaning a spiritual teacher (or light or brightness), who had a patronymic bhArgava from bhRgu, a word that might be related to the root of phlogiston and is the name of a group of people strongly associated in mythology with fire. I do not know of any direct connection to the sun, however. You could form a feminine dRshAnA from that, where the middle A is also long open.
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