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surma

surma is the alternative form of soorma.

Meaning of soorma

Noun

soorma (uncountable)

  1. A preparation of antimony with which Muslim men historically anointed their eyelids.
    • It is incumbent on the Mussulman that he should stain the crevices of his teeth black with the soorma[…]1867, Transactions: Volume 5, page 178

Proper noun capitalized: Surma

Surma (plural Surmas)

  1. A surname.

Forms of surma

pluralSurmas

Questions about surma

What does surma mean?
Surma means a surname.
What is surma the alternative form of?
Surma is the alternative form of soorma.
What part of speech is surma?
Surma is a proper noun.

Words near surma in the dictionary

  1. surlings
  2. surloin
  3. surloins
  4. Surls
  5. surly
  6. surma
  7. surmai
  8. Surman
  9. Surmans
  10. surmark
  11. surmarks

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: surma (page history and authors); Surma (page history and authors); soorma (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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