"suran" meaning in English

See suran in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: surans [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi सूरन (sūran), ultimately from Sanskrit सुरण (suraṇa). Etymology templates: {{bor+|en|hi|सूरन}} Borrowed from Hindi सूरन (sūran), {{der|en|sa|सुरण}} Sanskrit सुरण (suraṇa) Head templates: {{en-noun}} suran (plural surans)
  1. A tropical plant of the species Amorphophallus paeoniifolius, cultivated for its edible root. Synonyms: elephant foot yam, elephant-foot yam

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hi",
        "3": "सूरन"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Hindi सूरन (sūran)",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sa",
        "3": "सुरण"
      },
      "expansion": "Sanskrit सुरण (suraṇa)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Hindi सूरन (sūran), ultimately from Sanskrit सुरण (suraṇa).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "surans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "suran (plural surans)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 4 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Root vegetables",
          "orig": "en:Root vegetables",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              27,
              32
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1923, Journal of Indian Botany, Volume 2, Indian Botanical Society, page 55:",
          "text": "Almost all of us know this Suran plant and also the value of its under-ground corm as an article of vegetable diet.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A tropical plant of the species Amorphophallus paeoniifolius, cultivated for its edible root."
      ],
      "id": "en-suran-en-noun-DyVjgniI",
      "links": [
        [
          "Amorphophallus paeoniifolius",
          "Amorphophallus paeoniifolius#Translingual"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "elephant foot yam"
        },
        {
          "word": "elephant-foot yam"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "suran"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hi",
        "3": "सूरन"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Hindi सूरन (sūran)",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sa",
        "3": "सुरण"
      },
      "expansion": "Sanskrit सुरण (suraṇa)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Hindi सूरन (sūran), ultimately from Sanskrit सुरण (suraṇa).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "surans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "suran (plural surans)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from Hindi",
        "English terms derived from Hindi",
        "English terms derived from Sanskrit",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 4 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Root vegetables"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              27,
              32
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1923, Journal of Indian Botany, Volume 2, Indian Botanical Society, page 55:",
          "text": "Almost all of us know this Suran plant and also the value of its under-ground corm as an article of vegetable diet.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A tropical plant of the species Amorphophallus paeoniifolius, cultivated for its edible root."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Amorphophallus paeoniifolius",
          "Amorphophallus paeoniifolius#Translingual"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "elephant foot yam"
    },
    {
      "word": "elephant-foot yam"
    }
  ],
  "word": "suran"
}

Download raw JSONL data for suran meaning in English (1.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-01-19 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (d1270d2 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.