name
Suhni
SOOH-nee
ˈsuːniːListen
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Suhni
Name meaning and origin
- Origin
- Saraiki (Pakistan)
- Meaning
- a feminine Saraiki name evoking the legendary heroine Sohni of the Sohni-Mahiwal romance, one of the four great tragic love stories of Punjabi and Saraiki literature, in which the potter's daughter Sohni swims the Chenab River each night on an earthen pot to meet her beloved Mahiwal and drowns when her jealous sister-in-law replaces her pot with an unfired one; Sohni-Mahiwal, like Heer-Ranjha, is interpreted in the Sufi tradition as an allegory of the soul's devotion to God, and the name Suhni carries within it this entire narrative and theological inheritance, connecting the bearer to the cultural landscape of the Saraiki heartland along the rivers of the Indus system
- Gender
- female
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