thuraya - thurayya - thoraya - thorayya - soraya - sorayya - suraya - surayya

was bored ... killing-me bored ... out of boredom, i googled the word 'thuraya'... these are what i got:

• meaning - ثريّة, ثريّا,الثريا means "the Pleiades" in Arabic.
  
  
  The Pleiades are a group of seven stars in the constellation Taurus - source.


• name - the name was borrowed into Turkish as a female name, and is in use in both Turkey (as Surayya) and Arab countries (for example Thoraya Obaid)- source.


• proverb - أبعد من الثريا which literally means farther than pleiades - source.


• telecommunications satellite (thuraya 1, thuraya 2 and thuraya 3) of UAE - source.


• satellite-telecommunication UAE-based company - source.


• a town in sudan - but not much info or pictures i could get from the internet about this town. source and source.
  
  

note to ponder: my parents agreed to name me suriya...my father changed his mind on his way to the birth registration office. somehow the distance (as far as the plaeides and as near as sudan...LOL) does get reflected when i am in a crowd or social gathering...am never good at mingling...