U.S. actor Tom Cruise attends the world premiere of his film 'Mission Impossible III', in Rome Monday, April 24, 2006. Suri, the name chosen by Hollywood couple Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes for their newborn daughter, is raising more than its share of interest in Israel. It means "get out of here" in the local language, Hebrew. "I really don't know what they were thinking when they chose this name. It's a term that denotes expulsion, like 'Get out of here'," said Gideon Goldenberg, a linguistics professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. "It's pretty blunt." Yaron London, a cultural commentator for Israel's Channel 10 television, had this rhetorical question for Suri's proud parents: "Why didn't you just go back to your ancestors' language, and call the kid 'Scram Cruise'?" A Cruise family spokesman said last week that Suri has its origins in ancient Hebrew, as a variant on Sarah, the biblical matriarch. But that pronunciation is all but unknown in Israel. Of course, there are exceptions. Jerusalem journalist Surie Ackerman said her name was a formalized version of a nickname given by ultra-Orthodox Jews in her native United States. "It sounds strange to me that a non-Jewish baby should be called Suri," Ackerman said. Cruise is one of the devotees of Scientology. "But there are plenty of strange names in the world." And there are plenty of alternative meanings for Suri. It's also a Nubian tribe, the word for "rose" in Persian, "sun" in Sanskrit and a term for a form of Alpaca's wool. (Agencies)

好莱坞明星情侣汤姆·克鲁斯和凯蒂·霍姆斯给他们刚出生的女儿取名为苏里，这个名字引起了以色列人极大的兴趣。 Suri一词在以色列本地的希伯来语中意思是“滚开”。 耶路撒冷希伯来大学的语言学教授基甸·高登伯格说：“我真不明白他们选这个名字时是怎么想的。这个词的意思是“开除”，相当于‘滚开’，是个很粗鲁的说法。" 雅伦·朗顿是以色列电视台10频道的文化评论员，他在节目中反问苏里的明星爸妈：“你们为什么不直接用自己的语言，给孩子取名叫‘Scram Cruise’（滚开克鲁斯）？” 上周，克鲁斯家的一位发言人说，Suri源于古希伯来语，是Sarah的变体，而Sarah则是《圣经》里的公主。但是Suri一词的发音在以色列几乎不为人知。 当然也有例外。耶路撒冷新闻记者苏里·艾克曼说，她的名字就是一个正式的昵称，是由美国当地的超正统派犹太教徒起的。 艾克曼说：“一个非犹太教徒的孩子被取名为‘苏里’，我感到很奇怪。”克鲁斯是一名科学教派的信徒。 “但是世界上有很多奇怪的名字。” Suri一词有很多种解释。 Suri还是努比亚一个部落的名称，在波斯语中代表“玫瑰”，在梵语中指代“太阳”，此外，有一种“秘鲁羊驼毛”也可以用这个词表示。 (中国日报网站编译)