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Surma may refer to:
- Surma (Finnish mythology) — a beast which guards the gates of the Underworld;
- Surma people — a pastoralist ethnic group in western Ethiopia;
- Kohl (cosmetics) — another name for the eyelash dye and eye cosmetic;
- Surma River — a river in Sylhet, Bangladesh
- Сарма — the Bulgarian name for a dish of grape, cabbage or chard leaves rolled around a filling usually based on minced meat.
- Сърма — the Bulgarian name for golden threads
- Сурьма - the Russian name for Antimony
- Surma, Nepal
- Surma, Tripura - an assembly constituency under Tripura East (Lok Sabha constituency), India
- Surma-horn, a Ukrainian musical instrument.
Surma is a character in the Finnish folklore of Kalevala. Surma is a terrible beast, embodies sudden, violent death and guards the gates of the Tuonela to prevent escape. It is often described as being a large dog with a snake-tail and can turn people into stone (with a stare). An often-used Finnish metaphor is surman suuhun "into Surma's mouth", as if the victim was mauled to death by Surma.
Surma also means kill, or specifically a kill and the Finnish verb 'surmata', to kill or to slay, is derived from it.
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Surma is one of the woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. It is named for the Surma people, whose homeland lies in this woreda. Part of the Bench Maji Zone, Surma is bordered on the south and west by South Sudan, on the northwest by the Gambela Region, on the north by Bero, and on the east by Maji. A portion of the Omo National Park extends into the southern part of this woreda.
Usage examples of "surma".
These items assume now a dark meaning to us that they did not have for Richard Surma back then, and yet he kept the items he found in their trash.
Juliet took out a small embroidered pouch of surma and deftly applied it, blinking down on the spreading stick as she drew the cosmetic along her lids.
Though his lashes and brows were several shades darker than his hair, they were still light by Asian standards, so after applying the surma to his eyelids, Ross carefully rubbed a little into his eyebrows.
Outlined in dark surma, her eyes shone like silver as she gave a slow, provocative smile.
It occupies the upper basin of the Surma or Barak river, and is bounded on three sides by lofty hills.
The Surma is the chief river, and its principal tributaries from the north are the Jiri and Jatinga, and from the south the Sonai and Daleswari.
So the children of the Surma had played and sang for countless generations in this sere mountain region of southwest Ethiopia.
The Surma tolerated her strange ways because she did not interfere with them, and she had proved that she was not in fact sent by their age-old enemies, the Bumi.
She was, to the Surma, a child walking around in a grown body, for she did not display the ritual markings of a responsible adult, but they dismissed her strangeness with a kind of humorous tolerance.
ON button, then settled back to wait for the Surma to emerge, like shy ghosts, from the shelter of the brush.
When he and his wife heard Peter Jennings report that some of the terrorists had been in Florida and had taken flight lessons, intuition made all the connections, and the Surmas called the police.