thumb|19th century depiction of a Sikh woman (a Kaur) from a Haveli Kaur ( [Gurmukhi] / [Shahmukhi]; ), sometimes spelled as Kour, is a surname or a part of a personal name primarily used by the Sikh and some Hindu women of the Punjab region. It is also sometimes translated as 'lioness', not because this meaning is etymologically derived from the name, but as a parallel to the Sikh male name Singh, which means 'lion'.
thumb|19th century depiction of a Sikh woman (a Kaur) from a Haveli Kaur ( [Gurmukhi] / [Shahmukhi]; ), sometimes spelled as Kour, is a surname or a part of a personal name primarily used by the Sikh and some Hindu women of the Punjab region. It is also sometimes translated as 'lioness', not because this meaning is etymologically derived from the name, but as a parallel to the Sikh male name Singh, which means 'lion'.
==Etymology== The Dictionary of American Family Names states that the name is etymologically derived from the Sanskrit word Kumari meaning a girl or daughter of a king which was later abridged to Kuar and became Kaur by metathesis. Other scholars, however, assert that Kaur is a diminutive of and the Punjabi equivalent of Kanwar/Kunwar – a Rajput title meaning prince or bachelor that was used for people of status, and eventually became a common Rajput female designation. W.H. McLeod has also written that most regard the name as the female form of Kumar which is Kumari.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).