"Tom Cruise may be an expert on Scientology, but he's not an expert on his infant daughter's name.
Cruise and his fiancée Katie Holmes named the girl Suri, which Cruise's publicist explained means princess in Hebrew and red rose in Persian or Farsi. Wrong on both counts.
"I think it is a mistake," said Prof. Hooshang Amirahmadi, director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University.
"In Farsi, it means red, like a fiery color, but there is no such a thing as a 'suri' that means 'red rose,' I can promise you that," said Amirahmadi. He added that the word also can mean "a party or celebration."
In Israel, there was similar confusion.
"Nobody here has ever really heard of it," an announcer on Israel's Army Radio said yesterday."
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