Zura

Zura is a short form of Zurab, and the diminutive did what diminutives do: it slipped loose and became a name in its own right. Zurab is a Georgian masculine name, well documented in Georgia, and Zura is how friends and family shorten it in daily speech. The origin here is filed simply as other, outside the usual Slavic, Latin, or Greek roots a Polish register expects.

The short meaning attached to it is illustrious, shining, in Polish jasność, światło. Read that as a later gloss, a sense people fastened to the name rather than a literal root. Zurab has been carried by real bearers, including figures in Georgian public and cultural life, so the name arrives with a history rather than a blank.

In Poland it stays rare. A teacher reading a class register may pause at Zura before the pronunciation settles.

That rarity is the point of interest. It reads as foreign, compact, easy to say once heard. Four letters, one bright meaning, and a parent form standing behind it: Zurab.