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What the town’s name means needs to be clarified, and there are two theories about it. One derives it from Old Polish, from the process of annealing, or burning, which was the first step toward establishing a permanent settlement. This version pertains to the primitive economy of burning, which was an element of deforestation to prepare the area for payment. According to the topographic description of Upper Silesia from 1865, it derives its name from the Polish name for the crane bird (Polish: żuraw). The passage reads, “In various citations, Sohrau is once called Oraw, then Ora, and then Sora. The name is of Polish origin.” In English, “In various citations, Sohrau is referred to as Oraw, then Ora, and even Sora.”

Liber foundations episcopates Vratislaviensis, written in 1295-1305, mentions the town as Zary civitate – the city of Zary. In addition to the villages founded under the Polish law are polonico, the chronicle also lists the villages that the town absorbed during urbanization. The current districts or parts of the town are called Rogoźna in the fragment “Rogosina in una parte decima solvitur more polonico”, Rowień in the fragment “Rovona [Hs. Ronoua.] decima solvitur more polonico”, Rój as Ray, Brodek in the fragment “Brodek similiter solvitur decima more polonico.”

He mentions the names Ory and Sohrau in his book Krótki rys jeografii Szląska dla nauki początkowej published in Głogówek in 1847. During 1880-1902, the Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland listed the town as Sohrau and Ary in Polish. In 1896, the Upper Silesian writer Konstanty Damrot, in his book about the local names in Upper Silesia, also mentioned the Polish/Upper Silesian dialect name Arry and the German name Sohrau. In addition, he says Latinized names noted in Latin documents, such as Sary and Sari. According to a catalog of coats of arms of German localities published in Frankfurt am Main in 1898, Zar is the Polish name for the place.