سو

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See also: سؤ and شو

Arabic

Noun

سَوّ • (saww) m

  1. Alternative form of سَوْء (sawʔ, “badness, evil, corruption”)

Verb

سَوِّ • (sawwi) (form II)

  1. second-person masculine singular active imperative of سَوَّى (sawwā)

Azerbaijani

Noun

سو (su) (countable and uncountable)

  1. Arabic spelling of su (“water”)

Bakhtiari

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Etymology 1

Colloquial form of Arabic صُبْح (ṣubḥ), Persian صبح (sobh).

Noun

سو (sow)

  1. morning
    سو زی بیدار ایبوم
    sow e zi bidar eybuom.
    I'll wake up early in the morning.
  2. tomorrow
    سو ایرم هونه
    sow eirom howne.
    I'll go home tomorrow.

Etymology 2

Colloquial form of سه (soh), ساو (sâv, “firewood, i.e. the usual desert-shrubs”), equivalent to Persian سوخت (sôxt, “combustion material, fuel”).

Noun

سو (sô)

  1. firewood, i.e. the common desert-shrubs, thornbush
  2. a hard-brushed broom

References

Bulgar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *seb-.

Verb

سَو (sev)

  1. (Volga Bulgar) to love, like

Descendants

  • Chuvash: сав (sav)

References

  • Hakimzjanov, Farid Sabirzjanovich (1976) “New Volga Bulgarian Inscriptions”, in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae‎ (in Bulgar), volume 40, number 1, page 174
  • Tekin, Talât (1988) Volga Bulgar kitabeleri ve Volga Bulgarcası [Volga Bulgarian Ephitaphs and Volga Bulgarian Language]‎ (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, →ISBN, pages 190-191

Chagatai

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *sub (“water”).

Noun

سو (su)

  1. water

References

  • András J. E. Bodrogligeti, A Grammar of Chagatay (2001) (su)

Kipchak

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *sub (“water”).

Noun

سو (su) (Mamluk-Kipchak)

  1. water

References

  • Munytu'l-Ghuzāt: a 14th-century Mamluk-Kipchak military treatise
  • Vocabulaire arabe-kiptchak de l'époque de l'État mamelouk

Mazanderani

Etymology 1

Compare Middle Persian swk' (sōg, “side, direction”), Persian سوی (suy).

Noun

سو (so)

  1. ethnicity
  2. breed, type

Etymology 2

Compare Persian ساییدن (sâyidan), سابیدن (sâbidan), سودن (sudan, “to rub, to grind, to sharpen”).

Noun

سو (so)

  1. grinding
    سو سنگ ― so-e seng ― grinding stone
  2. sharpening

Etymology 3

Related to سوسو (winking, burning), and dialectal Persian سو (su, “bright, shimmer, view”).

Noun

سو (su)

  1. igniting
    سو هاکردن ― su hakerden ― to ignite

Persian

Dari سو
Iranian Persian
Tajik сӯ, су

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? sō, sū
Dari reading? sō, sū
Iranian reading? su
Tajik reading? sü, su

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian swk' (sōg, “side, direction”).

Noun

سو • (su)

  1. Alternative form of سوی (suy): direction, side

Etymology 2

From Middle Persian swk' (sōg, “burning, combustion”). Related to سوختن (suxtan, “to burn”). Compare Mazanderani سو (su), سوسو (susu, “bright, illuminating”).

Noun

سو • (su)

  1. (archaic) light, sight, ability to see
  2. (Tehran) shimmer, glitter, sight
  3. (Isfahan) glitter, sight
  4. (Fars) sight, opinion
  5. (Khorasan) sight, glitter, view

Etymology 3

Inherited from Middle Persian swk' (sōg, “profit, advantage”), or alternative form of سود (sud).

Noun

سو • (su, so)

  1. profit
  2. advantage

References

  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “swk'”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 75
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “سو”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
  • Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “سو”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎ (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 340

Salar

Noun

سو (su)

  1. water

References

Sindhi

Etymology

From Sanskrit शत (śata).

Numeral

سو • (sau)

  1. hundred

Urdu

Etymology 1

Perhaps from Sanskrit सह (saha).

Adverb

سو • (so) (Hindi spelling सो)

  1. so, hence
  2. therefore
  3. consequently

References

  • “سو”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “سو”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 388

Etymology 2

Inherited from Sanskrit शत (śata), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćatám, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm. Compare also Persian صد (sad).

Numeral

Urdu numbers (edit)
1,000
[a], [b] ←  90 [a], [b] ←  99 ۱۰۰
100 		101  →  1,000  → 
10
    Cardinal: سَو (sau), صَد (sad), سَین٘کڑا (sa͠ikṛā)
    Ordinal: سَوواں (sauvā̃)
    Multiplier: سَو گُنا (sau gunā)

سو • (sau) (Hindi spelling सौ)

  1. hundred
Synonyms

References

  • “سو”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “sau”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
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