سوگ

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See also: شوك

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian swk' (sōg, burn, burning), from Old Persian *θauga(h), from Proto-Iranian *cawkah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćawkas (compare Sanskrit शोक (śoka, burning; grief)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewk-.

Related to سوختن (suxtan, to burn), سرخ (sorx, red), and سوگند (sowgand, oath); and also to Old Armenian սուգ (sug, grief).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? sōg
Dari reading? sōg
Iranian reading? sug
Tajik reading? süg

Noun

سوگ (sug)

  1. grief, sorrow, affliction, mourning
    Synonyms: سوز (suz), غم (ğam), اندوه (anduh), سهم (sahm), دژم (dežam)
    Antonyms: خوش (xoš), خوشحال (xoš-hâl)
    • Ferdowsi, Shahnameh
      بسوگ سیاوش همی جوشد آب
      کند چرخ نفرین بر افراسیاب
      ba sōg-i siyāwaš hamē jōšad āb, kunad čarx-i nafrīn bar afrāsiyāb
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

References

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian سوگ (sōg).

Pronunciation

Noun

سوگ (sogm (Hindi spelling सोग)

  1. sorrow; mourning
    Synonyms: غَم (ġam), رَنْج (ranj)

Declension

    Declension of سوگ
singular plural
direct سوگ (sog) سوگ (sog)
oblique سوگ (sog) سوگوں (sogõ)
vocative سوگ (sog) سوگو (sogo)

Further reading

  • سوگ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • سوگ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “سوگ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “سوگ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “سوگ”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “سوگ”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC