سو

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See also: سؤ and شو

Arabic

Etymology 1

Noun

سَوّ (sawwm

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

Etymology 2

Verb

سَوِّ (sawwi) (form II) /saw.wi/

  1. second-person masculine singular 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 ()

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

References

Brahui

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Dravidian . Cognate to Tamil தூ (), (ū), Gondi సవి (savi).

Noun

سُو ()

  1. flesh, meat

Further reading

Bulgar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *seb-.

Verb

سَو (sev)

  1. (Volga Bulgar) to love, like
    عُلَمَا سَمنَ سَوَان مَسجِد سَمنَ عَمَارَة طَنَان اَكِل خَيرَاتلُ الُوى بَرَكاتلُ مُون سُوَار يَالِ [...] عَلىِ خوَاجَه آولِ آترَج خُواجَه آولِ آبُوبَكَر خُوَاجَه آولِ آلِبْ خُواجَه بَلُوى كُ'Ulamâsemne sevên mescidsemne 'amâret tanân ekil hayrâtlu, elüwi berekâtlu Mûn Suwâr yêli Ali howâce awli Atrac howâce awli Abûbeker howâce awli Alıp howâce belüwi kü.This is the monument of teacher Ali's son teacher Atrac's son teacher Ebubeker's son teacher Alıp, who loves scholars and builds mosques, very beneficent, whose hands are fertile, who is descent from the big Suwâr clan.

Descendants

  • Chuvash: сав (sav)

References

  • Hakimzjanov, Farid Sabirzjanovich (1986) “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
  • Erdal, Marcel (1993) Die Sprache der wolgabolgarischen Inschriften (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 32

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 سنگso-e senggrinding stone
  2. sharpening

Etymology 3

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

Noun

سو (su)

  1. igniting
    سو هاکردنsu hakerdento 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. (Tehrani) 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.