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Arabic
Etymology 1
Noun
سَوّ • (saww) m
- Alternative form of سَوْء (sawʔ, “badness, evil, corruption”)
Etymology 2
Verb
سَوِّ • (sawwi) (form II) /saw.wi/
- second-person masculine singular imperative of سَوَّى (sawwā)
Azerbaijani
Noun
سو (su) (countable and uncountable)
- Arabic spelling of su (“water”)
Bakhtiari
Etymology 1
Colloquial form of Arabic صُبْح (ṣubḥ), Persian صبح (sobh).
Noun
سو (sow)
- morning
سو زی بیدار ایبوم- sow e zi bidar eybuom.
- I'll wake up early in the morning.
- 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)
- firewood, i.e. the common desert-shrubs, thornbush
- a hard-brushed broom
References
Brahui
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Dravidian . Cognate to Tamil தூ (tū), ஊ (ū), Gondi సవి (savi).
Noun
سُو (sū)
- flesh, meat
Further reading
Bulgar
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *seb-.
Verb
سَو (sev)
- (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
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)
- water
References
- András J. E. Bodrogligeti, A Grammar of Chagatay (2001) (su)
Kipchak
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *sub (“water”).
Noun
سو (su) (Mamluk-Kipchak)
- 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)
- ethnicity
- breed, type
Etymology 2
Compare Persian ساییدن (sâyidan), سابیدن (sâbidan), سودن (sudan, “to rub, to grind, to sharpen”).
Noun
سو (so)
- grinding
- سو سنگ ― so-e seng ― grinding stone
- sharpening
Etymology 3
Related to سوسو (winking, burning), and dialectal Persian سو (su, “bright, shimmer, view”).
Noun
سو (su)
- igniting
- سو هاکردن ― su hakerden ― to ignite
Persian
Dari
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سو
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Iranian Persian
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Tajik
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сӯ, су
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Pronunciation
Readings
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Classical reading?
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sō, sū
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Dari reading?
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sō, sū
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Iranian reading?
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su
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Tajik reading?
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sü, su
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Etymology 1
From Middle Persian swk' (sōg, “side, direction”).
Noun
سو • (su)
- 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)
- (archaic) light, sight, ability to see
- (Tehrani) shimmer, glitter, sight
- (Isfahan) glitter, sight
- (Fars) sight, opinion
- (Khorasan) sight, glitter, view
Etymology 3
Inherited from Middle Persian swk' (sōg, “profit, advantage”), or alternative form of سود (sud).
Noun
سو • (su, so)
- profit
- 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)
- water
References
Sindhi
Etymology
From Sanskrit शत (śata).
Numeral
سو • (sau)
- hundred
Urdu
Etymology 1
Perhaps from Sanskrit सह (saha).
Adverb
سو • (so) (Hindi spelling सो)
- so, hence
- therefore
- 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
سو • (sau) (Hindi spelling सौ)
- 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.