سوط

• IPA^(key): /sawtˤ/

Apparently via Aramaic שׁוֹטָא (šōṭā) / ܫܱܘܛܳܐ (šawṭā, “whip”) from Old Georgian შოლტი (šolṭi, “whip”).

سَوْط • (sawṭ) m (plural أَسْوَاط (ʔaswāṭ) or سِيَاط (siyāṭ))

1. verbal noun of سَاطَ (sāṭa)
2. scourge, switch, whip
3. (figuratively) any punishment
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 89:13:

     فَصَبَّ عَلَيْهِمْ رَبُّكَ سَوْطَ عَذَابٍ

     faṣabba ʕalayhim rabbuka sawṭa ʕaḏābin

     Therefore thy Lord poured on them the scourge of punishment.

4. (biology) flagellum
5. (astronomy) an astronomical measure of approximately 4.5 degrees

• سَاطَ (sāṭa)
• سَيَّطَ (sayyaṭa), سَوَّطَ (sawwaṭa)
• تَسَيَّطَ (tasayyaṭa), تَسَوَّطَ (tasawwaṭa)
• مِسْوَط (miswaṭ)
• مِسْوَاط (miswāṭ)

A native root. Some occurrences of Biblical Hebrew שׁוֹט (šōṭ) are understood as “spate”, whose sense seems to have influenced the Arabic sense of “a punishment” otherwise belonging to the “whip” noun, as in the Qurʾān place above God صَبَّ (ṣabba) it, that is “poured” or “dispensed“ punishment like liquid, although Jakob Barth considered all the Arabic words and senses on this page natively developed from سَطَا (saṭā, “to throw oneself upon someone or something with impetuosity; to be restive; to march with large steps; to be found in abundance (said of water)”).

سَوْط • (sawṭ) m

1. water that bides in a pool or puddle or the place where there is such water
2. someone's deal, a designated deal

سَوَّطَ • (sawwaṭa) II (non-past يُسَوِّطُ (yusawwiṭu), verbal noun تَسْوِيط (taswīṭ))

1. to commix the liquids by stirring

• اِسْتَوَطَ (istawaṭa, “to be or become mixed or stirred”)
• سَوِيط (sawīṭ, “stirred”)
• سَوَيْطَاء (sawayṭāʔ, “a soup with much onions and chickpeas”)
• مِسْوَط (miswaṭ, “an implement to mix”)
• مِسْوَاط (miswāṭ, “an implement to mix”)

• Barth, Jakob (1893) Etymologische Studien zum semitischen insbesondere zum hebräischen Lexicon (in German), Berlin: H. Itzkowski, page 14
• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 672
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “سوط”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 375b–376a
• Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “سوط”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1466–1467.
• Марр, Н. Я. (1910) “Надпись Епифания, католикоса Грузии (Из раскопок в Ани 1910 г.) ”, in Известия Императорской Академии наук‎ (in Russian), volume XIV, Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 1436 of 1433–1442

From Arabic سَوْط (sawṭ).

• IPA^(key): /soːtˤ/,

سوط • (sōṭ) m (plural أسواط (ʔaswāṭ))

1. whip

Borrowed from Arabic سَوْط (sawṭ, “whip, scourge”), perhaps from Old Georgian შოლტი (šolṭi, “whip”), via Aramaic שׁוֹטָא (šōṭā, “whip”).

سوط • (savt) (definite accusative سوطی (savtı), plural سیاط (siyât) or اسواط (esvât))

1. whip, lash, a pliant, flexible instrument used to direct and herd animals, or to strike a person as a punishment

   Synonyms: تازیانه (taziyane), قامچی (kamçı), قرباچ (kırbaç)

2. riding crop, horsewhip, quirt, any short type of whip without a lash used in horseriding to goad or direct a horse

   Synonym: قرباچ (kırbaç)

3. lash, a stroke with a whip, scourge, switch, or any other pliant and tough weapon, often given as a punishment

   Synonym: جلده (celde)

• Turkish: savt

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “savt2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4095
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “savt”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1106
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Flagellum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 587
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سوط”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2711
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سوط”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1092