សោ

See also: សេះ, ស៊ី, សុំ, ស, and សោះ

Khmer edit

Pronunciation edit

Orthographic and Phonemic	សោ so
WT romanisation	sao
(standard) IPA^(key)	/sao/

Etymology 1 edit

From Old Chinese 鎖 (OC *soːlʔ). Cognate with Burmese သော့ (sau.), Khün ᨪᩳ, Lü ᦌᦸ (soa), Shan သေႃး (sáu), Tai Nüa ᥔᥨᥝᥰ (söw), Khamti ꩬူဝ်း, Mon သအ်. Compare Thai โซ่ (sôo, “chain”), Lao ໂສ້ (sō, “chain”), Khün ᩈ᩠ᩅᩫ᩶ (“chain”).

Noun edit

សោ • (sao)

lock

Derived terms edit

កូនសោ (koun sao, “key”)
ជាងសោ (ciəng sao, “locksmith”)

Etymology 2 edit

Borrowed from Teochew 嫂 (so2, “elder sister-in-law”).^[1] Cognate with Thai ซ้อ (sɔ́ɔ).

Noun edit

សោ • (sao)

sister-in-law (older brother's wife)

Etymology 3 edit

Adjective edit

សោ • (sao) (abstract noun ភាពសោ)

to be stupid, ignorant, useless

References edit

^ Joanna Rose McFarland (2021) “Chapter 3: Language Contact and Lexical Changes in Khmer and Teochew in Cambodia and Beyond”, in Chia, Caroline, Hoogervorst, Tom, editors, Sinophone Southeast Asia: Sinitic Voices across the Southern Seas (Chinese Overseas: History, Literature, and Society; 20 [Open Access])‎^[1], Brill, →ISBN, page 102

Pali edit

Alternative forms edit

Alternative forms

sa (Latin script)
𑀲 (Brahmi script)
स (Devanagari script)
স (Bengali script)
ස (Sinhalese script)
သ (Burmese script)
ส or สะ (Thai script)
ᩈ (Tai Tham script)
ສ or ສະ (Lao script)
ស (Khmer script)
𑄥 (Chakma script)

Alternative forms

so (Latin script)
𑀲𑁄 (Brahmi script)
सो (Devanagari script)
সো (Bengali script)
සො (Sinhalese script)
သော or သေႃ (Burmese script)
โส (Thai script)
ᩈᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
ໂສ (Lao script)
𑄥𑄮 (Chakma script)

Pronoun edit

សោ m

Khmer script form of so, which is nominative singular of ត (ta, “he, it”)

Adjective edit

សោ

Khmer script form of so, which is nominative singular masculine of ត (ta, “that”)

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