See also: سؤ and شو

Arabic edit

Noun edit

سَوّ (sawwm

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

Verb edit

سَوِّ (sawwi) (form II)

  1. second-person masculine singular active imperative of سَوَّى (sawwā)

Azerbaijani edit

Noun edit

سو (su) (countable and uncountable)

  1. Arabic spelling of su (water)

Bakhtiari edit

 
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Etymology 1 edit

Colloquial form of Arabic صُبْح (ṣubḥ), Persian صبح (sobh).

Noun edit

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 edit

Colloquial form of سه (soh), ساو (sâv, firewood, i.e. the usual desert-shrubs), equivalent to Persian سوخت (sôxt, combustion material, fuel).

Noun edit

سو ()

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

References edit

  • Monchi-Zadeh, Davoud (1990) Wörter aus Xurāsān und ihre Herkunft (Acta Iranica; 29)‎[1] (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 162 Nr. 478

Bulgar edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *seb-.

Verb edit

سَو (sev)

  1. (Volga Bulgar) to love, like

Descendants edit

  • Chuvash: сав (sav)

References edit

  • Hakimzjanov, Farid Sabirzjanovich (1976), “New Volga Bulgarian Inscriptions”, in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae[2], volume 40, issue 1, page 174
  • Tekin, Talât (1988) Volga Bulgar kitabeleri ve Volga Bulgarcası [Volga Bulgarian Ephitaphs and Volga Bulgarian Language]‎[3] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, →ISBN, pages 190-191

Chagatai edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *sub (water).

Noun edit

سو (su)

  1. water

References edit

  • András J. E. Bodrogligeti, A Grammar of Chagatay (2001) (su)

Kipchak edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *sub (water).

Noun edit

سو (su) (Mamluk-Kipchak)

  1. water

References edit

  • Munytu'l-Ghuzāt: a 14th-century Mamluk-Kipchak military treatise
  • Vocabulaire arabe-kiptchak de l'époque de l'État mamelouk

Mazanderani edit

Etymology 1 edit

Compare Middle Persian swk' (sōg, side, direction), Persian سوی (suy).

Noun edit

سو (so)

  1. ethnicity
  2. breed, type

Etymology 2 edit

Compare Persian ساییدن (sâyidan), سابیدن (sâbidan), سودن (sudan, to rub, to grind, to sharpen).

Noun edit

سو (so)

  1. grinding
    سو سنگso-e senggrinding stone
  2. sharpening

Etymology 3 edit

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

Noun edit

سو (su)

  1. igniting
    سو هاکردنsu hakerdento ignite

Persian edit

Dari سو
Iranian Persian
Tajik сӯ, су

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? sō, sū
Dari reading? sō, sū
Iranian reading? su
Tajik reading? sü, su

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle Persian swk' (sōg, side, direction).

Noun edit

سو (su)

  1. Alternative form of سوی (suy): direction, side

Etymology 2 edit

From Middle Persian swk' (sōg, burning, combustion). Related to سوختن (suxtan, to burn). Compare Mazanderani سو (su), سوسو (susu, bright, illuminating).

Noun edit

سو (su)

  1. (archaic) light, sight, ability to see
  2. (Tehran) shimmer, glitter, sight
  3. (Isfahan) glitter, sight
  4. (Fars) sight, opinion
  5. (Khorasan) sight, glitter, view

Etymology 3 edit

Inherited from Middle Persian swk' (sōg, profit, advantage), or alternative form of سود (sud).

Noun edit

سو (su, so)

  1. profit
  2. advantage

References edit

  • 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 edit

Noun edit

سو (su)

  1. water

References edit

Sindhi edit

Etymology edit

From Sanskrit शत (śata).

Numeral edit

سو (sau)

  1. hundred

Urdu edit

Etymology 1 edit

Perhaps from Sanskrit सह (saha).

Adverb edit

سو (so) (Hindi spelling सो)

  1. so, hence
  2. therefore
  3. consequently

References edit

  • 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 edit

Inherited from Sanskrit शत (śata), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćatám, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm. Compare also Persian صد (sad).

Numeral edit

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 edit

References edit

  • سو”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • sau”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.