سوا
Bakhtiari edit
Etymology edit
Likely from Arabic صبح. Cognate with Southwestern Fars سوا.
Noun edit
سوا (sova)
- tomorrow
- سوا ایرم هونه
- sova eirom howne.
- Tomorrow I'll go home.
North Levantine Arabic edit
Etymology edit
From Arabic سواء. Compare also Arabic سويا.
Adverb edit
سوا • (sawa)
- (particularly Lebanon) together
- Synonym: مَعْ بَعْض (maʕ baʕḍ)
- ما فيكن تقعدو سوا بغرفة من دون ما تصَرّخو؟
- mā fīkun ti’‘dū sawā b-ḡirfe min dūn mā tṣarrḵū?
- Are you not able to be in a room together without screaming?
- (now uncommon) completely; wholly
Usage notes edit
- Sense 2 is preserved in the set expression كلُّو سَوَا (kullo sawa, “all of it”) and other inflected forms.
Ottoman Turkish edit
Alternative forms edit
- سوكه (söke)
Etymology edit
According to Nishanyan, from Proto-Turkic *söbek (“mill or door pin”), from the same root of سوبو (söbü, “tapering, conical”).
Noun edit
سوا • (sıva, süva)
- doorframe, the frame into which a door is fitted
- Synonym: چرچوه (çerçeve)
- window frame, the framework around a window
Descendants edit
- Turkish: söve
- → Armenian: սօ̈վա̈ (sövä) — Akhaltsikhe
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “söve1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4319
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سوكه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 702
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Postis”, 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[2], Vienna, column 1325
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سوا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 2693
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “söve”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سوا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1085
South Levantine Arabic edit
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Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
سوا • (sawa)
Southwestern Fars edit
Alternative forms edit
سبا (sabâ) صبا (sabâ)
Noun edit
سوا (savâ)
- (Masarm, Deh Sarv, Kuzarg) tomorrow