سوجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

According to Starostin, from Proto-Turkic *sǖči- (“sweet”). Also compare the similarity with *sǖt (“milk”), see Persian شیرین (širin) for the semantic development from “milk” to “sweet”.

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (süčig, “sweet”), [script needed] (süčüg, “wine, sweet”), Karakhanid [script needed] (sücig, “sweet, wine”), Turkmen süýji (“sweet”), Kyrgyz чүчү (cücü, “sweet”), Bashkir сөсө (sösö, “sweet”), etc.

Adjective

سوجی • (süci)

1. (rare) sweet

Noun

سوجی • (süci)

1. wine

   Synonyms: شراب (şarap), چاقر (çakır)

Related terms

• (?) سوت (süt)

Descendants

• (dialectal) Turkish: sücü

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سوجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 697

Urdu

Noun

سوجی • (sūjī) ?

1. suji, Suji

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu سوجی (sūjī).

Noun

سوجی (sōjī)

1. Suji, suji