صوص

Hijazi Arabic

Etymology 1

From Arabic صُوص (ṣūṣ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sˤuːsˤ/

Noun

صوص • (ṣūṣ) m (dual صوصين (ṣūṣēn), plural صيصان (ṣīṣān))

1. chick

   Synonym: كَتْكوت (katkūt)

Etymology 2

From English sauce.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sˤoːsˤ/, [sˤo̞ːsˤ]

Noun

صوص • (ṣōṣ) m (collective, plural صوصات (ṣōṣāt))

1. sauce

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Of onomatopoeic origin and related to صوصمق (susmak, “to be silent”).

Adjective

صوص • (sus)

1. quiet, silent, free of sound or noise

   Synonym: خاموش (hamuş)

Descendants

• Turkish: sus
• → Armenian: սուս (sus)

Interjection

صوص • (sus)

1. quiet, be still

   Synonym: خاموش (hamuş)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sus1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4360
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صوص”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 772
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Silere”, 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 1555
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صوص”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3006
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صوص”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1191