سو

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Noun

سو (su) (countable and uncountable)

1. Arabic spelling of su (“water”)

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Dravidian [Term?]. Cognate to Tamil தூ (tū), ஊ (ū), Gondi సవి (savi).

Noun

سُو (sū)

1. flesh, meat

Further reading

• Burrow, T., Emeneau, M. B. (1984) “3373”, in A Dravidian etymological dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *seb-.

Verb

سَو (sev)

1. (Volga Bulgar) to love, like

   عُلَمَا سَمنَ سَوَان مَسجِد سَمنَ عَمَارَة طَنَان اَكِل خَيرَاتلُ الُوى بَرَكاتلُ مُون سُوَار يَالِ [...] عَلىِ خوَاجَه آولِ آترَج خُواجَه آولِ آبُوبَكَر خُوَاجَه آولِ آلِبْ خُواجَه بَلُوى كُ ― 'Ulamâsemne sevên mescidsemne 'amâret tanân ekil hayrâtlu, elüwi berekâtlu Mûn Suwâr yêli [...] Ali howâce awli Atrac howâce awli Abûbeker howâce awli Alıp howâce belüwi kü. ― This is the monument of teacher [...] Ali's son teacher Atrac's son teacher Ebubeker's son teacher Alıp, who loves scholars and builds mosques, very beneficent, whose hands are fertile, who is descent from the big Suwâr clan.

References

• Hakimzjanov, Farid Sabirzjanovich (1986) “New Volga Bulgarian Inscriptions”, in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae‎ (in Bulgar), volume 40, number 1, page 174
• Tekin, Talât (1988) Volga Bulgar kitabeleri ve Volga Bulgarcası [Volga Bulgarian Ephitaphs and Volga Bulgarian Language]‎ (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, →ISBN, pages 190-191
• Erdal, Marcel (1993) Die Sprache der wolgabolgarischen Inschriften (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 32

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *sub (“water”).

Noun

سو (su)

1. water

References

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

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *sub (“water”).

Noun

سو (su) (Mamluk-Kipchak)

1. water

References

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

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

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

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

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

References

• 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

Noun

سو (su)

1. water

References

• ABVD

Etymology

From Sanskrit शत (śata).

Numeral

سو • (sau)

1. hundred

Etymology 1

Perhaps from Sanskrit सह (saha).

Etymology 2

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