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Translingual

Symbol

su

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Sundanese.

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

su (plural su)

Alternative form of xu (“former Vietnamese currency”)
- 1970, Bernard John Hurren, Airports of the World, page 105:
  100 su = 1 Vietnam dong
- 2015, Kim Huynh, Vietnam as if...: Tales of youth, love and destiny, page 4:
  Old people pine for the days when a serving of rice cost a 100 su coin.

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

ŝchu

Etymology

From Middle High German sun, from Old High German sunu, from Proto-Germanic *sunuz. Cognate with German Sohn, Dutch zoon, English son, Icelandic sonur.

Noun

su m

(Issime, Formazza) son

References

Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Aromanian

Preposition

su

Alternative form of sum

Awa-Cuaiquer

Noun

su

land, earth, ground

References

Caracterización del pueblo Awa - Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia

Azerbaijani

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Other scripts
Cyrillic		су
Abjad		صو

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Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *sub.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [su]
Audio: (file)

Noun

su (definite accusative suyu, plural sular) (countable, uncountable)

water
stəkana su tökmək ― to pour water into a glass

Bəzi ölkərdə əhalinin təmiz içməli suyu yoxdur.
In some countries, the population doesn't have clean drinking water.
juice
armud suyu ― pear juice.

Pomidorun suyu buxarlanıb yalnız “əti” qalmalıdır. ― The juice of the tomato should vaporize and only the "meat" remain.

Declension

The words nə and su (and sometimes mövqe) are the only ones in Azerbaijani to take a y in the singular accusative, genitive, and dative cases, and in the singular possessive forms.

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Declension of su
	singular	plural
nominative	su	sular
definite accusative	suyu	suları
dative	suya	sulara
locative	suda	sularda
ablative	sudan	sulardan
definite genitive	suyun	suların

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Possessive forms of su
	nominative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	suyum	sularım
sənin (“your”)	suyun	suların
onun (“his/her/its”)	suyu	suları
bizim (“our”)	suyumuz	sularımız
sizin (“your”)	suyunuz	sularınız
onların (“their”)	suyu or suları	suları

	accusative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	suyumu	sularımı
sənin (“your”)	suyunu	sularını
onun (“his/her/its”)	suyunu	sularını
bizim (“our”)	suyumuzu	sularımızı
sizin (“your”)	suyunuzu	sularınızı
onların (“their”)	suyunu or sularını	sularını

	dative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	suyuma	sularıma
sənin (“your”)	suyuna	sularına
onun (“his/her/its”)	suyuna	sularına
bizim (“our”)	suyumuza	sularımıza
sizin (“your”)	suyunuza	sularınıza
onların (“their”)	suyuna or sularına	sularına

	locative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	suyumda	sularımda
sənin (“your”)	suyunda	sularında
onun (“his/her/its”)	suyunda	sularında
bizim (“our”)	suyumuzda	sularımızda
sizin (“your”)	suyunuzda	sularınızda
onların (“their”)	suyunda or sularında	sularında

	ablative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	suyumdan	sularımdan
sənin (“your”)	suyundan	sularından
onun (“his/her/its”)	suyundan	sularından
bizim (“our”)	suyumuzdan	sularımızdan
sizin (“your”)	suyunuzdan	sularınızdan
onların (“their”)	suyundan or sularından	sularından

	genitive
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	suyumun	sularımın
sənin (“your”)	suyunun	sularının
onun (“his/her/its”)	suyunun	sularının
bizim (“our”)	suyumuzun	sularımızın
sizin (“your”)	suyunuzun	sularınızın
onların (“their”)	suyunun or sularının	sularının

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Derived terms

sulu (“watery, juicy”)
susuz (“waterless”)
- susuzluq (“drought”)
sulamaq (“to water”)

Basque

Basque Wikipedia has an article on:

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Alternative forms

sü (Souletin)

Etymology

From Proto-Basque *su.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /s̺u/ [s̺u]
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -u
Hyphenation: su

Noun

su inan

fire

Declension

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Declension of su (inanimate, ending in vowel)
	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	su	sua	suak
ergative	suk	suak	suek
dative	suri	suari	suei
genitive	suren	suaren	suen
comitative	surekin	suarekin	suekin
causative	surengatik	suarengatik	suengatik
benefactive	surentzat	suarentzat	suentzat
instrumental	suz	suaz	suez
inessive	sutan	suan	suetan
locative	sutako	suko	suetako
allative	sutara	sura	suetara
terminative	sutaraino	suraino	suetaraino
directive	sutarantz	surantz	suetarantz
destinative	sutarako	surako	suetarako
ablative	sutatik	sutik	suetatik
partitive	surik	—	—
prolative	sutzat	—	—

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Derived terms

sukalde

Descendants

Catalan: socarrat
- Spanish: socarrat

Further reading

“su”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
“su”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsu/ [ˈsu]

Article

su

(Tabaco–Legazpi–Sorsogon) direct marker placed before common nouns
Synonym: si

Kinua ko na su pakete.
I already got the package

See also

an

Chuukese

Verb

su

to depart (on a journey)
to go

Czech

Alternative forms

jsu

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈsu]

Verb

su

(dialect, Moravia) first-person singular present of být

Usage notes

Only used in grammatical contexts where být (“to be”) is used as a main verb; where it is an auxiliary verb the standard form jsem is used. The same speaker would, for example, say "su doma" (= I'm at home) but "dorazil jsem" (= I (have) arrived).

Synonyms

jsem

Estonian

Pronoun

su

genitive singular of sa

Usage notes

Used unstressed in a sentence. When the pronoun is stressed, sinu (genitive of sina) is used.

Fala

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsu/
Rhymes: -u
Syllabification: su

Determiner

su f sg

(Lagarteiru) Apocopic form of súa (“his, her, its, their”)

Usage notes

Used in Lagarteiru before a feminine singular noun as part of a noun phrase.

See also

More information possessee, singular ...

Fala possessive determiners and pronouns
			possessee
			singular		plural
			masculine	feminine	masculine	feminine
possessor	first person	singular	mei	miña	meis	miñas
	first person	plural	nosu	nosa	nosus	nosas
	second person	singular	tei	túa, tu¹	teis	túas, tus¹
	second person	plural	vosu	vosa	vosus	vosas
	third person		sei	súa, su¹	seis	súas, sus¹

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¹ Determiner forms used in Lagarteiru before a noun.

References

Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎, 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Finnish

Noun

su

Abbreviation of sunnuntai (“Sunday”).

Anagrams

-us, us.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French sceu, from Old French seu, from Late Latin *sapūtum.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sy/
Audio: (file)
Homophones: sue, suent, sues, sus, sut, sût
Rhymes: -y

Participle

su (feminine sue, masculine plural sus, feminine plural sues)

past participle of savoir: known
J’avais su qu’elle mentait.
I had known that she was lying.

Related terms

insu m

Further reading

“su”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

us

Gagauz

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish صُو (su), from Proto-Turkic *sub. ^[1] Compare Turkish su, Azerbaijani su, Turkmen suw, Crimean Tatar suv ^[2]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /su/

Noun

su (definite accusative suyu, plural sular)

water
saa olmaa deyni lääzım su içäsin
you should drink water to be healthy

çöşmä suyu ― tap water
body of water
juice
limon suyu ― lemon juice
essence
gül suyu ― rose essence

Declension

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Declension of su
	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	su	sular
definite accusative (belirtme)	suyu	suları
dative (yönelme)	suya	sulara
locative (bulunma)	suda	sularda
ablative (çıkma)	sudan	sulardan
genitive (tamlayan)	suyun	suların

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Derived terms

sucaaz
sulak
sulamaa
sulu
susak
susamaa
susuz
susuzluk

Related terms

solucan
yıslamaa

References

[1]
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “su”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
[2]
András Rajki, A Concise Gagauz Dictionary with etymologies and Turkish, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Turkmen cognates, 2007

Further reading

Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), “su”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 72
Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “su”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 146
N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “su”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, pages 435, 436
İsmail Ulutaş, Relative Clauses in Gagauz Syntax (2004)

Greenlandic

Pronunciation

(Nuuk) IPA^(key): /su/, [sʊ]

Root

su

Usually has interrogative meaning.

Usage notes

Like pi, su is not used on its own, but must be supplied with affixes or inflectional endings.

Guaraní

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /su/

Number

su

thousand

Hausa

Etymology 1

Pronoun

sū

they (third person plural independent subject pronoun)

See also

músù (3rd person plural indirect object enclitic pronoun)
sú (3rd person plural independent object pronoun)
-sù (3rd person plural possessive enclitic pronoun)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sùː/
- (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [sùː]

Ideophone

sū̀

slithering, sliding

Hokkien

For pronunciation and definitions of su – see 軀 (“human body; body; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 軀).

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto si, from French se, Italian sé, Spanish se, ultimately from Latin sē, from Proto-Indo-European *swé +‎ -u (“personal pronoun ending”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /su/

Pronoun

su (reflexive, possessive sua, possessive plural sui)

self, oneself, himself, herself, itself, themselves (reflexive pronoun, 3rd person, singular or plural)
La soldati defensis su brave.
The soldiers defended themselves bravely.

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Personal pronouns in Ido
		singular			plural
		nominative	possessive		nominative	possessive
		nominative	singular	plural	nominative	singular	plural
first person		me	mea	mei	ni	nia	nii
second person	formal	vu	vua	vui	vi	via	vii
second person	familiar	tu	tua	tui	vi	via	vii
third person	masculine	ilu, il	ilua	ilui	ili	ilia	ilii
	feminine	elu, el	elua	elui	eli	elia	elii
	neuter	olu, ol	olua	olui	oli	olia	olii
	common	lu	lua	lui	li	lia	lii
	reflexive	su	sua	sui	su	sua	sui
indefinite		onu, on	onua	onui	onu, on	onua	onui

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The possessive plurals are seldom used.
The shortened forms are preferred.
The pangendered forms are preferred to the gendered or neuter forms in most scenarios.

Ili Turki

Noun

su

water

References

Zhào Xiāngrú and Reinhard F. Hahn (1989). "The Ili Turk People and Their Language". Central Asiatic Journal.

Indo-Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese seu, from Latin suus, from Old Latin *sovos, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyos.

Pronoun

su

(Diu) third-person possessive pronoun; his; her; its
- 1883, Hugo Schuchardt, Kreolische Studien, volume 3:
  Já fallou par su pai aquêl mais piquin, […]
  The youngest one told his father […]

Descendants

Macanese: su

Interlingua

Determiner

su (possessive)

Usage notes

Does not decline on the basis of gender or number.

Inupiaq

Alternative forms

sua
su

Pronoun

su

what
Su??
What??

Italian

Alternative forms

suso, soso (archaic)
sù (misspelling)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin sūsum.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsu/^*
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -u
Hyphenation: sù

Adverb

su

up, upstairs
Antonym: giù

Derived terms

Interjection

su

come on!

Preposition

su

on, upon, onto, on top
Lezione d'inglese numero 1: Il libro è sulla tavola.
English lesson number 1: The book is on the table.
over
L'orologio sul polsino della camicia era il marchio di fabbrica di Gianni Agnelli.
The watch over the shirt cuff was Gianni Agnelli's trademark.
about, on
Gli italiani non sono d'accordo su molte cose sul come cucinare la pasta e soprattutto sul condimento.
Italians don't agree on many things about how to cook pasta and especially on the sauce.
above
La Paz, che sorge a circa 3600 metri sul livello del mare, è la più alta capitale del mondo.
La Paz, which lies about 3600 metres above sea level, is the world's highest capital city.
in, out of
Un europeo su cinque avrà più di 65 anni entro il 2025.
One in five Europeans will be more than 65 years old by year 2025.

Usage notes

When followed by the definite article, su combines with the article to produce the following combined forms:

More information + article, Combined form ...

su + article	Combined form
su + il	sul
su + lo	sullo
su + l'	sull'
su + i	sui
su + gli	sugli
su + la	sulla
su + le	sulle

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Derived terms

References

su in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Italiot Greek

Pronoun

su (Greek spelling σού, strong personal pronoun)

Contraction of esù (“you”).

Related terms

More information Number (style), singular (familiar) ...

Number (style)	singular (familiar)		plural (formal)
	strong	weak	strong	weak
nominative	esù / isù	—	esì / isì	—
genitive	(e)sena	su^†	esà	sas^†
accusative	(e)sena	se	esà	sas
vocative	esù / isù	—	esì / isì	—
† These terms double as possessive pronouns. All personal pronoun forms are displayed at evò (“I”).

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Second person forms

Japanese

Romanization

su

The hiragana syllable す (su) or the katakana syllable ス (su) in Hepburn romanization.

Koro (India)

Etymology

Cognate with Apatani sü, Hruso fu, Idu sà, Miji ʃu, Khumi Chin si.

Noun

su

mithun

Ladino

Adjective

su (plural sus)

his, her, its
(often in the plural) their

Usage notes

For many speakers, su agrees with the antecedent in number, rather than with the noun being described.

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *śun, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm, or from Proto-Indo-European *som-. Cognate with Proto-Slavic *sъ(n).^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [sʊ]

Preposition

sù (with instrumental)

with
1. identifies the object of a reciprocal action
  kalbėtis su draugu ― to talk with a friend
2. identifies accompanying people or objects
  mama su vaikais ― mom with [her] children
  
  gerti arbatą su pienu ― to drink tea with milk
3. identifies an ingredient, feature, or contents
  dėžutė su dokumentais ― a box of documents
  
  pyragas su braškėmis ― pie with strawberries
4. identifies time by means of a simultaneous event
  keltis su saule ― to rise with the sun
5. compares two things that are similar/identical
  Aš panašus su tėčiu. ― I'm similar to [my] father.
6. identifies the state of a subject during an action
  kalbėti su šypsena ― to speak with a smile
7. identifies an instrument (equivalent to using the instrumental without su)
  valgyti su šakute ― to eat with a fork

Usage notes

"Su" can also be used to greet a person on a festival, akin to с (s) in Russian and з (z) in Ukrainian. For example: "Su nepriklausomybės diena" (Happy Independence Day) and "Su Kalėdom" (Happy Christmas).

Antonyms

be

References

[1]
Derksen, Rick (2015) “su”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 434

Further reading

Vytautas Ambrazas (2006) “3. Morphology § 8.29”, in Lithuanian Grammar, 2nd revised edition, page 419

Lombard

Etymology

Akin to Italian su, from Latin sursum.

Adverb

su

up

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [su]

Verb

su

third-person plural present of byś
- 1998, Erwin Hannusch, chapter 1, in Niedersorbisch praktisch und verständlich, Bautzen: Domowina Verlag, →ISBN, page 20:
  Tšochu dalej su Stare wiki.
  Somewhat further on is the Old Market.
- 2011 September 27, I. Neumannojc, “Sadowe bomy za derjeměśe luźa a natury”, in Nowy Casnik:
  Sadowe bomy w burskich gumnach a teke na dwórach su typiske za naš region.
  Fruit trees in farmers’ gardens and even in courtyards are typical for our region.

Macanese

Etymology

From Indo-Portuguese su, from Old Galician-Portuguese seu.

Pronoun

su

third-person reflexive possessive pronoun: his (own), her (own), its (own), their (own)
Cad'unga co su telado ― Everyone with their own roof

Atúto qui boniteza, ja dâ unga ucho pa su mai
Atúto is so sweet, he kissed his mother

Quiánca ta virá ficá nhum, nina azinha têm su sium.
A boy is growing into a young man, a girl quickly has her mister.

Usage notes

While êle-sa can be used in a somewhat similar manner as the third-person possessive pronoun, su in particular carries a reflexive sense, as in "his own", "her own", etc.. This is akin to the Balto-Slavic usage of savo, swój, свой (svoj), and so on, albeit usually only for the third person, rarely extending to the second person.
Essentially functionally equivalent to onçóm-sa, although this latter formation is less common.

Related terms

sa, sua

See also

More information Macanese personal pronouns (edit), Person ...

Macanese personal pronouns (edit)
Person	Singular	Possessive	Plural	Possessive	Reflexive	Possessive
First	iou, io, mi, ieu	iou-sa, iou-sua^#, minha, io-sa, io-sua^#	nôs, nosôtro*	nôs-sa, nôsso, nôs-sua^#	onçóm	su, onçóm-sa*, onçóm-sua^#
Second	vôs	vôs-sa, vôsso, su, vôs-sua^#	vosôtro	vosôtro-sa, su, vosôtro-sua^#
Third	êle, êla*	êle-sa, su, êle-sua^#	ilôtro, elôtro, olôtro, ulôtro*	ilôtro-sa, su, ilôtro-sua^#

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#: dated.
*: rare.

References

https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm

Mandarin

Romanization

su

Nonstandard spelling of sū.
Nonstandard spelling of sú.
Nonstandard spelling of sù.

Usage notes

Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Middle Low German

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /syː/

Pronoun

sü̂

Alternative form of sê (“she”).

Verb

sü̂

imperative singular of sên (“to see”)

Norman

Etymology 1

From Old French sud, su (“south”), from Old English sūþ, from Proto-Germanic *sunþrą.

Noun

su m (uncountable)

(France) south

Alternative forms

sud (Jersey, Guernsey)
süük (Sark)

Etymology 2

From Old French sur (“sour, bitter”), from a Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *sūraz (“sour, acidic, salty, damp”), from Proto-Indo-European *sūro- (“sour, salty, bitter”).

Adjective

su

(Jersey) sour

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

Pronoun

su

accusative/genitive of son

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse sú, accusative singular indefinite of sýr f, from Proto-Germanic *sūz, from Proto-Indo-European *suH-.

Noun

su f (definite singular sua, indefinite plural suer, definite plural suene)

a sow, especially used for breeding
Synonyms: purke, sugge

Etymology 2

From Old Norse súð.

Noun

su f (definite singular sua, indefinite plural suer, definite plural suene)

This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Related terms

sy (“to sew”)
syl m
saum m (“seam”)

Etymology 3

Noun

su f (definite singular sua, indefinite plural suer, definite plural suene)

(dialectal) flow of waves at a beach
(dialectal) a slipstream

Synonyms

(flow of waves): bølgegang, båregang

Related terms

syda, syde (“to seethe”)

References

“su” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sū, from Proto-Germanic *sūz, from Proto-Indo-European *suH-. Germanic cognates include Old Saxon sū, Old High German sū (whence German Sau), Old Norse sýr (whence Swedish so). Other Indo-European cognates: Ancient Greek ὗς (hûs), Latin sus, Russian свинья́ (svinʹjá).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /suː/

Noun

sū f

sow (female pig)

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

	singular	plural
nominative	sū	sȳ
accusative	sū	sȳ
genitive	sȳ, sūe, sūwe	sūa, sūwa
dative	sȳ	sūm, sūum, sūwum

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sugu

Pali

Etymology 1

Inherited from Sanskrit श्‍रु (ś‍ru).

Root

su

to hear
- c. 500 AD, Dhatumañjusa; republished in Dines Andersen & Helmer Smith, The Pāli Dhātupāṭha and the Dhātumañjūsā, Copenhagen: Andr. Fred. Host & son, 1921, page 46:
  121. Su savane saka sattimhi
  khi khayamhi gi saddane
  apa sambhu ca pāpuṇane
  hi gatimhi vu saṃvare.
  121. Su for listening, sak for strength, / khī for dimunition, ge for sound / ap for progeny and attainment / hi for gone, var for restraint.

Derived terms

(Verbs):

(Non-present participles, gerundives, absolutives and infinitives):

(Nouns):

Pali terms belonging to the root su (hear) (0 c, 11 e)

Etymology 2

Inherited from Sanskrit स्रु (sru).

Root

su

to flow
- c. 500 AD, Dhatumañjusa; republished in Dines Andersen & Helmer Smith, The Pāli Dhātupāṭha and the Dhātumañjūsā, Copenhagen: Andr. Fred. Host & son, 1921, page 39:
  83. su hiṃsā-kulasandhāna-
  yātrādisu su passave
  su sadde su pasavane
  si save ca si sevane.
  83. su for hurting, uniting clans, / travelling, etc., su for hearing, / su for making sound, su for flowing, / si for lying down and si for associating.

Usage notes

The initial consonant tends to geminate after prefixes.

Derived terms

(Verbs):

(Nouns):

savana

Pali terms belonging to the root su (flow) (0 c, 8 e)

Salar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *sub.

Noun

su (3rd person possessive [please provide], plural [please provide])

water

References

Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “su”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow

Sardinian

Alternative forms

s' (apocopated, used before vowels)

Etymology

From Latin ipsum, accusative singular of ipse (“himself”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /su/

Article

su m (plural (Logudorese, Nuorese) sos or (Campidanese) is, feminine sa)

(Logudorese, Campidanese, Nuorese) the (masculine singular definite article)

References

Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes
Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “ísse”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

su (Cyrillic spelling су)

third-person plural present of bȉti

Sicilian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *ipsu, from Latin ipsum, from ipse.

Article

su m sg (f sa, plural si)

Alternative form of lu (rare)

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Sicilian articles
		singular		plural
		masculine	feminine	plural
indefinite article		nu, un, 'n	na	—
definite article	liquid	lu	la	li
definite article	illiquid	u, û	a, â	i, î

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Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin suum, from Proto-Italic *sowos, from Proto-Indo-European *sewos, from *swé.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /su/ [su]
Audio (Colombia): (file)
Rhymes: -u
Syllabification: su

Determiner

su (third person possessive of singular, plural sus)

(before the noun) Apocopic form of suyo his, her, its, one's, their, your (formal)
Vino con su amigo.
He came with his friend.

Habló a sus hijas.
She spoke to her daughters.
1. used to express an approximate number: about, approximately
  Pesa sus dos kilogramos.
  It weighs about two kilograms.
  (literally, “It weighs its two kilograms.”)

Usage notes

The forms su and sus are only used before and within the noun phrase of the modified noun. In other positions, a form of suyo is used instead:

Son sus libros. — “[They] are his books.”

Son los libros suyos. — “[They] are his books.” (“...the books of him.”)

Son los suyos. — "[They] are his."

Besides being a pronoun, because su occurs in a noun phrase and expresses reference, it also grammatically classifies as a determiner (specifically a possessive/genitive determiner).

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possessor		preposed		postposed or standalone
		possessee		possessee
		singular	plural	singular		plural
		singular	plural	masculine	feminine	masculine	feminine
First person:	singular:	mi	mis	mío	mía	míos	mías
First person:	plural:	(same as postposed/standalone)		nuestro	nuestra	nuestros	nuestras
Second person (informal):	singular:	tu	tus	tuyo	tuya	tuyos	tuyas
Second person (informal):	plural:	(same as postposed/standalone)		vuestro	vuestra	vuestros	vuestras
Third person:		su	sus	suyo	suya	suyos	suyas

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Further reading

“su”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Sumerian

Romanization

su

Romanization of 𒋢 (su)

Tarifit

Alternative forms

sew

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

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Verb

su (Tifinagh spelling ⵙⵓ)

(transitive) to drink
(transitive) to absorb, to draw in, to soak up
(transitive) to swallow

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

Verbal noun: tissi (“to act of drinking”)
Causative: sessu (“to make drink; to water; to irrigate”)
- Verbal noun: asessu
Passive: twassu (“to be absorbed”)
tissi (“drinks, beverages”)
tassawt (“irrigation”)
tasast (“trough”)
imeswi (“drinker”)

Tashelhit

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Other scripts
Tifinagh		ⵙⵓ
Arabic		سو

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Verb

su

to drink

Derived terms

Verbal noun: tissi (“the act of drinking”)
tissi (“drinks, beverages”)

Tocharian B

Pronoun

su

he, she, it

See also

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English shoe.

Noun

su

shoe

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish صو (su), from earlier *suv, from Proto-Turkic *sub (“water”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰽𐰆𐰉 (sub).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /su/, [sʊ]
Hyphenation: su
Audio: (file)

Noun

su (definite accusative suyu, plural sular)

water
juice

Declension

The declension of su is somewhat irregular: the genitive form of the singular is suyun and not sunun; also, the third-person-singular possessive is suyu and not susu.

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Declension of su

	singular	plural
nominative	su	sular
definite accusative	suyu	suları
dative	suya	sulara
locative	suda	sularda
ablative	sudan	sulardan
genitive	suyun	suların

Possessive forms
nominative
	singular	plural
1st singular	suyum	sularım
2nd singular	suyun	suların
3rd singular	suyu	suları
1st plural	suyumuz	sularımız
2nd plural	suyunuz	sularınız
3rd plural	suları	suları
definite accusative
	singular	plural
1st singular	suyumu	sularımı
2nd singular	suyunu	sularını
3rd singular	suyunu	sularını
1st plural	suyumuzu	sularımızı
2nd plural	suyunuzu	sularınızı
3rd plural	sularını	sularını
dative
	singular	plural
1st singular	suyuma	sularıma
2nd singular	suyuna	sularına
3rd singular	suyuna	sularına
1st plural	suyumuza	sularımıza
2nd plural	suyunuza	sularınıza
3rd plural	sularına	sularına
locative
	singular	plural
1st singular	suyumda	sularımda
2nd singular	suyunda	sularında
3rd singular	suyunda	sularında
1st plural	suyumuzda	sularımızda
2nd plural	suyunuzda	sularınızda
3rd plural	sularında	sularında
ablative
	singular	plural
1st singular	suyumdan	sularımdan
2nd singular	suyundan	sularından
3rd singular	suyundan	sularından
1st plural	suyumuzdan	sularımızdan
2nd plural	suyunuzdan	sularınızdan
3rd plural	sularından	sularından
genitive
	singular	plural
1st singular	suyumun	sularımın
2nd singular	suyunun	sularının
3rd singular	suyunun	sularının
1st plural	suyumuzun	sularımızın
2nd plural	suyunuzun	sularınızın
3rd plural	sularının	sularının

Predicative forms
	singular	plural
1st singular	suyum	sularım
2nd singular	susun	sularsın
3rd singular	su sudur	sular sulardır
1st plural	suyuz	sularız
2nd plural	susunuz	sularsınız
3rd plural	sular	sulardır

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Derived terms

(juice):

çay suyu
domates suyu
elma suyu
et suyu
portakal suyu

Related terms

Further reading

“su”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

Upper Sorbian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsu/
Rhymes: -u
Syllabification: su

Verb

su

third-person plural present of być
Woni su na pućowanjach.
They are traveling.

Uyghur

Noun

su

Latin spelling of سۇ (su)

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *suu.

Noun

su

mouth

Inflection

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Inflection of su (inflection type 13/ma)
nominative sing.	su
genitive sing.	sun
partitive sing.	sud
partitive plur.	suid
	singular	plural
nominative	su	sud
accusative	sun	sud
genitive	sun	suiden
partitive	sud	suid
essive-instructive	sun	suin
translative	suks	suikš

inessive	sus	suiš
elative	suspäi	suišpäi
illative	suhu	suihe

adessive	sul	suil
ablative	sulpäi	suilpäi
allative	sule	suile

abessive	suta	suita
comitative	sunke	suidenke
prolative	sudme	suidme

approximative I	sunno	suidenno
approximative II	sunnoks	suidennoks
egressive	sunnopäi	suidennopäi

terminative I	suhusai	suihesai
terminative II	sulesai	suilesai
terminative III	sussai	—

additive I	suhupäi	suihepäi
additive II	sulepäi	suilepäi

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Derived terms

azegensu
avoinsu
hijamsu
magedsu
oružjsu
sulagi
sunkibu

References

Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “пасть, рот, устье”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

(Vinh) IPA^(key): [ʂu˧˥]

Adjective

su

North Central Vietnam form of sâu (“deep”)
nác su ― deep water

Welsh

Noun

su m (plural suon, not mutable)

Alternative form of si

Western Yugur

Etymology

Inherited from Old Uyghur 𐽻𐽳𐽱 (swβ /⁠suv⁠/), itself from Proto-Turkic *sub.

Noun

su

water

Compound terms

su ahqba (“canal”)
su alma (“pear”)
su duŋ (“culvert, waterway”)
su ojna- (“to swim”)
su oŋɢahrdʐa (“sink, lavatory”)
su telək (“puddle”)
su tuŋ (“water bucket”)

References

Léi, Xuǎnchūn (雷选春) (1992) 西部裕固汉词典 [Xībù Yùgù-Hàn cídiǎn], Chengdu: Sichuan Minority Publishing House, pages 331-332

White Hmong

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʂu˧/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Hmong *sjɛŋᶜ (“midday meal”),^[1]

Noun

su

noon
the noon meal, midday meal

Derived terms

noj su (“to eat lunch”)
tav su (“noon”)

Etymology 2

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not mentioned by Ratliff at all. Perhaps borrowed from Middle Chinese 腫 (MC tsyowngX, “to swell”)?”

Verb

su

to swell, rise
(of bread, cakes, etc.) to increase in volume

References

Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 299.

[1]
Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 283.

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