تسو

See also: تسؤ

Arabic

Etymology 1.1

Verb

تسو (form I)

1. تَسْوَ (taswa) /tas.wa/: inflection of سَوِيَ (sawiya):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive
2. تُسْوَ (tuswa) /tus.wa/: inflection of سَوِيَ (sawiya):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past passive jussive
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past passive jussive

Etymology 1.2

Verb

تسو (form II)

1. تُسَوِّ (tusawwi) /tu.saw.wi/: inflection of سَوَّى (sawwā):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive
2. تُسَوَّ (tusawwa) /tu.saw.wa/: inflection of سَوَّى (sawwā):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past passive jussive
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past passive jussive

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (tasūg), from where also borrowed Arabic طَسُّوج (ṭassūj) and Classical Syriac ܛܺܝܣܽܘܓܳܐ (ṭīssūḡā), according to Friedrich Müller a loan of Pali catasso f (“four”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ta.suː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.suː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.suː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.suː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.su]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰæ.suː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.su]

Readings
Classical reading?	tasū
Dari reading?	tasū
Iranian reading?	tasu
Tajik reading?	tasu

Noun

تسو • (tasu) (plural تسوها (tasuhâ))

1. hour

   Synonym: (more common) ساعت (sâ'at)

2. the twenty-fourth part of a weight, measure, or day

Descendants

• → Middle Armenian: թասու (tʻasu)

References

• Brockelmann, Carl (1895) Lexicon Syriacum (in Latin), Berlin, Edinburgh: Reuther & Reichard, T. & T. Clark, page 137a
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 266
• Müller, Friedrich (1894) “Pahlawi und neupersische Etymologien”, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes (in German), volume 8, page 184
• Vullers, Johann August (1855) “تسو”, 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^[1] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 445b