سوا

Bakhtiari

Etymology

Likely from Arabic صبح. Cognate with Southwestern Fars سوا.

Noun

سوا (sova)

1. tomorrow

   سوا ایرم هونه

   sova eirom howne.

   Tomorrow I'll go home.

North Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic سواء. Compare also Arabic سويا.

Adverb

سوا • (sawa)

1. (particularly Lebanon) together

   Synonym: مَعْ بَعْض (maʕ baʕḍ)

   ما فيكن تقعدو سوا بغرفة من دون ما تصَرّخو؟

   mā fīkun ti’‘dū sawā b-ḡirfe min dūn mā tṣarrḵū?

   Are you not able to be in a room together without screaming?

2. (now uncommon) completely; wholly

Usage notes

• Sense 2 is preserved in the set expression كلُّو سَوَا (kullo sawa, “all of it”) and other inflected forms.

Ottoman Turkish

سوا

Alternative forms

• سوكه (söke)

Etymology

According to Nishanyan, from Proto-Turkic *söbek (“mill or door pin”), from the same root of سوبو (söbü, “tapering, conical”).

Noun

سوا • (sıva, süva)

1. doorframe, the frame into which a door is fitted

   Synonym: چرچوه (çerçeve)

2. window frame, the framework around a window

Descendants

• Turkish: söve
• → Armenian: սօ̈վա̈ (sövä) — Akhaltsikhe

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “söve1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4319
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سوكه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 702
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Postis”, 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 1325
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سوا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2693
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “söve”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سوا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1085

South Levantine Arabic

Root
س و ي
5 terms

Etymology

From Arabic سواء.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.wa/, [ˈsa.wa]

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Adverb

سوا • (sawa)

1. together (optionally preceded by مع (maʕ))

   Synonym: مع بعض (maʕ baʕḍ)

Southwestern Fars

Alternative forms

سبا (sabâ) صبا (sabâ)

Noun

سوا (savâ)

1. (Masarm, Deh Sarv, Kuzarg) tomorrow