سو

See also: سؤ‎ and شو‎

Arabic

Noun

سَوّ • (saww) m

1. Alternative form of سَوْء‎ (sawʔ, “badness, evil, corruption”)

Verb

سَوِّ • (sawwi) (form II)

1. second-person masculine singular active imperative of سَوَّى‎ (sawwā)

Azerbaijani

Noun

سو (countable and uncountable)

1. water

Bakhtiari

Etymology

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

Noun

سو (sow)

1. morning

   ‏سو زی بیدار ایبوم‎

   sow e zi bidar eybuom.

   I'll wake up early in the morning.

2. tomorrow

   ‏سو ایرم هونه‎

   sow eirom howne.

   I'll go home tomorrow.

Bulgar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *seb-.

Verb

سَو (sev)

1. (Volga Bulgar) to love, like

Descendants

• Chuvash: сав (sav)

References

• New Volga Bulgarian Inscriptions F. S. Hakimjanov, page 174 [1] (On a tombstone. The inscription describes a person who died on the 22nd of comadilule (I) in the year 708 in the Hijri calendar. It falls on the 12th of July in the year 1308 in the Gregorian calendar.)
• Tekin, Talât (1988) Volga Bulgar kitabeleri ve Volga Bulgarcası [Volga Bulgarian Ephitaphs and Volga Bulgarian Language]‎^[2] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, →ISBN, pages 190-191

Chagatai

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *sub (“water”).

Noun

سو (su)

1. water

References

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

Kipchak

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

Mazanderani

Etymology 1

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

Noun

سو (so)

1. ethnicity
2. breed, type

Etymology 2

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

Noun

سو (so)

1. grinding

   ‏سو سنگ‎ ― so-e seng ― grinding stone

2. sharpening

Etymology 3

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

Noun

سو (su)

1. igniting

   ‏سو هاکردن‎ ― su hakerden ― to ignite

Persian

Etymology 1

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

Noun

سو • (su)

1. Alternative form of سوی‎ (suy): direction, side

Etymology 2

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

Noun

سو • (su)

1. (archaic) light, sight, ability to see
2. (Tehran) shimmer, glitter, sight
3. (Isfahan) glitter, sight
4. (Fars) sight, opinion
5. (Khorasan) sight, glitter, view

Etymology 3

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

Noun

سو • (su, so)

1. profit
2. advantage

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

Salar

Noun

سو (su)

1. water

References

• ABVD

Sindhi

Etymology

From Sanskrit शत (śata).

Numeral

سو (sau)

1. hundred

Urdu

Etymology 1

Perhaps from Sanskrit सह (saha).

Adverb

سو • (so) (Hindi spelling सो)

1. so, hence
2. therefore
3. consequently

References

• “سو”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “سو”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 388

Etymology 2

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

Numeral

Urdu numbers ^(edit)

		1,000
←  90	←  99	١٠٠ 100	101  →	1,000  →
		10
Cardinal: سو, صد‎, سینکڑا‎     Ordinal: سوواں‎     Multiplier: سو گنا‎

سو • (sau) (Hindi spelling सौ)

1. hundred

Synonyms

• صد‎ (sad)
• سینکڑا‎ (saiṅkṛā)

References

• “سو”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “sau”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.