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

Inherited 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 تصرخو؟

   ma fīkun tiʔʕdu sawa b-ḡirfe min dūn ma tṣarrḵu?

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

Derived terms

• كلُّو سَوَا (kullo sawa, “all of it”)

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] (in French), 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

Inherited 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