سو

سَوّ • (saww) m

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

سَوِّ • (sawwi) (form II)

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

سو (countable and uncountable)

1. water

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

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.

From Proto-Turkic *seb-.

سَو (sev)

1. (Volga Bulgar) to love, like

• Chuvash: сав (sav)

• New Volga Bulgarian Inscriptions F. S. Hakimjanov, page 174 (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]‎ (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, →ISBN, pages 190-191

From Proto-Turkic *sub (“water”).

سو (su)

1. water

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

From Proto-Turkic *sub (“water”).

سو (su) (Mamluk-Kipchak)

1. water

• Munytu'l-Ghuzāt: a 14th-century Mamluk-Kipchak military treatise
• Vocabulaire arabe-kiptchak de l'époque de l'État mamelouk

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

سو (so)

1. ethnicity
2. breed, type

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

سو (so)

1. grinding

   ‏سو سنگ‎ ― so-e seng ― grinding stone

2. sharpening

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

سو (su)

1. igniting

   ‏سو هاکردن‎ ― su hakerden ― to ignite

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

سو • (su)

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

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

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

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

سو • (su, so)

1. profit
2. advantage

• 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

سو (su)

1. water

• ABVD

From Sanskrit शत (śata).

سو (sau)

1. hundred

Perhaps from Sanskrit सह (saha).

سو • (so) (Hindi spelling सो)

1. so, hence
2. therefore
3. consequently

• “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

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

سو • (sau) (Hindi spelling सौ)

1. hundred

• صد‎ (sad)
• سینکڑا‎ (saiṅkṛā)

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