سوا
Bakhtiari
Etymology
Likely from Arabic صبح. Cognate with Southwestern Fars سوا.
Noun
سوا (sova)
- 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)
- (particularly Lebanon) together
- 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?
- Synonym: مَعْ بَعْض (maʿ baʿḍ)
- (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)
- doorframe, the frame into which a door is fitted
- Synonym: چرچوه (çerçeve)
- 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, 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, 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, Vienna, column 2693
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “söve”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “سوا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1085
South Levantine Arabic
| Root |
|---|
| س و ي |
Etymology
From Arabic سواء.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sa.wa/, [ˈsa.wa]
Audio (Ramallah) (file)
Adverb
سوا • (sawa)
- together (optionally preceded by مع (maʕ))
- Synonym: مع بعض (maʕ baʕḍ)
Southwestern Fars
Noun
سوا (savâ)
- (Masarm, Deh Sarv, Kuzarg) tomorrow