صوص
Hijazi Arabic
Etymology 1
From Arabic صُوص (ṣūṣ).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sˤuːsˤ/
Noun
صوص • (ṣūṣ) m (dual صوصين (ṣūṣēn), plural صيصان (ṣīṣān))
- chick
- Synonym: كَتْكوت (katkūt)
Etymology 2
From English sauce.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sˤoːsˤ/
Noun
صوص • (ṣōṣ) m (collective, plural صوصات (ṣōṣāt))
- sauce
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Of onomatopoeic origin and related to صوصمق (susmak, “to be silent”).
Adjective
صوص • (sus)
- quiet, silent, free of sound or noise
- Synonym: خاموش (hamuş)
Descendants
- Turkish: sus
- → Armenian: սուս (sus)
Interjection
صوص • (sus)
- quiet, be still
- Synonym: خاموش (hamuş)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “sus1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4360
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “صوص”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 772
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Silere”, 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 1555
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “صوص”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3006
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “صوص”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1191