សោ

See also: សេះ, ស៊ី, សុំ, ស, and សោះ

Khmer

Pronunciation

Orthographic and Phonemic	សោ so
WT romanisation	sao
(standard) IPA^(key)	/sao/

Etymology 1

From Old Chinese 鎖 (OC *soːlʔ). Cognate with Burmese သော့ (sau.), Khün ᨪᩳ, Lü ᦌᦸ (soa), Shan သေႃး (sáu), Tai Nüa ᥔᥨᥝᥰ (söw), Khamti ꩬူဝ်း, Mon သအ်. Compare Thai โซ่ (sôo, “chain”), Lao ໂສ້ (sō, “chain”), Khün ᩈ᩠ᩅᩫ᩶ (“chain”).

Noun

សោ • (sao)

lock

Derived terms

កូនសោ (koun sao, “key”)

Etymology 2

From Teochew 嫂 (so2, “elder sister-in-law”). Cognate with Thai ซ้อ (sɔ́ɔ).

Noun

សោ • (sao)

sister-in-law (older brother's wife)

Adjective

សោ • (sao) (abstract noun ភាពសោ)

to be stupid, ignorant, useless

Pali

Alternative forms

sa (Latin script)
𑀲 (Brahmi script)
स (Devanagari script)
স (Bengali script)
ස (Sinhalese script)
သ (Burmese script)
ส or สะ (Thai script)
ᩈ (Tai Tham script)
ສ or ສະ (Lao script)
ស (Khmer script)
𑄥 (Chakma script)

Alternative forms

so (Latin script)
𑀲𑁄 (Brahmi script)
सो (Devanagari script)
সো (Bengali script)
සො (Sinhalese script)
သော or သေႃ (Burmese script)
โส (Thai script)
ᩈᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
ໂສ (Lao script)
𑄥𑄮 (Chakma script)

Pronoun

សោ m

Khmer script form of so, which is nominative singular of ត (ta, “he, it”)

Adjective

សោ

Khmer script form of so, which is nominative singular masculine of ត (ta, “that”)