سوا
Bakhtiari
Etymology
Likely from Arabic صبح. Cognate with Southwestern Fars سوا.
North Levantine Arabic
Adverb
سوا • (sawa)
- (particularly Lebanon) together
- Synonym: مَعْ بَعْض (maʕ baʕḍ)
- 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?
- (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
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)
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 |
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س و ي |
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sa.wa/, [ˈsa.wa]
Audio (Ramallah) (file)
Southwestern Fars
Alternative forms
سبا (sabâ) صبا (sabâ)
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