سوجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

According to Starostin, from Proto-Turkic *sǖči- (“sweet”). Also compare the similarity with *sǖt (“milk”), see Persian (širin) for the semantic development from “milk” to “sweet”.

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (süčig, “sweet”), [script needed] (süčüg, “wine, sweet”), Karakhanid [script needed] (sücig, “sweet, wine”), Turkmen süýji (“sweet”), Kyrgyz чүчү (cücü, “sweet”), Bashkir сөсө (sösö, “sweet”), etc.

Adjective

سوجی • (süci)

(rare) sweet

Noun

سوجی • (süci)

wine
Synonyms: شراب (şarap), چاقر (çakır)

Related terms

(?) سوت (süt)

Descendants

(dialectal) Turkish: sücü

References

Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سوجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 697

Urdu

Noun

سوجی • (sūjī) ?

suji, Suji

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu سوجی (sūjī).

Noun

سوجی (sōjī)

Suji, suji

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