सोनउं
Old Gujarati
Alternative forms
- सोवन्नउं (sovannaüṃ), सोव्रन (sovrana)
Etymology
Inherited from Gurjara Apabhramsa सोण्णउं (soṇṇaũ), from Prakrit सोअण्ण (soaṇṇa), सोवण्ण (sovaṇṇa) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀓- (-ka-), from Sanskrit सौवर्ण (sauvarṇa), vṛddhi derivative of सुवर्ण (suvárṇa).
Noun
सोनउं • (sonaüṃ) n
- gold
- c. 14th century, Vasantavilās 71b:
- मुरकलइं मुह मचकोडइ मोडइ ललवल अंगु।
वानि सोवन्न वखोडइ लोडइ नितु नवु रंगु।- murakalaïṃ muha macakoḍaï moḍaï lalavala aṃgu.
vāni sovanna vakhoḍaï loḍaï nitu navu raṃgu.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- murakalaïṃ muha macakoḍaï moḍaï lalavala aṃgu.
- मुरकलइं मुह मचकोडइ मोडइ ललवल अंगु।
- c. 1450, Nalarāyadavadantīcarita 45:
- मरकत-मणि साथीय कूयलउं। पीत कंति सोना-नउं तलउं।
पदमराग-थांभा रूयडा। चित्रि लिख्या सारस-सूयडा॥- marakata-maṇi sāthīya kūyalaüṃ. pīta kaṃti sonā-naüṃ talaüṃ.
padamarāga-thāṃbhā rūyaḍā. citri likhyā sārasa-sūyaḍā. - [a splendid pavilion adorned] with a delicate svastika of emerald and a floor of lovely yellow gold,
beautiful with ruby pillars, and pictures of sāras-birds and parrots
- marakata-maṇi sāthīya kūyalaüṃ. pīta kaṃti sonā-naüṃ talaüṃ.
- मरकत-मणि साथीय कूयलउं। पीत कंति सोना-नउं तलउं।
Descendants
- Gojri: سونو (sono)
- Gujarati: સોનું (sonũ)
- Malvi: सोनो (sono)
- Marwari:
- Devanagari script: सोनौ (sonau), स़ोनौ
- Mahajani script: 𑅰𑅔𑅧𑅒 (sonu), 𑅰𑅳𑅔𑅧𑅒 (sonu)
References
- Ernest Bender (1951) “sonā, sona”, in Nalarāyadavadantīcarita [Adventures of King Nala and Davadantī], Independence Square, Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, page 369, column 2.
- मधुसूदन चिमनलाल मोदी [Madhusudan Chimannlal Modi] (1960) “सोवन्न”, in वसन्त विलास फागु [vasanta vilāsa phāgu], जोधपुर, राजस्थान [Jodhpur, Rajasthan]: राजस्थान प्राच्यविद्या प्रतिष्ठान [Rajasthan Oriental Research Institute], page ९१, column 2.
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “suvárṇa”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 779