သော့

See also: သော and
See also: Appendix:Variations of "sau"

Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /θɔ̰/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: sau. • ALA-LC: soʹ • BGN/PCGN: thaw. • Okell: thó

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Doesn't seem to be mentioned by STEDT or Luce 1981.”)

Verb

သော့ • (sau.)

  1. to be quick, be rapid
Derived terms
  • လက်ရေးသော့ (lak-re:sau.)
  • သစ်သော့ (sacsau.)
  • သော့သွမ်း (sau.swam:)
  • အသော့ (a.sau.)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old Chinese 鎖 (OC *soːlʔ, “lock”). Cognate with Khün ᨪᩳ, Lü ᦌᦸ (soa), Shan သေႃး (sáu), Tai Nüa ᥔᥨᥝᥰ (söw), Khamti ꩬူဝ်း, Khmer សោ (sao), Mon သအ်. Compare Thai โซ่ (sôo, “chain”), Lao ໂສ້ (sō, “chain”), Khün ᩈ᩠ᩅᩫ᩶ (“chain”).

Noun

သော့ • (sau.)

  1. key
  2. lock
Derived terms
  • သံသော့ (samsau.)
  • သော့ကွင်း (sau.kwang:)
  • သော့ကိုင် (sau.kuing)
  • သော့ခတ် (sau.hkat)
  • သော့ချက် (sau.hkyak)
  • သော့ခလောက် (sau.hka.lauk)
  • သော့တံ (sau.tam, “key”)
  • သော့တွဲ (sau.twai:)
  • သော့ပေး (sau.pe:)
  • သော့သီး (sau.si:)
  • သော့အိမ် (sau.im)

Further reading

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