su

Clipping of English Sundanese, from Sundanese ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ (sunda).

su

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Sundanese.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Sundanese terms

See xu.

su (plural su)

1. Alternative form of xu (“former Vietnamese currency”).
   • 1970, Bernard John Hurren, Airports of the World, page 105:

     100 su = 1 Vietnam dong

   • 2015, Kim Huynh, Vietnam as if...: Tales of youth, love and destiny, page 4:

     Old people pine for the days when a serving of rice cost a 100 su coin.

• ŝchu

From Middle High German sun, from Old High German sunu, from Proto-Germanic *sunuz. Cognate with German Sohn, Dutch zoon, English son, Icelandic sonur.

su m

1. (Issime, Formazza) son

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

su

1. alternative form of sum

su

1. land, earth, ground

• Caracterización del pueblo Awa - Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia

From Proto-Turkic *sub.

• IPA^(key): [su]

• Audio:

  (file)

su (definite accusative suyu, plural sular) (countable, uncountable)

1. water

   stəkana su tökmək ― to pour water into a glass

   Bəzi ölkərdə əhalinin təmiz içməli suyu yoxdur.

   In some countries, the population doesn't have clean drinking water.

2. juice

   armud suyu ― pear juice.

   Pomidorun suyu buxarlanıb yalnız “əti” qalmalıdır. ― The juice of the tomato should vaporize and only the "meat" remain.

The words nə and su (and sometimes mövqe) are the only ones in Azerbaijani to take a y in the singular accusative, genitive, and dative cases, and in the singular possessive forms.

• sulu (“watery, juicy”)
• susuz (“waterless”)
  • susuzluq (“drought”)
• sulamaq (“to water”)

• sü (Soule)

From Proto-Basque *su.

• IPA^(key): /s̺u/ [s̺u]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: su

su inan

1. fire

• sukalde

• Catalan: socarrat
  • Spanish: socarrat

• “su”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “su”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

• IPA^(key): /ˈsu/ [ˈsu]

su

1. (Tabaco–Legazpi–Sorsogon) direct marker placed before common nouns

   Synonym: si

   Kinua ko na su pakete.

   I already got the package

su

1. to depart (on a journey)
2. to go

• jsu

• IPA^(key): [ˈsu]

su

1. (dialect, Moravia) first-person singular present of být

• Only used in grammatical contexts where být (“to be”) is used as a main verb; where it is an auxiliary verb the standard form jsem is used. The same speaker would, for example, say "su doma" (= I'm at home) but "dorazil jsem" (= I (have) arrived).

• jsem

su

1. genitive singular of sa

• Used unstressed in a sentence. When the pronoun is stressed, sinu (genitive of sina) is used.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsu/
• Rhymes: -u
• Syllabification: su

su f sg

1. (Lagarteiru) apocopic form of súa (“his, her, its, their”)

• Used in Lagarteiru before a feminine singular noun as part of a noun phrase.

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

su

1. abbreviation of sunnuntai (“Sunday”)

• -us, us.

Inherited from Middle French sceu, from Old French seu, from Late Latin *sapūtum.

• IPA^(key): /sy/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Homophones: sue, suent, sues, sus, sut, sût
• Rhymes: -y

su (feminine sue, masculine plural sus, feminine plural sues)

1. past participle of savoir: known

   J'avais su qu'elle mentait.

   I had known that she was lying.

• insu m

contraction of sur

• IPA^(key): /sy/

su

1. (colloquial, Quebec) sur

• s'a
• su'l

• “su”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• us

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish صُو (su), from Proto-Turkic *sub. ^[1] Compare Turkish su, Azerbaijani su, Turkmen suw, Crimean Tatar suv ^[2]

• IPA^(key): /su/

su (definite accusative suyu, plural sular)

1. water

   çöşmä suyu ― tap water

   saa olmaa deyni lääzım su içäsin

   you should drink water to be healthy

2. body of water
3. juice

   limon suyu ― lemon juice

4. essence

   gül suyu ― rose essence

• Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), “su”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 72
• Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “su”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 146
• N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “su”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, pages 435, 436
• İsmail Ulutaş, Relative Clauses in Gagauz Syntax (2004)

• (Nuuk) IPA^(key): /su/, [sʊ]

su

1. Usually has interrogative meaning.

Like pi, su is not used on its own, but must be supplied with affixes or inflectional endings.

• IPA^(key): /su/

su

1. thousand

sū

1. they (third person plural independent subject pronoun)

• músù (3rd person plural indirect object enclitic pronoun)
• sú (3rd person plural independent object pronoun)
• -sù (3rd person plural possessive enclitic pronoun)

• IPA^(key): /sùː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [sùː]

sū̀

1. slithering, sliding

For pronunciation and definitions of su – see 軀 (“human body; body; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 軀).

From Esperanto si, from French se, Italian sé, Spanish se, ultimately from Latin sē, from Proto-Indo-European *swé +‎ -u (“personal pronoun ending”).

• IPA^(key): /su/

su (reflexive, possessive sua, possessive plural sui)

1. self, oneself, himself, herself, itself, themselves (reflexive pronoun, 3rd person, singular or plural)

   La soldati defensis su brave.

   The soldiers defended themselves bravely.

su

1. water

• Zhào Xiāngrú and Reinhard F. Hahn (1989). "The Ili Turk People and Their Language". Central Asiatic Journal.

From Old Galician-Portuguese seu, from Latin suus, from Old Latin *sovos, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyos.

su

1. (Diu) third-person possessive pronoun; his; her; its
   • 1883, Hugo Schuchardt, Kreolische Studien, volume 3:

     Já fallou par su pai aquêl mais piquin, […]

     The youngest one told his father […]

• Macanese: su

su (possessive)

1. his
2. her
3. its

• Does not decline on the basis of gender or number.

• sua
• su

su

1. what

   Su??

   What??

su

1. (transitive) to sing

The verb is normally accompanied by "ole" (song).

• suso, soso (archaic)
• sù (misspelling)

Inherited from Latin sūsum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsu/^*

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: sù

su

1. up, upstairs

   Antonym: giù

su

1. come on!

su

1. on, upon, onto, on top

   Lezione d'inglese numero 1: Il libro è sulla tavola.

   English lesson number 1: The book is on the table.

2. over

   L'orologio sul polsino della camicia era il marchio di fabbrica di Gianni Agnelli.

   The watch over the shirt cuff was Gianni Agnelli's trademark.

3. about, on

   Gli italiani non sono d'accordo su molte cose sul come cucinare la pasta e soprattutto sul condimento.

   Italians don't agree on many things about how to cook pasta and especially on the sauce.

4. above

   La Paz, che sorge a circa 3600 metri sul livello del mare, è la più alta capitale del mondo.

   La Paz, which lies about 3600 metres above sea level, is the world's highest capital city.

5. in, out of

   Un europeo su cinque avrà più di 65 anni entro il 2025.

   One in five Europeans will be more than 65 years old by year 2025.

• When followed by the definite article, su combines with the article to produce the following combined forms:

su + article	Combined form
su + il	sul
su + lo	sullo
su + l'	sull'
su + i	sui
su + gli	sugli
su + la	sulla
su + le	sulle

• su due piedi
• su misura
• su richiesta

• su in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

su (Greek spelling σού, strong personal pronoun)

1. contraction of esù (“you”)

su

1. The hiragana syllable す (su) or the katakana syllable ス (su) in Hepburn romanization.

Cognate with Apatani sü, Hruso fu, Idu sà, Miji ʃu, Khumi Chin si.

su

1. mithun

su (plural sus)

1. his, her, its
2. (often in the plural) their

For many speakers, su agrees with the antecedent in number, rather than with the noun being described.

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *śun, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm, or from Proto-Indo-European *som-. Cognate with Proto-Slavic *sъ(n).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [sʊ]

sù (with instrumental)

1. with
   1. identifies the object of a reciprocal action

      kalbėtis su draugu ― to talk with a friend

   2. identifies accompanying people or objects

      mama su vaikais ― mom with [her] children

      gerti arbatą su pienu ― to drink tea with milk

   3. identifies an ingredient, feature, or contents

      dėžutė su dokumentais ― a box of documents

      pyragas su braškėmis ― pie with strawberries

   4. identifies time by means of a simultaneous event

      keltis su saule ― to rise with the sun

   5. compares two things that are similar/identical

      Aš panašus su tėčiu. ― I'm similar to [my] father.

   6. identifies the state of a subject during an action

      kalbėti su šypsena ― to speak with a smile

   7. identifies an instrument (equivalent to using the instrumental without su)

      valgyti su šakute ― to eat with a fork

"Su" can also be used to greet a person on a festival, akin to с (s) in Russian and з (z) in Ukrainian. For example: "Su nepriklausomybės diena" (Happy Independence Day) and "Su Kalėdom" (Happy Christmas).

• be

• Vytautas Ambrazas (2006) “3. Morphology § 8.29”, in Lithuanian Grammar, 2nd revised edition, page 419

Akin to Italian su, from Latin sursum.

su

1. up

• IPA^(key): [su]

su

1. third-person plural present of byś
   • 1998, Erwin Hannusch, chapter 1, in Niedersorbisch praktisch und verständlich, Bautzen: Domowina Verlag, →ISBN, page 20:

     Tšochu dalej su Stare wiki.

     Somewhat further on is the Old Market.

   • 2011 September 27, I. Neumannojc, “Sadowe bomy za derjeměśe luźa a natury”, in Nowy Casnik:

     Sadowe bomy w burskich gumnach a teke na dwórach su typiske za naš region.

     Fruit trees in farmers’ gardens and even in courtyards are typical for our region.

From Indo-Portuguese su, from Old Galician-Portuguese seu.

su

1. third-person reflexive possessive pronoun: his (own), her (own), its (own), their (own)

   Cad'unga co su telado ― Everyone with their own roof

   Atúto qui boniteza, ja dâ unga ucho pa su mai

   Atúto is so sweet, he kissed his mother

   Quiánca ta virá ficá nhum, nina azinha têm su sium.

   A boy is growing into a young man, a girl quickly has her mister.

• While êle-sa can be used in a somewhat similar manner as the third-person possessive pronoun, su in particular carries a reflexive sense, as in "his own", "her own", etc. This is akin to the Balto-Slavic usage of savo, swój, свой (svoj), and so on, albeit usually only for the third person, rarely extending to the second person.
• Essentially functionally equivalent to onçóm-sa, although this latter formation is less common.

• sa, sua

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm

su

1. nonstandard spelling of sū
2. nonstandard spelling of sú
3. nonstandard spelling of sù

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

• sud

su m

1. south

• IPA^(key): /syː/

sü̂

1. alternative form of sê (“she”)

sü̂

1. imperative singular of sên (“to see”)

From Old French sud, su (“south”), from Old English sūþ, from Proto-Germanic *sunþrą.

su m (uncountable)

1. (continental) south

• sud (Jersey, Guernsey)
• süük (Sark)

From Old French sur (“sour, bitter”), from a Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *sūraz (“sour, acidic, salty, damp”), from Proto-Indo-European *sūro- (“sour, salty, bitter”).

su

1. (Jersey) sour

su

1. accusative/genitive of son

From Old Norse sú, accusative singular indefinite of sýr f, from Proto-Germanic *sūz, from Proto-Indo-European *suH-.

su f (definite singular sua, indefinite plural suer, definite plural suene)

1. a sow, especially used for breeding

   Synonyms: purke, sugge

From Old Norse súð.

su f (definite singular sua, indefinite plural suer, definite plural suene)

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• sy (“to sew”)
• syl m
• saum m (“seam”)

su f (definite singular sua, indefinite plural suer, definite plural suene)

1. (dialectal) flow of waves at a beach
2. (dialectal) a slipstream

• (flow of waves): bølgegang, båregang

• syda, syde (“to seethe”)

• “su” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-West Germanic *sū, from Proto-Germanic *sūz, from Proto-Indo-European *suH-. Germanic cognates include Old Saxon sū, Old High German sū (whence German Sau), Old Norse sýr (whence Swedish so). Other Indo-European cognates: Ancient Greek ὗς (hûs), Latin sus, Russian свинья́ (svinʹjá).

• IPA^(key): /suː/

sū f

1. sow (female pig)

• sugu

Inherited from Sanskrit श्‍रु (ś‍ru).

su

1. to hear
   • c. 500 AD, Dhatumañjusa; republished in Dines Andersen & Helmer Smith, The Pāli Dhātupāṭha and the Dhātumañjūsā, Copenhagen: Andr. Fred. Host & son, 1921, page 46:

     121. Su savane saka sattimhi
     khi khayamhi gi saddane
     apa sambhu ca pāpuṇane
     hi gatimhi vu saṃvare.

     121. Su for listening, sak for strength, / khī for dimunition, ge for sound / ap for progeny and attainment / hi for gone, var for restraint.

Inherited from Sanskrit स्रु (sru).

su

1. to flow
   • c. 500 AD, Dhatumañjusa; republished in Dines Andersen & Helmer Smith, The Pāli Dhātupāṭha and the Dhātumañjūsā, Copenhagen: Andr. Fred. Host & son, 1921, page 39:

     83. su hiṃsā-kulasandhāna-
     yātrādisu su passave
     su sadde su pasavane
     si save ca si sevane.

     83. su for hurting, uniting clans, / travelling, etc., su for hearing, / su for making sound, su for flowing, / si for lying down and si for associating.

The initial consonant tends to geminate after prefixes.

From Proto-Turkic *sub.

su (3rd person possessive [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. water

Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “su”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow

• s' (apocopated, used before vowels)

From Latin ipsum, accusative singular of ipse (“himself”).

• IPA^(key): /su/

su m (plural (Logudorese, Nuorese) sos or (Campidanese) is, feminine sa)

1. (Logudorese, Campidanese, Nuorese) the (masculine singular definite article)

• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes
• Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “ísse”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg

su (Cyrillic spelling су)

1. third-person plural present of bȉti

From Vulgar Latin *ipsu, from Latin ipsum, from ipse.

su m sg (f sa, plural si)

1. alternative form of lu (rare)

Inherited from Latin suum, from Proto-Italic *sowos, from Proto-Indo-European *sewos, from *swé.

• IPA^(key): /su/ [su]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -u
• Syllabification: su

su (third person possessive of singular, plural sus)

1. (before the noun) apocopic form of suyo his, her, its, one's, their, your (formal)

   Vino con su amigo.

   He came with his friend.

   Habló a sus hijas.

   She spoke to her daughters.

   1. used to express an approximate number: about, approximately

      Pesa sus dos kilogramos.

      It weighs about two kilograms.

      (literally, “It weighs its two kilograms.”)

• The forms su and sus are only used before and within the noun phrase of the modified noun. In other positions, a form of suyo is used instead:

Son sus libros. — “[They] are his books.”

Son los libros suyos. — “[They] are his books.” (“...the books of him.”)

Son los suyos. — "[They] are his."

Besides being a pronoun, because su occurs in a noun phrase and expresses reference, it also grammatically classifies as a determiner (specifically a possessive/genitive determiner).

• “su”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

su

1. romanization of 𒋢 (su)

• sew

From Proto-Berber *ăswəʔ. Compare Central Atlas Tamazight ⵙⵡ (sw, “to drink”), Tashelhit su (“to drink”), Kabyle sew (“to drink”), Northern Saharan Berber sew (“to drink”), Ghadames esw (“to drink”), Tuareg esw (“to drink”).

su (Tifinagh spelling ⵙⵓ)

1. (transitive) to drink
2. (transitive) to absorb, to draw in, to soak up
3. (transitive) to swallow

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• sw, ssu

From Proto-Berber *ăswəʔ. Compare Central Atlas Tamazight ⵙⵡ (sw, “to drink”), Tarifit su (“to drink”), Kabyle sew (“to drink”), Northern Saharan Berber sew (“to drink”), Ghadames esw (“to drink”), Tuareg esw (“to drink”), and Zenaga ešbi (“to drink”).

• IPA^(key): /su/

su (Tifinagh spelling ⵙⵓ, verbal noun tissi)

1. to drink
2. to smoke
3. to irrigate, to water
4. to absorb
5. to lose oneself, to be overwhelmed
6. (figuratively) to score (a goal)

• Stroomer, Harry (2025) Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 1 a—e (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/1) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 2108b

su

1. he, she, it

• ñaś
• tuwe
• wes
• yes

From English shoe.

su

1. shoe

From Ottoman Turkish صو (su), from earlier *suv, from Proto-Turkic *sub (“water”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰽𐰆𐰉 (sub).

• IPA^(key): /su/, [sʊ]
• Hyphenation: su

• Audio:

  (file)

su (definite accusative suyu, plural sular)

1. water
2. juice

The declension of su is somewhat irregular: the genitive form of the singular is suyun and not sunun; also, the third-person-singular possessive is suyu and not susu.

• “su”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

• IPA^(key): /ˈsu/
• Rhymes: -u
• Syllabification: su

su

1. third-person plural present of być

   Woni su na pućowanjach.

   They are traveling.

su

1. Latin spelling of سۇ (su)

From Proto-Finnic *suu.

su

1. mouth

Inflection of su (inflection type 13/ma)
nominative sing.	su
genitive sing.	sun
partitive sing.	sud
partitive plur.	suid
	singular	plural
nominative	su	sud
accusative	sun	sud
genitive	sun	suiden
partitive	sud	suid
essive-instructive	sun	suin
translative	suks	suikš
inessive	sus	suiš
elative	suspäi	suišpäi
illative	suhu	suihe
adessive	sul	suil
ablative	sulpäi	suilpäi
allative	sule	suile
abessive	suta	suita
comitative	sunke	suidenke
prolative	sudme	suidme
approximative I	sunno	suidenno
approximative II	sunnoks	suidennoks
egressive	sunnopäi	suidennopäi
terminative I	suhusai	suihesai
terminative II	sulesai	suilesai
terminative III	sussai	—
additive I	suhupäi	suihepäi
additive II	sulepäi	suilepäi

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “пасть, рот, устье”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[2], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

• (Vinh) IPA^(key): [ʂu˧˥]

su

1. North Central Vietnam form of sâu (“deep”)

   nác su ― deep water

su m (plural suon, not mutable)

1. alternative form of si

Inherited from Old Uyghur 𐽻𐽳𐽱 (swβ /⁠suv⁠/), itself from Proto-Turkic *sub.

su

1. water

• Léi, Xuǎnchūn (雷选春) (1992) 西部裕固汉词典 [Xībù Yùgù-Hàn cídiǎn], Chengdu: Sichuan Minority Publishing House, pages 331-332

• IPA^(key): /ʂu˧/

From Proto-Hmong *sjɛŋᶜ (“midday meal”),^[1]

su

1. noon
2. the noon meal, midday meal

su

1. to swell, rise
2. (of bread, cakes, etc.) to increase in volume

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[3], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 299.