sud

From a variation of sod, itself a shortening of sodden. Related to seethe.

• IPA^(key): /sʌd/
• Rhymes: -ʌd

sud (plural suds)

1. (informal) A bubble of lather or foam (the singular of suds).
   • 2018, Derek B. Miller, American By Day, page 114:

     There is a beer sud parked on her upper lip.

• soapsud

• 'uds, DSU, DUs, UDS, USD, us'd

• Sud

Borrowed from French sud. Compare Romanian sud.

sud

1. south

• datã / Datã
• vestu / Vestu, ascãpitatã
• nordu / Nordu, njadzã-noapti
• not / Not

Borrowed from French sud, from Old English suþ, from Proto-Germanic *sunþrą.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsut]

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sud m (uncountable)

1. south

   Synonyms: migdia, migjorn

   Antonym: nord

   al sud de Londres

   south of London

compass points: punts cardinals:  ^[edit]

nord-oest nord-occidental	nord septentrional	nord-est nord-oriental
oest occidental		est oriental
sud-oest sud-occidental	sud meridional	sud-est sud-oriental

• “sud”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “sud”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “sud” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sud” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• sudu

Borrowed from French sud. Cognates include Italian sud and Spanish sur.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsud/
• Hyphenation: sud

sud m (uncountable)

1. south

• “sud, sudu” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Inherited from Old Czech sud, from Proto-Slavic *sǫdъ.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsut]

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sud m inan (diminutive soudek)

1. barrel
2. keg party

• “sud”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “sud”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “sud”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Inherited from Middle French sud, su, from Old French su(d), borrowed from Old English sūþ (“south”), which see. The English (rather than Dutch or Norse) origin of the French compass points is evidenced by the vowel in est.

• IPA^(key): /syd/

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sud m (plural sud)

1. south

   Synonym: midi

   Antonym: nord

compass points: points cardinaux:  ^[edit]

nord-ouest	nord septentrion	nord-est
ouest couchant ponant occident		est levant orient
sud-ouest	sud midi méridien	sud-est

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

• dus

Borrowed from French sud, from Old English suþ, from Proto-Germanic *sunþrą.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsud/

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• Rhymes: -ud
• Hyphenation: sùd

sud m (invariable)

1. south

   Synonyms: meridione, mezzogiorno

   Antonym: nord

compass points (Germanic-origin): punti cardinali:  ^[edit]

nordovest	nord	nordest
ovest		est
sudovest	sud	sudest

• su

sud m

1. south

• French: sud

• su (continental Normandy)

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

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sud m (invariable)

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) south
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[1], page 539:

     Grànd maïr ou morte iaue,
     La lune au sud, il est basse iaue.

     Whether it be spring tides or neap tides, when the moon is due south it will be low water.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsyt/

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sud m (uncountable)

1. south

   Antonym: nòrd

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎^[2], 2 edition, →ISBN, page 935.

Borrowed from French sud, from Old English suþ.

sud n (uncountable)

1. south

   Synonym: (archaic, poetic) miazăzi

   Antonym: nord

compass points (French/Germanic origin): puncte cardinale:  ^[edit]

nord-vest	nord	nord-est
vest		est
sud-vest	sud	sud-est

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sǫdъ.

• IPA^(key): /sûːd/

sȗd m inan (Cyrillic spelling су̑д)

1. court
2. courthouse
3. tribunal
4. judgment

• “sud”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sǫdъ.

• IPA^(key): /sûːd/

sȗd m inan (Cyrillic spelling су̑д)

1. (regional) vessel
2. (Serbia) dish

• “sud”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Borrowed from French sud.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsud/ [ˈsuð̞]
• Rhymes: -ud
• Syllabification: sud

sud m (uncountable)

1. (Latin America) south

   Synonym: (more common) sur

• “sud”, 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

sud

1. romanization of 𒋤 (sud)

Borrowed from Russian суд (sud).

sud (plural sudlar)

1. court