suh

Clipping of English Suba with h as a placeholder.

suh

1. (international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 639-3 language code for Suba.

suh

1. Pronunciation spelling of sir, usually to suggest the speech of African-American slaves.

   Alternative form: sah

   • 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:

     "Good-mawnin', suh," he said, lifting his cap politely.

• yessuh
• saar

suh

1. Pronunciation spelling of sup (“what's up”).

   Suh, dude?

• uhs, USH, HUS, shu', SHU, Shu, ush, HUs, Hsü, Hsu, UHS, Hus

• (Myanmar) /su˦˧/
• (Lianghe) [so³¹]
• (Longchuan) [so³¹]
• (Luxi) [sua⁵⁵]
• (Xiandao) [so³¹]

suh

1. to walk

Borrowed from Chinese 鎖 / 锁 (suǒ, “lock”).

• (Myanmar) /su˦˧/
• (Lianghe) [so⁵⁵]
• (Longchuan) [so⁵⁵]
• (Luxi) [sɔ⁵¹]
• (Xiandao) [sɔ⁵⁵]

suh

1. lock
2. key

• Inglis, Douglas, Sampu, Nasaw, Jaseng, Wilai, Jana, Thocha (2005) A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎^[1], Payap University, page 121

• IPA^(key): /sə/, /sɒ/

From English so.

suh

1. to such an extent
2. to the same extent
3. so

From English say.

suh

1. that
2. say

From English sir.

suh

1. sir

•  Virginia Mixson Geraty, Gulluh fuh oonuh: Gullah for You (1997)

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsuh/ [ˈsʊh]
• Rhymes: -uh
• Syllabification: suh

Borrowed from Javanese ꦱꦸꦃ (suh, “band, bind, hoop”), from Old Javanese suh (“band, girdle, tie”).

suh (plural suh-suh)

1. broomstick base strap; broom rope made from coconut leaf frond skin or rattan, woven to form a circle or bracelet according to the size of the circle of the broom to be tied
2. small circular woven bracelet for securing the drum's tension rope, made from rattan or cattle skin
3. bamboo or rattan blades woven into a circle, used as a binding for sticks (for brooms) or palm sticks (for whips)
4. (architecture) brass attached to the end of the saka

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suh (plural suh-suh)

1. body heat

   Synonym: panas badan

2. temperature

   Synonym: suhu

• “suh” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• sȗv (Serbia)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *suxъ.

• IPA^(key): /sûːx/

sȗh (Cyrillic spelling су̑х, definite sȗhī, comparative sȕšī)

1. dry, dried
2. thin, meagre, slender (of a man)
3. pinched, haggard, gaunt (of a face)
4. withered, sear

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

From Proto-Slavic *suxъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *saušás, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂sowsos, from *h₂sews-.

• IPA^(key): /súːx/

sȗh (comparative bȍlj sȗh, superlative nȁjbolj sȗh)

1. dry (free from liquid or moisture)

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• “suh”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “suh”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references