sul

• sulu

From Vulgar Latin *sublum, from *sūbulum, from Late Latin insūbulum, from Latin insuō + -bulum, or related to sūbula.

sul n

1. roller, roll
2. warp beam of a weaving loom

• sulã

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• Rhymes: -ʏl

sul m (plural sullen, diminutive sulleke n)

1. (derogatory) naive, gullible person who is easily deceived

• IPA^(key): /ˈsul/

sul

1. adessive singular of sa (“you”)

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

sul

1. alternative form of sula

From Latin sōl. Compare Dalmatian saul, Venetan sołe, Italian sole.

sul m

1. sun

sul

1. contraction of su il: on the

• USL

From Old Norse sufl.

sul n (definite singular sulet, uncountable)

1. fat or hearty food eaten with soup, porridge, bread
2. milk porridge; milk with (grøt) or bread

• “sul” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• lus, slu

• suvl, sovl, sugl, søvl
• Suul (Christen Jensøn, 1646)
• Suggll, Suvel (David Klim, 17th century)

From Old Norse sufl, cf. English sowl and Swedish sovel.

• IPA^(key): /sʉːl/, /sʉːɽ/

sul n (definite singular sulet, uncountable)

1. fat or hearty food eaten with soup, porridge, bread
2. milk porridge; milk with (graut) or bread

• “sul” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• lus, slu

From Proto-West Germanic *sūli, from Proto-Germanic *sūliz.

sūl f

1. pillar

• Middle Dutch: suul
  • Dutch: zuil
    • → West Frisian: suil
  • Limburgish: zuul

• “sūl”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-West Germanic *sulh, from Proto-Germanic *sulhs (“plough”), from Proto-Indo-European *selk- (“to drag, to furrow”).

• IPA^(key): /suːl/

sūl m or f

1. plough
2. furrow, gully
3. a measure of land

(when masculine) Strong a-stem:

(when feminine) Strong ō-stem:

• sulh

• Middle English: sul, sule, sull, soule
  • English: sowl

From Old Galician-Portuguese sur, from French sud, from Old English sūþ, from Proto-Germanic *sunþrą.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ul, (Brazil) -uw

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sul m (plural suis)

1. south (cardinal point)

   Synonym: meio-dia

2. south (region or regions that lie in the south)

   Synonym: meridião

compass points: pontos cardeais:  ^[edit]

noroeste	norte	nordeste
oeste poente ocidente		leste este nascente oriente
sudoeste	sul	sudeste

• sulista

• “sul”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• 𐴏𐴟𐴓𐴢 (sul) — Hanifi Rohingya script

From Sanskrit चूडा (cūḍā).

sul (Hanifi spelling 𐴏𐴟𐴓𐴢)

1. hair

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *sublum, from *sūbulum, from Late Latin insūbulum, from Latin insuō + -bulum, or related to sūbula. Compare Italian subbio.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsul/

sul n (plural suluri)

1. roll, roller
2. warp beam of a weaving loom

• sulă

• “sul”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

From Latin solus.

sul m (feminine singular sula, masculine plural suls, feminine plural sulas)

1. (Sutsilvan) single

• (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) sulet
• (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) unic

sul

1. water

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