سوی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سَوِيّ (sawiyy, “equal, even”).

Adjective

سوی • (seviy)

1. equal, uniform, equable, without variations or changes

   Synonym: دنك (denk)

2. even, level, flat, having the same height at all places

   Synonyms: دوز (düz), طوغری (doğrı)

Descendants

• Turkish: seviy

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “seviy”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4176
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “seviyy”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1134
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سوی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 703
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سوی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2716
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سوی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1095

Persian

Alternative forms

• سو (su)
• سون (sun)
• سین (sin) (dialectal, Yazd, Kerman)

Etymology

From Middle Persian swk' (sōg, “side, direction”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [soːj]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [suːj]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [suːj]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [suːj]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [suj]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [suːj]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [sɵj]

Readings
Classical reading?	sōy
Dari reading?	sūy
Iranian reading?	suy
Tajik reading?	süy

Noun

سوی • (suy)

1. side
2. direction
3. path

Derived terms

• دوسوی (do suy)
• چارسوی (čâr suy)

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “swk'”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 75
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “سوی”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul