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sau

  1. man
  • transnewguinea.org, citing:
    • Daniel Shaw, The Bosavi language family (1986), Papers in New Guinea Linguistics 24 (45-76), Pacific linguistics A-70
    • G. Reesink Languages of the Aramia River Area (1976), Papers in New Guinea Linguistics No. 19
    • and Franklin and Voorhoeve (1973)
  • Bainapi wordlist, in Papers in New Guinea Linguistics (Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University), issue 24 (1990)

sau

  1. hundred
  • Fiji Hindi Dictionary
  • Moag, Rodney F. (1977) Fiji Hindi: A basic course and reference grammar, Canberra, Australia: Australian National University Press, →ISBN, page 55

sau

  1. Romanization of 𐍃𐌰𐌿

sau m (plural sāwā̀yē, possessed form san)

  1. foot
  2. footprint, trace
  3. time
  4. trip (travel)

sàu m (possessed form sàn)

  1. times (multiplication)

sau

  1. Clipping of sàkā (release) (used before an object).

sau

  1. Rōmaji transcription of さう

From Old Norse sauðr.

sau m (definite singular sauen, indefinite plural sauer, definite plural sauene)

  1. sheep
    Synonym: (literary) får
  2. (figurative) fool, moron, idiot
    Se på den sauen!Look at that idiot!

From Old Norse sauðr.

sau m (definite singular sauen, indefinite plural sauer or sauar, definite plural sauene or sauane)

  1. a sheep
    1. (uncountable) mutton
  2. (colloquial, derogatory) fool, moron, idiot
    Sjå på den sauen!Look at that idiot!

Inherited from Latin seu, a form of sīve, and perhaps influenced by Latin aut (Romanian au).

sau

  1. or
    Synonym: ori

sau

  1. fantail

sau

  1. (transitive) to gnaw
  2. (transitive) to bite

From Malay sahur, from Arabic سَحُور (saḥūr).

sau

  1. (Islam) the suhur
  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *krawʔ. Cognate with Muong khau, Mon တြဴ.

Attested in Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經) as (MC law) (modern SV: lao) and , alternative form (MC luw) (modern SV: lâu).

sau (, , , 𡢐, 𢖕, 𢖖, 𨍦)

  1. rear, hind, back
    hai chân sau của con chótwo hind legs of a dog
  2. next, subsequent

    Lần sau đi cửa trước.

    Next time, use the front door.

sau (, , , 𡢐, 𢖕, 𢖖, 𨍦)

  1. later
  2. afterwards

sau

  1. behind

    Sau nhà có vườn.

    Behind the house is a garden.
  2. after

From Proto-Chamic *ʔasɔw from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *asu, from Proto-Austronesian *asu. Cognate with Eastern Cham asau.

sau

  1. dog (animal)
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*asu”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

sau

  1. Alternative form of zee (to see)
  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 81

From Proto-Mixtec *sawiʔ.

sau

  1. rain
  • Beaty de Farris, Kathryn, et al. (2012) Diccionario básico del mixteco de Yosondúa, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 46)‎[1] (in Spanish), third edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 71

From Proto-Tai *saːwᴬ (unmarried woman). Cognate with Thai สาว (sǎao), Lao ສາວ (sāo), ᦉᦱᧁ (ṡaaw), Tai Nüa ᥔᥣᥝᥲ (sàaw), Shan သၢဝ် (sǎao), Ahom 𑜏𑜧 (saw), 𑜏𑜨𑜧 (sow), 𑜏𑜧𑜤 (sawu), 𑜏𑜧𑜈𑜫 (saww), or 𑜏𑜦𑜡 ().

sau (Sawndip forms or or 𡠻 or or 𫰴, 1957–1982 spelling sau)

  1. girl; young woman
  2. girlfriend

sau (1957–1982 spelling sau)

  1. beautiful; pretty; attractive