शू

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from English shoe.

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ʃuː/

Noun

शू • (śū) m (Urdu spelling شو)

1. shoe

Declension

Declension of शू (masc ū-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	शू śū	शू śū
oblique	शू śū	शुओं śuõ
vocative	शू śū	शुओ śuo

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

• श्वि (śvi), शव् (śav)

Alternative scripts

Alternative scripts

• শূ (Assamese script)
• ᬰᬹ (Balinese script)
• শূ (Bengali script)
• 𑰫𑰳 (Bhaiksuki script)
• 𑀰𑀽 (Brahmi script)
• ၐူ (Burmese script)
• શૂ (Gujarati script)
• ਸ਼ੂ (Gurmukhi script)
• 𑌶𑍂 (Grantha script)
• ꦯꦹ (Javanese script)
• 𑂬𑂴 (Kaithi script)
• ಶೂ (Kannada script)
• ឝូ (Khmer script)
• ຨູ (Lao script)
• ശൂ (Malayalam script)
• ᡧᡠᡠ (Manchu script)
• 𑘫𑘴 (Modi script)
• ᠱᠤᠤ (Mongolian script)
• 𑧋𑧕 (Nandinagari script)
• 𑐱𑐹 (Newa script)
• ଶୂ (Odia script)
• ꢯꢹ (Saurashtra script)
• 𑆯𑆷 (Sharada script)
• 𑖫𑖳 (Siddham script)
• ශූ (Sinhalese script)
• 𑩿𑩒𑩛 (Soyombo script)
• 𑚧𑚱 (Takri script)
• ஶூ (Tamil script)
• శూ (Telugu script)
• ศู (Thai script)
• ཤཱུ (Tibetan script)
• 𑒬𑒴 (Tirhuta script)
• 𑨮𑨃𑨊 (Zanabazar Square script)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- (“to swell”).

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɕuː/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ɕuː/

Root

शू • (śū)

1. to swell

Derived terms

Sanskrit terms belonging to the root शू (0 c, 6 e)

Terms derived from the Sanskrit root शू (4 c, 0 e)

Primary Verbal Forms

• श्वयति (śváyati, Present)
• अश्वत् (áśvat, Aorist)
• शुशाव (śuśāva, Perfect)
• शूशाव (śūśāva, Perfect)
• शिश्वाय (śiśvāya, Perfect)

Non-Finite Forms

• शून (śūná, Past Participle)
• श्वयितुम् (śváyitum, Infinitive)
• शूषणि (śūṣáṇi, Infinitive)

Derived Nominal Forms

• शवस् (śávas, “strength”)
• शाव (śāva)
• शिशु (śíśu)
• शून्य (śūnyá, “hollow, void, empty”)
• शूर (śū́ra)

References

• William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 175
• Monier Williams (1899) “श्वि”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1106, column 2.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) “ŚAV^I”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 623-4