စော

See also: စာ, စီး, စို, စား, and စ

Burmese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔ́/
• Romanization: MLCTS: cau: • ALA-LC: co • BGN/PCGN: saw: • Okell: sò

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Burmese စဝ် (saw).

Verb

စော • (cau:)

1. to be early (at a time in advance of the usual), be ahead of time, premature
2. to be eager, intent

Derived terms

• ကောက်စော (kaukcau:)
• စိတ်စော (citcau:)
• စောစော (cau:cau:)
• စောစောစီးစီး (cau:cau:ci:ci:)
• ဆန္ဒစော (hcanda.cau:)
• မယ်စော (maicau:)
• အာရုံစော (arumcau:)

 

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Burmese စဝ် (saw), itself probably borrowed from Shan ၸဝ်ႈ (tsāo). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Adjective

စော • (cau:)

1. illustrious, honorable, holy

Noun

စော • (cau:)

1. (archaic) lord, chief, leader, prince
2. (honorific) a title used by Burmese, Arakanese and Shan royalty

Derived terms

• ကျော်စော (kyaucau:)
• စောထီး (cau:hti:)
• ရှင်စော (hrangcau:)
• အကျော်တစော (a.kyauta.cau:)

 

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Doesn't seem to be mentioned by STEDT or Luce 1981. Related to the "eager" sense of Etymology 1?”)

Verb

စော • (cau:)

1. to contemplate, consider

Derived terms

• စောကြော (cau:krau:)

 

Further reading

• “စော” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.