# सू
## Sanskrit
### Alternative forms

* सु (su), सव् (sav)

### Alternative scripts

* সূ (Assamese script)
* ᬲᬹ (Balinese script)
* সূ (Bengali script)
* 𑰭𑰳 (Bhaiksuki script)
* 𑀲𑀽 (Brahmi script)
* သူ (Burmese script)
* સૂ (Gujarati script)
* ਸੂ (Gurmukhi script)
* 𑌸𑍂 (Grantha script)
* ꦱꦹ (Javanese script)
* 𑂮𑂴 (Kaithi script)
* ಸೂ (Kannada script)
* សូ (Khmer script)
* ສູ (Lao script)
* സൂ (Malayalam script)
* ᠰᡠᡠ (Manchu script)
* 𑘭𑘴 (Modi script)
* ᠰᠤᠤ (Mongolian script)
* 𑧍𑧕 (Nandinagari script)
* 𑐳𑐹 (Newa script)
* ସୂ (Odia script)
* ꢱꢹ (Saurashtra script)
* 𑆱𑆷 (Sharada script)
* 𑖭𑖳 (Siddham script)
* සූ (Sinhalese script)
* 𑪁𑩒𑩛 (Soyombo script)
* 𑚨𑚱 (Takri script)
* ஸூ (Tamil script)
* సూ (Telugu script)
* สู (Thai script)
* སཱུ (Tibetan script)
* 𑒮𑒴 (Tirhuta script)
* 𑨰𑨃𑨊 (Zanabazar Square script)

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *suH-, from Proto-Indo-European *súHs, from *sewH- (“to give birth, to bear a child”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Vedic) IPA: /súː/
* (Classical Sanskrit) IPA: /s̪uː/

#### Root

सू • (sū)
* to beget, procreate, bring forth, bear, produce, yield

##### Derived terms

* सूत (sūta)
* सूनु (sūnu)
* सूतिका (sūtikā)
* सूतिकागार (sūtikāgāra)
* सूतिकागृह (sūtikāgṛha)
* प्रसू (prasū)
* प्रसूति (prasūti)
* प्रसव (prasava)
* सूते (sūte)
* सुवे (suve)
* असूत (asūta)
* सूयते (sūyate)
* ससूव (sasūva)
* सुषुवे (suṣuve)
* सुसाव (susāva)
* असुषोत् (asuṣot)
* असोष्ट (asoṣṭa)
* असौषीत् (asauṣīt)
* असविष्ट (asaviṣṭa)
* सोता (sotā)
* सविता (savitā)
* सोष्यति (soṣyati)
* सोष्यते (soṣyate)
* सविष्यति (saviṣyati)
* सविष्यते (saviṣyate)
* सूष्यन्ती (sūṣyantī)
* सोष्यन्ती (soṣyantī)
* सूतवे (sūtave)
* सूतवै (sūtavai)
* सवितवे (savitave)
* सोतुम् (sotum)
* सवितुम् (savitum)
* सूत्वा (sūtvā)
* असावि (asāvi)
* सावयति (sāvayati)

#### Adjective

सू • (sū́) stem
* (mostly at end of compounds) begetting, procreating, bringing forth, producing
** c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda

##### Declension
#### Noun

सू • (sū́) stem, m or f
* one who begets
** a mother
** a father
** c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda
* childbearing, parturition

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *sawH-, from Proto-Indo-European *sewH- (“to push (forth)”). Cognate with Hittite [script needed] (šu-ú-iz-zi, “to push (away), shove, cast off”), Old Irish soïd (“to turn”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Vedic) IPA: /suː/
* (Classical Sanskrit) IPA: /s̪uː/

#### Root

सू • (sū)
* to set in motion, urge, impel, vivify, create, produce
* to hurl upon
* to grant, bestow
* to appoint or consecrate to
* to allow, authorise
* to urge or impel violently
* to beget, procreate, bring forth, bear, produce, yield
* to be begotten or brought forth

##### Derived terms

* असावीत् (asāvīt)
* उत्सू (utsū)
* सवति (savati)
* साविषत् (sāviṣat)
* सुवति (suvati)
* सुवते (suvate)
* सुषुवाण (suṣuvāṇa)
* सुषुवे (suṣuve)
* सूयते (sūyate)
* सोषवीति (soṣavīti)

### References

* Monier Williams (1899) “सू”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 1239/3, 1240/1-2.
* William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 188
* ↑ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 714-5
* ↑ Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, pages 452-3
* ↑ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 715-6
* ↑ Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, page 453