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son

Translingual

Symbol

son

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Songhay languages.

Alternative forms

• sonne (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (offspring, beget) IPA^(key): /sʌn/
• (Spanish borrowing) IPA^(key): /sɒn/
• Rhymes: -ʌn, -ɒn
• Homophone: sun

Etymology 1

From Middle English sonn, sone, sun, sune, from Old English sunu (“son”), from Proto-Germanic *sunuz (“son”), from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús (“son”), from Proto-Indo-European *sewH- (“to bear; give birth”).

Noun

son (plural sons)

1. One's male offspring.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:son
2. A male adopted person in relation to his adoptive parents.
3. A male person who has such a close relationship with an older or otherwise more authoritative person that he can be regarded as a son of the other person.
4. A male person considered to have been significantly shaped by social conflict.

5. A person regarded as the product of some place.
6. A familiar address to a male person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.
7. (UK, New York City, colloquial) An informal address to a friend or person of equal authority.
8. (computing) The current version of a file, derived from the preceding father file.

Antonyms

• (with regards to gender) daughter
• (with regards to ancestry) father, mother, parent

Hypernyms

• child

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English sonen, sunen, from the noun (see above).

Verb

son (third-person singular simple present sons, present participle sonning, simple past and past participle sonned)

1. (transitive) To produce (i.e. bear, father, beget) a son.
2. (transitive) To address (someone) as "son".

Etymology 3

From Spanish son (literally “tone, sound”).

Noun

son (uncountable)

2. (music) Son cubano, a genre of music and dance blending Spanish and African elements that originated in Cuba during the late 19th century.

Further reading

• son on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• son cubano on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• NOS, NSO, Nos, Nos., ONS, nos, nos., ons

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch zon, from Middle Dutch sonne, from Old Dutch sunna, from Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂un-, *sóh₂wl̥.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔn/

Proper noun

son

1. Sun, sun (star of the solar system)

Derived terms

• middernagson
• sonbril
• Sondag
• sonlig
• sonneblom
• sonnestelsel
• sonnig
• sonpaneel
• sonskyn

Aromanian

Etymology

From Latin sonus. Compare Daco-Romanian sun.

Noun

son n (plural sonuri)

1. sound

Related terms

• asun

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin sunt.

Verb

son

1. third-person plural present indicative of ser

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *soŋ (“back, end”). Compare Turkish son below.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [son]

Noun

son (definite accusative sonu, plural sonlar)

1. end, ending

   Synonym: axır

   Antonym: baş

   sonda isə başa düşdük ki... ― but at the end we understood that...

   Filmin sonunda əsas personaj ölür. ― The main character dies at the end of the movie.

Declension

Derived terms

Adjective

son

1. recent, latest
2. last, final

   Synonym: axırıncı

   ötən əsrin son onilliyi ― last decade of the previous century

References

Catalan

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Catalan son, from Vulgar Latin sum, reduced form of Latin suum, accusative of suus, from Proto-Italic *sowos. Compare Occitan and French son.

In unstressed position in Vulgar Latin suum, suam etc. were monosyllabic and regularly became son, sa etc. in Catalan. When stressed they were disyllabic and became seu, sua > seua etc.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /sun/ (always unstressed)
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /son/ (always unstressed)

Determiner

son m (feminine sa, masculine plural sos, feminine plural ses)

1. his, her, its
2. their
3. your (alluding to vostè or vostès)

Usage notes

• The use of son and the other possessive determiners is mostly archaic in the majority of dialects, with articulated possessive pronouns (e.g. el meu) mostly being used in their stead. However, mon, ton, and son are still widely used before certain nouns referring to family members and some affective nouns, such as amic, casa, and vida. Which nouns actually find use with the possessive determiners depends greatly on the locale.

The standard masculine plural form is sos, but sons can be found in some dialects.

In Algherese, son and its forms mainly give reference to vostè.

See also

• seu
• llur
• vostre

References

El Català de l'Alguer : un model d'àmbit restringit, Barcelona, 2003, →ISBN, page 31

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Catalan son, from Latin somnus, from Proto-Indo-European *swépnos. Feminine noun by analogy with fam (“hunger”) and set (“thirst”).

Alternative forms

• so (Balearic)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈsɔn]

Noun

son m (plural sons)

1. sleep

Noun

son f (uncountable)

1. sleepiness

   Synonym: somnolència

Derived terms

• malson

Related terms

• somni

References

• “son” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “son” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Verb

son

1. imperative of sone

Faroese

Noun

son

1. indefinite accusative singular of sonur

Finnish

Contraction

son

1. (colloquial) Contraction of se on (“it is”).

French

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French son, suen, suon, from Latin sonus (the current form may be remade after or influenced by sonner).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔ̃/
• Homophones: sons, sont

Noun

son m (plural sons)

1. sound

Derived terms

Related terms

• sonner
• sonore

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle French son, from Old French son, from Vulgar Latin sum, a reduced/atonic variant of suus, suum, from Proto-Italic *sowos, from Proto-Indo-European *sewos, from *swé (“self”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔ̃/, (before a vowel) /sɔ̃.n‿/, /sɔ.n‿/

Determiner

son m (feminine sa, plural ses)

1. (possessive) his, her, their, its (used to qualify masculine nouns and before a vowel)

Usage notes

Son is used before all singular nouns beginning with a vowel or a mute H, even those that are feminine. However, sa is used with singular feminine nouns beginning with a consonant or an aspirated H.

Derived terms

• sondit

Related terms

¹ Also used before feminine adjectives and nouns beginning with a vowel or mute h.

² Also used as the polite singular form.

Etymology 3

Inherited from Latin secundus (presumably through an earlier Old French form *seon; compare an attested Medieval Latin seonno, seonnum). Cognate with Catalan segó, Old Occitan segon. The meaning derives from the fact that bran results from a second sifting of flour. Doublet of second, a borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔ̃/

Noun

son m (plural sons)

1. bran

Further reading

• “son”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• nos

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoŋ/ [ˈs̺oŋ]
• Rhymes: -oŋ
• Hyphenation: son

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese sõo, son (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria, probably influenced by or possibly borrowed from Old Occitan son), from Latin sonus. Alternatively, regressively derived from the verb soar. Compare Portuguese som, Spanish son.

Alternative forms

• som (reintegrationist)

Noun

son m (plural sons)

1. sound

Related terms

• soar
• sónico
• sonoro

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• som (reintegrationist)
• são (reintegrationist)

Verb

son

1. inflection of ser:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. third-person plural present indicative

   Son parvo ― I'm stupid

   Son parvos ― They're stupid

References

• “son” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “soon” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “son” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “son” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “son” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

German

Pronunciation

Pronoun

son

1. Alternative form of so'n
   • 1857, Der Glücksstern. Novelle von Julie Burow (Frau Pfannenschmidt), Bromberg, page 95:

Further reading

• “son” in Duden online
• “son” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Icelandic

Noun

son

1. indefinite accusative singular of sonur

Irish

Noun

son

1. Only used in ar son

Istriot

Verb

son

1. first-person singular present indicative of ièsi
2. second-person singular present indicative of ièsi

Japanese

Romanization

son

1. Rōmaji transcription of そん

Ladin

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• sun

Verb

son

1. first-person singular present indicative of ester

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• sun
• sion

Verb

son

1. third-person singular present indicative of ester

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sɔn]

Noun

son m animal

1. (archaic) swan (waterfowl of genus Cygnus)

Declension

Synonyms

• kołp
• šwon

Manx

Alternative forms

• er son

Etymology

A contraction of er son, from Middle Irish ar son of unknown etymology. Cognate to Irish ar son and Scottish Gaelic airson; see the Irish entry for further etymology.

Preposition

son

1. for

2. by

3. (used with verbal noun) want

Usage notes

Not used with pronouns. See er son for inflected forms.

Derived terms

• cre hon (“for what purpose?”)
• son shickyrys (“for certain”)

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

son

1. Alternative form of sonne (“sun”)

Etymology 2

Noun

son

1. Alternative form of sone (“son”)

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French son.

Noun

son m (plural sons)

1. sound

Descendants

• French: son

Mirandese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsõ/

Verb

son

1. third-person plural present of ser

Northern Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *sonë.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

son

1. he, she, it

Inflection

See also

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[5], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse sonr, from Proto-Germanic *sunuz, from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [so̞ːn]

Noun

son m (definite singular sonen, indefinite plural søner, definite plural sønene)

1. a son

Derived terms

• steson

Related terms

Male given names:

References

• “son” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Etymology 1

Determiner

son m sg (feminine singular sa, masculine plural sos, feminine plural sas)

1. his; her; its

   Synonyms: seu, sieu

Etymology 2

Verb

son

1. third-person plural present indicative of èsser

Old English

Etymology

From Latin sonus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /soːn/

Noun

sōn m

1. a musical sound; vocal, instrumental

Derived terms

• sōncræft

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “sōn”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[6], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Old French

Alternative forms

• soun (Anglo-Norman)
• sun (Anglo-Norman)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin sum, a reduced/atonic variant of Latin suum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sun/
• Rhymes: -on

Determiner

son m (feminine sa, plural ses)

1. his/hers/its (third-person singular possessive)

Descendants

• Middle French: son
  • French: son

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sān (“immediately”). Cognates include Old English sōna, Old Saxon sān and Old Dutch *sān.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔːn/

Adverb

sōn

1. soon

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

Old Irish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin sonus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /son/

Noun

son m

1. sound

Inflection

Etymology 2

Pronoun

son

1. Alternative spelling of són

Mutation

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “son”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old Norse

Noun

son

1. accusative singular of sonr

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• sun

Etymology

From Old Norse sonr, from Proto-Germanic *sunuz.

Noun

son m

1. son

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: son

Scots

Etymology

From Old English sunu (“son”), from Proto-Germanic *sunuz (“son”), from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús (“son”), from *sewH- (“to bear, give birth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sɪn]

Noun

son (plural sons)

1. son, male child

Derived terms

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

son m (indeclinable)

1. sake, account

Usage notes

Note that a grammaticalised unit meaning ‘for’ is formed by a prepositional phrase combining the preposition air / ar with a nominal or pronominal argument and son. (These structures are sometimes called ‘compound prepositions’.)

Derived terms

• airson, carson

Preposition

son (+ genitive)

1. Colloquial form of airson.

Alternative forms

• 'son

Skolt Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *sonë.

Pronoun

son

1. he, she, it

Inflection

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[7], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈson/ [ˈsõn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: son

Etymology 1

From Latin sonus, probably through the intermediate of Old Occitan son (or influenced by it); alternatively, but less likely, regressively derived from the verb sonar (the more expected form is sueno that appeared in some Medieval texts). Compare English sound and Portuguese som.

Noun

son m (plural sones)

1. tone (pleasant sound)
2. (music, genre, uncountable) son (Afro-Cuban musical form)

   Synonym: son cubano

3. (music) musical composition in this form

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

son

1. third-person plural present indicative of ser

Further reading

• “son”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• son on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es
• son cubano on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

References

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English Sun (from Middle English sunne, from Old English sunne (“sun; the Sun”)) or Dutch zon (from Middle Dutch sonne (“sun”), from Old Dutch sunna), both from Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂un-, *sóh₂wl̥.

Noun

son

1. Sun

Derived terms

• sonde

Descendants

• → Saramaccan: sónu

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish son, sun, from Old Norse sonr, sunr from Proto-Germanic *sunuz, from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús. Masculine in Late Modern Swedish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /soːn/
• Rhymes: -oːn

Noun

son c

1. a son

   Antonym: dotter

Declension

Related terms

• -son (see there for more derivations)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

son

1. definite singular of so

References

• son in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• son in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• nos, ons, sno

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish صوڭ (soŋ, “end, consequence”), from Proto-Turkic *soŋ (“back, end, after”).

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (soŋ, “after; late”); Tatar, Kazakh, Kyrgyz соң (soñ), Southern Altai соҥ (soŋ), Uzbek so'ng (“after”), Yakut онтон (onton, “then”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

son

1. last, final

   Antonym: ilk

Noun

son (definite accusative sonu, plural sonlar)

1. end, ending

   sona erdirmek ― bring to an end, put an end to

2. consequence, result, conclusion

Declension

Related terms

• sonra
• sonlu
• sonsuz
• sonuç
• sonlanmak

Uzbek

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

son (plural sonlar)

1. thigh

Venetian

Verb

son

1. first-person singular present indicative of èser

Vietnamese

Etymology

This word had initial *k-r- in Old Vietnamese.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [sɔn˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʂɔŋ˧˧] ~ [sɔŋ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʂɔŋ˧˧] ~ [sɔŋ˧˧]

Adjective

son • (侖, 倫, 崙, 󱏟, 󰅬, 𣗾, 𣘈, 𪳔, 𧹪, 𪿽, 󱠟)

1. vermilion

   rệp son ― a cochineal

2. (literary) unshakable; firm

Noun

(classifier thỏi, cây (“lipstick”)) son • (侖, 倫, 崙, 󱏟, 󰅬, 𣗾, 𣘈, 𪳔, 𧹪, 𪿽, 󱠟)

1. red cosmetic
2. (by extension) lipstick

See also

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [son]

Noun

son (nominative plural sons)

1. son

Declension

Synonyms

• hicil

Hypernyms

• cil

Coordinate terms

• daut
• jicil

Derived terms

• leson
• lüson
• posson
• sonef
• sonik
• soniko
• sono

See also

• famül
• fat
• ledaut
• mot
• pal
• palik
• poscil
• posdaut

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *soːlᴬ (“to teach”). Cognate with Thai สอน (sɔ̌ɔn), Northern Thai ᩈᩬᩁ, Lao ສອນ (sǭn), Lü ᦉᦸᧃ (ṡoan), Tai Dam ꪎꪮꪙ, Shan သွၼ် (sǎun), Tai Nüa ᥔᥩᥢᥴ (sóan), Ahom 𑜏𑜨𑜃𑜫 (son).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /θoːn˨˦/
• Tone numbers: son¹
• Hyphenation: son

Verb

son (1957–1982 spelling son)

1. to teach

Source: wiktionary.org