салуу

Buryat

Comparison
Mongolian [Term?]
Buryat салуу (saluu)
Kalmyk [Term?]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sa.lʊ/, [sa.lo̙]
  • Hyphenation: са‧луу

Adjective

салуу • (saluu)

  1. spacious

Kyrgyz

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *sal- (to put, throw, drop, lower).

Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (sal-, to let go, free, lower), Old Uyghur [script needed] (sal-, to swing) Azerbaijani salmaq (to drop, lower), Bashkir һалыу (halıw, to put), Crimean Tatar salmaq (to put), Chuvash сулма (sulma, to swing, throw, put, impose), Turkish salmak, Turkmen salmak (to put, place), Tuvan салыр (salır, to put, place, let go), Uzbek solmoq.

Verb

салуу • (saluu) (Arabic spelling سالۇۇ)

  1. to put, to lay (down); to move (something) (somewhere)
    Атка чөп салып кой.
    Atka cöp salıp koy.
    Give the horse some hay.
    Барсак, эт салып берди.
    Barsak, et salıp berdi.
    When we arrived, he made us some meat (put the meat in the pot).
    төшөк салуу
    töşök saluu
    to make the bed