sov
English
Etymology
Shortened from sovereign.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɒv
Noun
sov (plural sovs)
- (British, slang) Pound sterling.
- That car of his has got to be worth a few sovs.
- (British, slang) A sovereign (former gold coin).
Synonyms
- (pound sterling)
- (standard English) pound, pound sterling
- (slang) nicker, quid
Azerbaijani
Further reading
- “sov” in Obastan.com.
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /soːv/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -oːv
White Hmong
Etymology
From Proto-Hmong-Mien *sji̯ouX (“warm”), borrowed from Middle Chinese 暑 (MC syoX, “hot, sultry”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʂɒ˧˦/
Adjective
sov
References
- Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 270; 282.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25
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