sud

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sud"

English

Etymology

From a variation of sod, itself a shortening of sodden. Related to seethe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʌd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ʌd

Noun

sud (plural suds)

1. (informal) A bubble of lather or foam (the singular of suds).
   • 2018, Derek B. Miller, American By Day, page 114:

     There is a beer sud parked on her upper lip.

Derived terms

• soapsud
• sudded

Anagrams

• 'uds, DSU, DUs, UDS, USD, us'd

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• Sud

Etymology

Borrowed from French sud. Compare Romanian sud.

Noun

sud

1. south

See also

• datã / Datã
• vestu / Vestu, ascãpitatã
• nordu / Nordu, njadzã-noapti
• not / Not

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French sud, from Old English sūþ, from Proto-Germanic *sunþrą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈsut]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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Noun

sud m (uncountable)

1. south

   Synonyms: migdia, migjorn

   Antonym: nord

   al sud de Londres

   south of London

See also

compass points: punts cardinals:  ^[edit]

nord-oest nord-occidental	nord septentrional	nord-est nord-oriental
oest occidental		est oriental
sud-oest sud-occidental	sud meridional	sud-est sud-oriental

Further reading

• “sud”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “sud”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “sud” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “sud”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Corsican

U sud.

Alternative forms

• sudu

Etymology

Borrowed from French sud. Cognates include Italian sud and Spanish sur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsud/
• Hyphenation: sud

Noun

sud m (uncountable)

1. south

References

• “sud, sudu” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Czech

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *som-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *somdʰh₁os

Proto-Balto-Slavic *sámdas

Proto-Slavic *sǫdъ

Old Czech sud

Czech sud

Inherited from Old Czech sud, from Proto-Slavic *sǫdъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsut]

• Audio:

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Noun

sud m inan (diminutive soudek)

1. barrel
2. keg party

Declension

Declension of sud (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	sud	sudy
genitive	sudu	sudů
dative	sudu	sudům
accusative	sud	sudy
vocative	sude	sudy
locative	sudě, sudu	sudech
instrumental	sudem	sudy

Derived terms

• soudek

Related terms

• soud
• soudit
• sudý

Further reading

• “sud”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “sud”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “sud”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French sud, su, from Old French su(d), borrowed from Old English sūþ (“south”), which see. The English (rather than Dutch or Norse) origin of the French compass points is evidenced by the vowel in est.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syd/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

sud m (invariable)

1. south

   Synonym: midi

   Antonym: nord

Coordinate terms

compass points: points cardinaux:  ^[edit]

nord-ouest	nord septentrion	nord-est
ouest couchant ponant occident		est levant orient
sud-ouest	sud midi méridien	sud-est

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: sid
• ⇒ Mauritian Creole: lesid

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• dus

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sud, from Old English sūþ, from Proto-Germanic *sunþrą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsud/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ud
• Hyphenation: sùd

Noun

sud m (invariable)

1. south

   Synonyms: meridione, mezzogiorno

   Antonym: nord

Coordinate terms

compass points (Germanic-origin): punti cardinali:  ^[edit]

nordovest	nord	nordest
ovest		est
sudovest	sud	sudest

Derived terms

• sud-
• sud-sud-est
• sud-sud-ovest
• sudest, sud-est
• sudista
• sudovest, sud-ovest

Middle French

Alternative forms

• su

Etymology

From Old French nort, from Old English suþ.

Noun

sud m

1. south

Descendants

• French: sud

Norman

Alternative forms

• su (continental Normandy)

Etymology

From Old French sud, su (“south”), from Old English sūþ, from Proto-Germanic *sunþrą.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Jersey):

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Noun

sud m (invariable)

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) south
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[1], page 539:

     Grànd maïr ou morte iaue,
     La lune au sud, il est basse iaue.

     Whether it be spring tides or neap tides, when the moon is due south it will be low water.

Occitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsyt/

• Audio (Béarn):

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Noun

sud m (uncountable)

1. south

   Antonym: nòrd

Further reading

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006), Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎^[2], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 935

Old Czech

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *som-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *somdʰh₁os

Proto-Balto-Slavic *sámdas

Proto-Slavic *sǫdъ

Old Czech sud

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sǫdъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈsud/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈsut/

Noun

sud m inan

1. barrel

Declension

Declension of sud (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	sud	sudy	sudi, sudové
genitive	suda, sudu	sudú	sudóv
dative	sudu	sudoma	sudóm
accusative	sud	sudy	sudy
vocative	sude	sudy	sudi, sudové
locative	sudě, sudu	sudú	sudiech
instrumental	sudem	sudoma	sudy

This table shows the most common forms around the 13th century.

Derived terms

• osudie

Descendants

• Czech: sud

Further reading

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916), “sud”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Romanian

Alternative forms

• суд (sud) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

Borrowed from French sud.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sud/
• Rhymes: -ud
• Hyphenation: sud

Noun

sud n (uncountable)

1. south

   Synonym: (archaic, poetic) miazăzi

   Antonym: nord

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	sud	sudul
genitive-dative	sud	sudului
vocative	sudule

Coordinate terms

compass points (French/Germanic origin): puncte cardinale:  ^[edit]

nord-vest	nord	nord-est
vest		est
sud-vest	sud	sud-est

Further reading

• “sud”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sǫdъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sûːd/

Noun

sȗd m inan (Cyrillic spelling су̑д)

1. court
2. courthouse
3. tribunal
4. judgment

Declension

Declension of sud

	singular	plural
nominative	sȗd	sȕdovi
genitive	súda	sudova
dative	sudu	sudovima
accusative	sud	sudove
vocative	sude	sudovi
locative	sudu	sudovima
instrumental	sudom	sudovima

Related terms

nouns

• sudac
• sudija
• sudnica

Further reading

• “sud”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sǫdъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sûːd/

Noun

sȗd m inan (Cyrillic spelling су̑д)

1. (regional) vessel
2. (Serbia) dish

Declension

Declension of sud

	singular	plural
nominative	sȗd	sȕdovi/sudi
genitive	suda	sudova/suda
dative	sudu	sudovima/sudima
accusative	sud	sudove/sude
vocative	sude	sudovi/sudi
locative	sudu	sudovima/sudima
instrumental	sudom	sudovima/sudima

Further reading

• “sud”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French sud.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsud/ [ˈsuð̞]
• Rhymes: -ud
• Syllabification: sud

Noun

sud m (uncountable)

1. (Latin America) south

   Synonym: (more common) sur

Further reading

• “sud”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Sumerian

Romanization

sud

1. romanization of 𒋤 (sud)

Uzbek

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *som-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *somdʰh₁os

Proto-Balto-Slavic *sámdas

Proto-Slavic *sǫdъ

Old East Slavic сѫдъ (sǫdŭ)

Russian суд (sud)bor.

Uzbek sud

Borrowed from Russian суд (sud).

Noun

sud

1. court