As a Hindi name
सू · adj
उत्पन्न करने या पैदा करनेवाला । (समासांत में प्रयुक्त) । जैसे, बीरसू — Śabdasāgara
सू · noun · feminine
ओर । तरफ । दिशा — Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "सू" is स + -ऊ: स means "the thirty-second consonant in Hindi", and the suffix -ऊ forms 'belonging to', 'tending to' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(8) — cited from the extracted rule table
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
begetting, procreating, bringing forth, producing (mostly ifc.; see a-, ambhaḥ-, karṇa-sū &c.)
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Gender counterpart
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Dictionary citations
1. sū (not separable in all forms fr. √ 2. sū; cf. 1. su-ṣū, asu-sū, and √ 4. su) cl. 6. P. (Dhātup. xxviii, 115) suvati (in Br. also ˚te, and accord. to Dhātup. xxii, 43 and xxiv, 32 also savati and -sauti; pf. suṣuve, AV.; p. suṣuvāṇa, q.v.; aor. asāvīt, sāviṣat, RV. : Pass. sūyate, Br. &c.), to set in motion, urge, impel, vivify, create, produce, RV. &c. &c.; to hurl upon, Bhaṭṭ.; to grant, bestow (esp. said of Savitṛ), RV.; to appoint or consecrate to (Ā. ‘to let one's self be consecrated’), AV.; TS.; to allow, authorize, ŚBr. : Intens. soṣavīti, to urge or impel violently (said of Savitṛ), RV.
2. sū (cf. 1. sū and √ 5. su) cl. 2. Ā. (Dhātup. xxiv, 21) sūte (1. sg. pr. suve, 3. sg. impf. asūta; in later language also sūyate [xxvi, 31] and in comp. with pra also -savati and -sauti [cf. xxiv, 31]; pf. sasūva, RV.; suṣuve, AV. &c.; susāva, MBh. &c.; aor. asuṣot, MaitrS.; ˚ṣavuḥ, TBr.; asoṣṭa, ChUp.; asauṣīt and asaviṣṭa Gr.; fut. sotā, savitā, ib.; soṣyati, ˚te, Br. &c.; saviṣyati, ˚te, MBh. &c.; p. f. sūṣyantī, RV.; soṣyantī [s.v.] ŚBr. ; inf. sūtave, RV.; sūtavai, AV.; savitave, ib.; sotum or savitum Gr.; ind.p. sūtvā, Br.; -sūya, MBh. &c.; -sutya, ŚBr.), to beget, procreate, bring forth, bear, produce, yield, RV. &c. &c.: Pass. sūyate (aor. asāvi), to be begotten or brought forth, MBh.; Kāv. &c.: Caus. sāvayati Gr.: Desid. susūṣati, ib.
3. sū mfn. begetting, procreating, bringing forth, producing (mostly ifc.; see a-, ambhaḥ-, karṇa-sū &c.)
sū m. one who begets, a father, RV.; VS.
a mother, RV. i, 32, 9
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