susu

Possibly from West African Igbo isusu / esusu (“pooling the funds”) or Yoruba esúsú (“revolving loan fund”).^[1]

susu (plural susus)

1. (finance) An informal money pooling scheme practised in Africa, the Caribbean, and some immigrant communities.

   Hypernym: ROSCA

   • 2004, Mr. Rodolphe Blavy, Mr. Anupam Basu, Dr. Murat  Yülek, Microfinance in Africa: Experience and Lessons From Selected African Countries, International Monetary Fund, →ISBN, page 9:

     The informal credit sector has been very active in Ghana and covers a range of activities known as susu, including individual savings […]

   • 2011, Tamara Mose Brown, Raising Brooklyn: Nannies, Childcare, and Caribbeans Creating Community, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 128:

     Irene empathized with her susu members as immigrants who were earning low wages in New York, but there appeared to be some socioeconomic advantages to being an organizer that she was not acknowledging.

• Susu (informal loan club) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *susu, from Proto-Austronesian *susu.

susu

1. (anatomy) breast

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

From Pre-Chamorro *sus, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *susu, from Proto-Austronesian *susu.

susu

1. (anatomy) breast

susu

1. idea
2. thought

susu

1. to think

Reduplication of sueur with clipping.

• IPA^(key): /sy.sy/

susu m (plural susus)

1. (colloquial) sweat

From Portuguese sujo. Cognate with Kabuverdianu suja.

susu

1. dirty

From Malay susu, from Proto-Malayic *susu(ʔ) (“breast”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *susu, from Proto-Austronesian *susu. The current sense of "milk" is developed from "breast" (commonly displaced by payudara) → "breast milk" (now replaced by the specific term air susu ibu, literally "mother's milk water") → "milk" (generalized to all types of milk).

• IPA^(key): [ˈsusu]
• Hyphenation: su‧su

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susu (first-person possessive susuku, second-person possessive susumu, third-person possessive susunya)

1. (uncountable) milk:

   Aku minum segelas susu setiap hari. ― I drink a glass of milk every day.

   1. a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young. From certain animals, especially cows, it is also called dairy milk and is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt.
   2. a white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, and/or soy beans. Also called non-dairy milk.
2. (countable) breast
   1. (now colloquial, vulgar) two organs on the front of a female chest.

      Kecil sekali susunya! ― (Those are) very small breasts!

   2. the analogous organs in other animals.

• (milk): air susu
• (woman breasts): buah dada, tetek, payudara

susu

1. to breastfeed

   Ibu itu sedang menyusui anaknya.

   The mother is breastfeeding her son.

• “susu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *susu.

susu

1. breast

susu

1. Rōmaji transcription of すす

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *susu, from Proto-Austronesian *susu.

susu

1. (uncountable) milk

   Aku ngombe sagelas susu saben dina.

   I drink a glass of milk every day.

2. (colloquial, vulgar) breasts (of a woman)

   Cilik banget susune!

   So small, her breasts are!

• (woman breasts): tetek, prembayun, tetya.
• (milk): santên.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *susu, from Proto-Austronesian *susu. Compare Indonesian susu, Tagalog suso, Fijian sucu, Tongan huhu and Hawaiian ū.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsusu/ [ˈsuː.su]
• Hyphenation: su‧su

súsu

1. breast
2. baby bottle

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *susuq. Compare Ilocano soso, Tagalog suso, Cebuano suso, Old Javanese susuh, and Balinese susuh.

• IPA^(key): /sʊˈsuʔ/ [sʊˈsuʔ]
• Hyphenation: su‧su

susû

1. snail

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *susu, from Proto-Austronesian *susu. Compare Laboya huhhu (“milk”).

susu

1. (anatomy) female breast

• Rina, A. Dj., Kabba, John Lado B. (2011) “susu”, in Kamus Bahasa Lamboya, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat [Dictionary of Lamboya Language, West Sumba Regency], Waikabubak: Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat, page 89

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *susu, from Proto-Austronesian *susu. Compare Indonesian susu, Tagalog suso, Fijian sucu, Tongan huhu and Hawaiian ū.

susu

1. (anatomy) breast

From Proto-Malayic *susu(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *susu, from Proto-Austronesian *susu.

• IPA^(key): /susu/
• Rhymes: -usu, -su, -u

susu (Jawi spelling سوسو, informal 1st possessive susuku, 2nd possessive susumu, 3rd possessive susunya)

1. (uncountable) milk
2. (less used) breast (female organ)

• (milk): air susu
• (breast): payudara, tetek, buah dada

• Indonesian: susu
• → Petjo: soesoe
• → Tok Pisin: susu

susu

1. to breastfeed

• Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “سوسو soesoe”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 58
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “سوسو susu”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 420
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “susu”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 507

• “susu” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuː.su/

susu

1. second-person plural imperative of sies

susu

1. Romanization of ᠰᡠᠰᡠ

Borrowed from Oceanic, from Proto-Oceanic *susu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *susu, from Proto-Austronesian *susu. Palauan regularly has the sound change *s > t, found in tut.

susu

1. (anatomy) female breast
2. milk

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *susu, from Proto-Austronesian *susu.

susu

1. milk

Inherited from Latin sūsum.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsuːzu]

susu

1. up

   Antonym: giosso

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1612: “salite lassù!” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “súṡu”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg

Inherited from Latin sūsum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsusu/
• Hyphenation: sù‧su

susu

1. up

   Antonym: jusu

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1612: “salite lassù!” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Traina, Antonino (1868) “susu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 4185

Probably a reduplication of English shoe.

susu

1. shoe

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *susu, from Proto-Austronesian *susu.

susu

1. (anatomy) breast

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *susu, compare Malay susu.

susu

1. to suck

From Malay susu, from Proto-Malayic *susu(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *susu, from Proto-Austronesian *susu.

susu

1. milk
2. (anatomy) breast

• banis bilong susu

• susuim (“suck”)

• melek

From Malay susu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈs̪u.s̪u/

susu

1. breast

susu

1. (transitive) to suckle

Conjugation of susu (action verb)
		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		tosusu	mosusu	asusu
2nd person		nosusu	fosusu
3rd person	inanimate	isusu	dosusu
	animate
imperative		nususu, susu	fususu, susu

• James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎^[2], Pacific linguistics
• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[3], Pacific linguistics

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *susu, from Proto-Austronesian *susu.

susu

1. breast

• pasusu (“to breastfeed”)

Variant orthographies

ALIV	susu
Brazilian standard	susu
New Tribes	susu

• IPA^(key): [susu]

susu

1. breast milk
2. breast with milk

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “susu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[4], Lyon
• Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎^[5], Santa Barbara: University of California, page 217: “shushu etcudu”
• Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris‎^[6], corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, page 178: “susu”