shura or shibra, vide under [gero].
siliyar sulkuwa, vide under [rumfar gada].
siyayi or tsiyayi = ḳeḳasheshe; vide under [rama].
soso, Luffa ægyptiaca, Mill. (Cucurbitaceæ). “Loofah gourd;” a climber with yellow flowers and cucumber-shaped fruit with a fibrous vascular skeleton used as a scrubber or strainer, &c. Pulp of immature fruit eaten cooked. soson yama, Luffa acutangula, Roxb. a species with larger fruit with longitudinal ridges; (called also soson wanka, because more used as a loofah in washing).
subtu or sutu; cotton before carding, pulled by hand after removal of the seeds by a roller on a stone; vide under [abduga].
sunasar = a food made from wheat; vide under [alkama].
sure (Sok.) = [yakuwa], q.v. Hibiscus Sabdariffa, Linn. “Red Sorrel.”
suren fadama (Sok.), Triumfetta pentandra, A. Rich. (Tiliaceæ); an erect branching undershrub with small echinate fruits which adhere to the clothing; vide [ḍan kaḍafi]. The leaves are sometimes used as chusar doki; vide under [kuka].
surendi, vide [dayi].
sutura, a species of Euphorbia with milky juice; called also tutar yan sariki; (vide also under [zaḳami]).