sho (notcomparable)
- (Southern US, African-American Vernacular)Pronunciation spelling ofsure.
1952,Ralph Ellison,Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page97:“Isho am glad. Yousho you all right? I thoughtsho you was dead this time.”
- (childish)Pronunciation spelling ofso.
Borrowed fromJapanese笙(shō).
sho (pluralshos)
- AJapanesefree reedmusical instrument similar to thesheng.
Of modern scholarly coinage. From itsBactrian pronunciation/ʃ/, and the final omricon (ο) found at the end of almost all Bactrian words.
sho (pluralshos)
- Aletter of theGreekalphabet used to write theBactrian language: uppercaseϷ, lowercaseϸ.
Borrowed fromEnglishsho, used to illustrateBactrianϸ(š). Also compare the archaic Greek characterϺ(S).
sho m orf (invariable)
- sho (Greek letter)
sho
- Thehiragana syllableしょ(sho) or thekatakana syllableショ(sho) inHepburn romanization.
Inherited fromFrenchchaud(“hot”).
sho
- hot
- Albert Valdman,Dictionary of Louisiana Creole
- Thomas A. Klingler,If I Could Turn My Tongue Like that: The Creole of Pointe Coupee Parish
sho
- (chiefly Northern)Alternative form ofsche
sho (pluralshos orshon)
- Alternative form ofscho(“shoe”)
sho
- Alternative form ofschon(“to shoe”)
sho
- frost
Tłʼéédą́ą́ʼ sho yiigaii jiní.- It frosted last night, I hear.
- IPA(key): /ˈʃo/[ˈʃo]
- Rhymes:-o
- Syllabification:sho
¡sho!
- (Guatemala, colloquial)shush!,hush!
- (Guatemala, colloquial)wow!,whoa!
FromProto-Bantu*-tɪ̀o, derived fromProto-Bantu*-tɪ̀(“say, quote”).
-sho
- tosay
This verb needs aninflection-table template.
Perhapsborrowed fromSerbo-Croatianćao.
sho
- (slang)hi
- Often in "Shobre!" (Hi, bro!).
- Usually pronounced identically to the native greetingtjo.
- bre
- hej (has a list of greetings and farewells)
FromProto-Bantu*-tɪ̀o, derived fromProto-Bantu*-tɪ̀(“say, quote”).
-sho
- (intransitive) tosay
- (intransitive) tomean
This verb needs aninflection-table template.
