# shi
## English
### Etymology 1

Clipping of shibire. Coined by Japanese-Canadian geneticist and zoologist David Suzuki, the person who also coined "shibire".

#### Noun

shi (uncountable)
* (genetics) Abbreviation of shibire.

##### Derived terms

* shi(ts)
* shi(ts1)
* shi(ts2)

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃaɪ/ (expressly not /ʃi/)

#### Pronoun

shi
* (furry fandom, rare) Alternative form of sie (gender-neutral pronoun)
** 1999 november 20, "Chakat Goldfur" (username), Furry Art on Ebay...horrible shameless plug, alt.fan.furry, Usenet:
    The mother was Chakat Goldfur and the sire was Garrek Redfox (foxtaur) so she has the same red fur but cougar-like markings. Of course shi’s still only a cub yet, but if shi grows up to look anything like the your Jaguar-Vixen, shi’s going to be a heartbreaker!
** 2001 January 25, "Achowth Keciyl" (username), quoting "A. Seraph" (username), Fur: The one and only Herm Gengimal, in fur.artwork.erotica, Usenet:
    > Unlike most Furry Hermaphrodites I've seen, Clash is fairly
    > androgynous. Shi is remarkable in hir modesty.
    > But shi IS rather naughty, as you can see.
** 2006, Kenneth Fox, Joined in Mind and Body, Kenneth Fox, →ISBN, page 230:Dropping hir forebody down just a little, shi bent over double at the waist. Andrew's eyes blinked open as whiskers met his cheeks just before feline lips. He purred to hir and reached up to caress hir back as shi kissed him ...

##### Synonyms

* see Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns
* hir (objective form)

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃɪ(ː)/

#### Noun

shi (uncountable)
* Apocopic form of shit

#### Interjection

shi
* Apocopic form of shit

### See also

* she
* She
* Shi
* Shih
* Shii

### See also

* shi shi, shi-shi (etymologically unrelated)

### Anagrams

* -ish, His, Hsi, IHS, Ish, his, ish

## Albanian
### Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *śūh, from Proto-Indo-European *suh₂-s < *sh₂ew- (“to rain”). Compare Ancient Greek ὕει (húei, “it rains”), Hittite [script needed] (ishuwāi, “(s)he pours out, spills”), Tocharian B suwaṃ (“it rains”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ʃi]

### Noun

shi m (plural shira, definite shiu, definite plural shirat)
* rain

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ Stefan Schumacher & Joachim Matzinger, Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2013), 226.

## Aromanian
### Etymology

From Latin sic. Compare to Daco-Romanian și.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ʃi]

### Conjunction

shi
* and
* also

## Dena'ina
### Pronoun

shi
* I, me (first-person singular)

#### Related terms

* sh-

## Drung
### Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *səj.

### Verb

shi
* to die

### References

* Ross Perlin (2019) A Grammar of Trung‎, Santa Barbara: University of California

## Esperanto
### Pronoun

shi
* H-system spelling of ŝi

## Hausa
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃí/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [ʃɪ́]

### Pronoun

shi m sg (feminine ita, plural su)
* he (3rd person singular pronoun)

### See also

* másà (3rd person singular masculine indirect object enclitic pronoun)
* shí (3rd person singular masculine independent object pronoun)
* -sà (3rd person singular masculine possessive enclitic pronoun)

## Japanese
### Romanization

shi
* The hiragana syllable し (shi) or the katakana syllable シ (shi) in Hepburn romanization.

## Jingpho
### Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ts(j)i(j) ~ tsjaj (“ten”).

### Numeral

shi
* ten

## Kwama
### Noun

shi
* tooth

### References

* Goldberg, Justin, Asadik, Habte, Bekama, Jiregna, Mengistu, Mulat (2016) Gwama – English Dictionary‎, SIL International

## Mandarin
### Romanization

shi (shi$^5$ / shi$^0$, Zhuyin ˙ㄕ)
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 匙
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 殖
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 𥫽
shi
* Nonstandard spelling of shī.
* Nonstandard spelling of shí.
* Nonstandard spelling of shǐ.
* Nonstandard spelling of shì.

#### Usage notes

* Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

## Scots
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃɪ/

### Pronoun

shi
* (Southern Scots, personal) she

#### Usage notes

Used alongside the English she (/ʃiː/).

#### See also

* hei

## Yanomamö
### Noun

shi (plural shi pë)
* feces, castings, poop

### References

* Lizot, Jacques (2004) Diccionario enciclopédico de la lengua yãnomãmɨ‎ (in Spanish), Vicariato apostólico de Puerto Ayacucho, →ISBN

## Ye'kwana
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ʃi]

### Verb

shi
* (transitive) to tear, to slash, to scratch

#### Derived terms

* eshi

### References

* Hall, Katherine (2007) “-iši-”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021