# sho
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ʃəʊ/
* (General American) IPA: /ʃoʊ/
* Homophone: show
* Rhymes: -əʊ

### Etymology 1
#### Adverb

sho (not comparable)
* (Southern US, African-American Vernacular) Pronunciation spelling of sure.
** 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 97:“I sho am glad. You sho you all right? I thought sho you was dead this time.”
* (childish) Pronunciation spelling of so.

##### Derived terms

* fo sho
* sho nuff

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Japanese 笙 (shō).

#### Noun

sho (plural shos)
* A Japanese free reed musical instrument similar to the sheng.

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

Of modern scholarly coinage. From its Bactrian pronunciation /ʃ/, and the final omricon (ο) found at the end of almost all Bactrian words.

#### Noun

sho (plural shos)
* A letter of the Greek alphabet used to write the Bactrian language: uppercase Ϸ, lowercase ϸ.

##### Translations
### See also

* gino-sho
* kanto-sho
* shukun-sho

### Anagrams

* HOS, Hos., OHS, OHs, Osh, Soh, hos, ohs, osh, soh

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English sho, used to illustrate Bactrian ϸ (š). Also compare the archaic Greek character Ϻ (S).

### Noun

sho m or f (invariable)
* sho (Greek letter)

## Japanese
### Romanization

sho
* The hiragana syllable しょ (sho) or the katakana syllable ショ (sho) in Hepburn romanization.

## Louisiana Creole
### Etymology

Inherited from French chaud (“hot”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃo/
* Rhymes: -o

### Adjective

sho
* hot

### References

* Albert Valdman, Dictionary of Louisiana Creole
* Thomas A. Klingler, If I Could Turn My Tongue Like that: The Creole of Pointe Coupee Parish

## Middle English
### Etymology 1
#### Pronoun

sho
* (chiefly Northern) Alternative form of sche

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

sho (plural shos or shon)
* Alternative form of scho (“shoe”)

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

sho
* Alternative form of schon (“to shoe”)

## Navajo
### Noun

sho
* frost
    Tłʼéédą́ą́ʼ sho yiigaii jiní.It frosted last night, I hear.

#### Alternative forms

* shoh

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʃo/ [ˈʃo]
* Rhymes: -o
* Syllabification: sho

### Interjection

¡sho!
* (Guatemala, colloquial) shush!, hush!
* (Guatemala, colloquial) wow!, whoa!

## Swazi
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-tɪ̀o, derived from Proto-Bantu *-tɪ̀ (“say, quote”).

### Verb

-sho
* to say

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

## Swedish
### Alternative forms

* shoo

### Etymology

Perhaps borrowed from Serbo-Croatian ćao.

### Interjection

sho
* (slang) hi

#### Usage notes

* Often in "Sho bre!" (Hi, bro!).
* Usually pronounced identically to the native greeting tjo.

#### See also

* bre
* hej (has a list of greetings and farewells)

### References

* Slangopedia

## Zulu
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-tɪ̀o, derived from Proto-Bantu *-tɪ̀ (“say, quote”).

### Verb

-sho
* (intransitive) to say
* (intransitive) to mean

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

#### Derived terms

* -sholo (applicative)
* -shiso (causative)
* -shoyisho (diminutive)
* -shisiso (intensive)
* -shoko (neuter-passive)
* -shiwo (passive)
* -shono (reciprocal)

### References

* C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “sho”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “sho”