different between rho vs pho

English

Etymology

From the name of the Ancient Greek letter ?? (rhô).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o?/
• Homophones: row, roe, Roe, Rowe
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

rho (plural rhos)

1. The seventeenth letter of the Modern Greek and Classical alphabets and the nineteenth letter of Old and Ancient.
2. (finance) The sensitivity of the option value to the risk-free interest rate.

Hypernyms

• (measure of derivative price sensitivity): Greeks (includes list of coordinate terms)

Derived terms

• Rho factor
• rho meson
• rhotic
• Spearman's rho

Translations

Anagrams

• ROH, Roh, hor

Catalan

Noun

rho f (plural rhos)

1. Alternative spelling of ro

Italian

Alternative forms

• ro

Etymology

From the name of the Ancient Greek letter ?? (rhô).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?/, [r??]
• Hyphenation: rò
• Rhymes: -?

Noun

rho m or f (invariable)

1. rho (Greek letter)

Derived terms

• rotacismo

Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?? (rhô).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ro/, [?ro]

Noun

rho f (plural rhos)

1. rho; the Greek letter ?, ?

   Synonym: ro

Welsh

Alternative forms

• (subjunctive): rhoddo, rhotho
• (imperative): dyro

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?o?/

Verb

rho

1. (literary) third-person singular subjunctive of rhoi
2. second-person singular imperative of rhoi

Mutation

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Vietnamese ph?.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /f??/, /f??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /fo?/, /f?/
• Rhymes: -??, -??(r), -?
• Homophones: foe, faux

Noun

pho (usually uncountable, plural phos)

1. A Vietnamese soup with a beef base, typically served with rice noodles and beef or chicken.
   • 1935: Marcelle "Countess" Morphy, Recipes of All Nations, p. 802 [1]

     PHO is the name of an Annamese soup held in high esteem. It is made with beef, a veal bone, onions, a bayleaf, salt, and pepper, and a small teaspoon of nuoc-man,^[sic] a typically Annamese condiment which is used in practically all their dishes.

   • 2003: Frank Browning, "73106: Lemongrass on the Prairie", National Geographic, vol. 203, issue 3 [2]

     Ten minutes away from the intersection, the heart of Little Saigon, you can easily walk to five restaurants specializing in pho (the classic Vietnamese beef broth soup), two Asian supermarkets, and several Chinese barbecue cafés.

Translations

Etymology 2

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Alternative forms

• foh
• phoh

Pronunciation

Interjection

pho

1. (archaic) Expressing dismissive contempt.

Synonyms

• feh, pfaugh, pish, pshaw; see also Thesaurus:bah

Anagrams

• OHP, POH, hop, pOH, poh

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [f???]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [f???]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [f???]

Noun

pho

1. set

Zou

Noun

pho

1. shield

References

• http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2013/zouphonologyfinal.pdf