different between sheng vs sho

English

Etymology

From Mandarin ? (sh?ng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/, (anglicized) /???/

Noun

sheng (plural shengs)

1. A Chinese wind instrument, a free-reed mouth organ consisting of 13 or more bamboo pipes of various lengths, which are fixed at their bases in a wind chest made from a dried gourd (or, more recently, wood or chrome-plated brass).

Translations

Anagrams

• Enghs, Engsh, Hengs

French

Noun

sheng m (plural shengs)

1. sheng

Mandarin

Romanization

sheng

1. Nonstandard spelling of sh?ng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of shéng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of sh?ng.
4. Nonstandard spelling of shèng.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

sheng (n class, plural sheng)

1. (Sheng) Alternative letter-case form of Sheng

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o?/
• Homophone: show
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Adverb

sho (not comparable)

1. (Southern US, African-American Vernacular) Pronunciation spelling of sure.
2. (childish) Pronunciation spelling of so.

Etymology 2

From Japanese ? (sh?).

Noun

sho (plural shos)

1. A Japanese free reed musical instrument similar to the sheng.

Translations

Etymology 3

Of modern scholarly coinage.

Noun

sho (plural shos)

1. A letter of the Greek alphabet used to write the Bactrian language: uppercase ?, lowercase ?.

Translations

Anagrams

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

Italian

Etymology

From English sho, used to illustrate Bactrian ? (š). Also compare the archaic Greek character ? (?).

Noun

sho m or f (invariable)

1. sho (Greek letter)

Japanese

Romanization

sho

1. R?maji transcription of ??
2. R?maji transcription of ??

Lashi

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?/

Adjective

sho

1. shy

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o??/

Noun

sho

1. hundred

Usage notes

• The term sho has to be preceded by another cardinal number in order to be used as a numeral. Note that the term for "hundred" is written as one word:

  dasho (“(a) hundred”)

  qøk sho (“two hundred”)

References

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid?^[1], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Middle English

Etymology 1

Pronoun

sho

1. (chiefly Northern dialectal) Alternative form of sche

Etymology 2

From Old English sc?h.

Alternative forms

• shoo, scho, schoo, sso, sco, shogh, shou?, showe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?/, /??u?x/

Noun

sho (plural shos or shon)

2. A shoe (an article of footwear)
3. A horseshoe or similar device for other animals.
4. A piece of metal fortifying the edge of a wooden spade.

Related terms

• hors sho
• shon

Descendants

• English: shoe
• Scots: shae

References

• “sh??, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-16.

Etymology 3

Verb

sho

1. Alternative form of shon (“to shoe”)

Navajo

Noun

sho

1. frost

Alternative forms

• shoh

Swazi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-t??o, derived from Proto-Bantu *-t?? (“say, quote”).

Verb

-sho

1. to say

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Zulu

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-t??o, derived from Proto-Bantu *-t?? (“say, quote”).

Verb

-sho

1. (intransitive) to say
2. (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”