شو

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See also: سو and سؤ

Alviri-Vidari

Noun

شو (šev)

  1. night
  2. evening

Derived terms

Bakhtiari

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Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *xšáfš.

Pronunciation

Noun

شو (transliteration needed)

  1. night
  2. evening

Bulgar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *sub.

Noun

شِو (şıv)

  1. (Volga Bulgar) river, water
    جرمسَن شِونَ بَرسَ وَلتِÇerimsen şıwne barse welti.He died when he get to the Çerimsen river.

Descendants

  • Chuvash: шыв (šyv)

References

  • Erdal, Marcel (1993) Die Sprache der wolgabolgarischen Inschriften (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 42
  • Róna-Tas, András (1976) “A Volga Bulgarıan Inscription from 1307”, in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae (in Bulgar), volume 30, number 2, page 155
  • Tekin, Talât (1988) Volga Bulgar kitabeleri ve Volga Bulgarcası [Volga Bulgarian Ephitaphs and Volga Bulgarian Language]‎ (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, →ISBN

Mazanderani

Noun

شو (šu)

  1. night

North Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic أَيُّ شَيْءٍ هُوَ (ʔayyu šayʔin huwa, literally what thing is it).

Pronunciation

Pronoun

شُو (šū)

  1. (interrogative) what?
    شو اسمك؟
    šū ismak? (to a male), šū ismik? (to a female)
    What's your name?

Ottoman Turkish

Pronoun

شو (şu)

  1. (demonstrative) that (near by)

Declension

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Persian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? šaw
Dari reading? šaw
Iranian reading? šav
Tajik reading? šav

Verb

Dari شو
Iranian Persian
Tajik шав

شو (šav)

  1. present stem form of شدن (šodan)

Etymology 2

See شب

Pronunciation

Readings
Dari reading? šaw
Iranian reading? šow, šav

Noun

شو (šaw, šow, šav)

  1. (colloquial) pronunciation spelling of شب (šab).
Derived terms

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South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic أَيُّ شَيْءٍ هُوَ (ʔayyu šayʔin huwa, literally what thing is it).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃuː/,
  • Audio (Birzeit):(file)

Pronoun

شو (šu)

  1. what?
    Synonym: أيش (ʔēš)

Southwestern Fars

Noun

شو (šow)

  1. (Masarm, Deh Sarv) night
  2. (Masarm, Deh Sarv) evening

Urdu

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English show.

Noun

شو (śom (Hindi spelling शो)

  1. show

Etymology 2

From Sanskrit शव (śava).

Noun

شو (śavm (Hindi spelling शव)

  1. corpse
Synonyms

Ushojo

Adjective

شو (šō)

  1. good
  2. better