sho

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

sho (not comparable)

1. (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.”

2. (childish) Pronunciation spelling of so.

Borrowed from Japanese 笙 (shō).

sho (plural shos)

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

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

sho (plural shos)

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

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

From English sure.

• IPA^(key): /ʃo/

sho

1. sure
2. very

sho

1. surely

   Synonym: fuh sho

• Virginia Mixson Geraty, Gulluh fuh oonuh: Gullah for You (1997)

• Seminole Indian Scouts Cemetery Association. Afro-Seminole Creole Wikitongues Language Class 

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

sho m or f (invariable)

1. sho (Greek letter)

sho

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

Inherited from French chaud (“hot”).

• IPA^(key): /ʃo/
• Rhymes: -o

sho

1. hot

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

sho

1. (chiefly Northern) alternative form of sche

sho (plural shon)

1. alternative form of scho (“shoe”)

sho

1. alternative form of schon (“to shoe”)

• IPA^(key): /ʃò/

sho

1. frost

   Tłʼéédą́ą́ʼ sho yiigaii jiní.

   It frosted last night, I hear.

• shoh

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃo/ [ˈʃo]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: sho

¡sho!

1. (Guatemala, colloquial) shush!, hush!
2. (Guatemala, colloquial) wow!, whoa!

sho

1. (Rioplatense) Pronunciation spelling of yo.

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

-sho

1. to say

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• shoo

Perhaps borrowed from Serbo-Croatian ćao.

sho

1. (slang) hi

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

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

• Slangopedia

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

-sho

1. (intransitive) to say
2. (intransitive) to mean

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

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

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