شو

See also: سو and سؤ

Alviri-Vidari

Noun

شو (šev)

1. night
2. evening

Derived terms

• ام شو (am šev)

Bakhtiari

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *xšáfš.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛʃæu/

Noun

شو (transliteration needed)

1. night
2. evening

Bulgar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *sub (“water”).

Noun

شِو (šıw)

1. river

   جرمسَن شِونَ بَرسَ وَلتِ ― Čerimsen šıwne barse welti. ― He died when he arrived to the Čerimsen 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^[1] (in Bulgar), volume 30, number 2, page 155
• Tekin, Talât (1988), Volga Bulgar kitabeleri ve Volga Bulgarcası [Volga Bulgarian Ephitaphs and Volga Bulgarian Language]‎^[2] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, →ISBN, pages 160-161

Mazanderani

Noun

شو (šu)

1. night

North Levantine Arabic

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic أَيّ (ʔayy)

Arabic شَيْء (šayʔ)

Arabic أَيْشٍ (ʔayšin)

North Levantine Arabic أَيْش (ʔayš)

Proto-Semitic *šuʔa

Arabic هُوَ (huwa)

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Arabic هُوَه (huwah)influ.

North Levantine Arabic هُو (hū)

North Levantine Arabic شو

Contraction of أيْش (ʔayš, ʔēš, “what”) +‎ هو (hū, “it”), literally “what is it?”.

The first component, أيْش (ʔayš, ʔēš, “what”), is in turn from Arabic أَيْشٍ (ʔayšin), an ancient colloquial contraction of أَيُّ شَيْءٍ (ʔayyu šayʔin, literally “what thing, which thing”) that gradually displaced original مَا (mā), مَاذَا (māḏā, “what”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃu(ː)/

Pronoun

شُو • (šū, šu)

1. (interrogative) what?

   شو إسمك؟ ― šū ʔismak? (to a male), šū ʔismik? (to a female) ― What's your name?

2. (relative) what

   Synonym: اللي (lli, illi)

   شفت شو بعتّلّك؟ ― šift šu baʕattillak? ― Did you see what I sent you?

Synonyms

• (regional) أيش (ʔēš, ʔayš)
• (Beqaa) شنو (šino)

Derived terms

• شو في ما في (šu fī ma fī, “what's up; what's new”, literally “what is there, isn't there?”)
• شوإسمو (šuʔismo, “whatchamacallit; thingamajig”, literally “whatsitsname”)

Determiner

شو • (šu)

1. what a...!, how...! (before adjectives or verb phrases)

Synonyms

• أيش (ʔēš, ʔayš) (before adjectives or verb phrases)
• قديه (ʔaddē) ~ قديش (ʔaddēš) (unconstrained)
• ما (ma) (before elatives)
• ملا (malla, milla), أما (ʔamma) (before nouns or adjectives)

Interjection

شو • (šu, šū)

1. whoa; wait; what gives

   شو مبين بتترغل صاير ― šū mbayyin bittarḡil ṣāyir ― Wait, wow, you seem completely fluent now

Ottoman Turkish

Pronoun

شو • (şu)

1. (demonstrative) that (near by)

Declension

Declension of شو

	singular	plural
nominative	شو (şu)	شونلر (şunlar)
genitive	شونڭ (şunuñ)	شونلرڭ (şunlarıñ)
dative	شوڭه (şuña)	شونلره (şunlara)
definite accusative	شونی (şunı)	شونلری (şunları)
locative	شونده (şunda)	شونلرده (şunlarda)
ablative	شوندن (şundan)	شونلردن (şunlardan)

See also

• اول (ol)
• بو (bu)

Persian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ˈʃaw/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃäw]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃäw]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʃʊ], [ʃ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʃu], [ʃ]

 

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃow]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃow]
  • (Tehrani) IPA^(key): [ʃo], [ʃ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃäw]

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

Verb

شو • (šaw / šow) (Tajik spelling шав)

1. present stem form of شدن (šodan)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃäw]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃäw]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʃäw]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʃäw]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃow], [ʃæv]

Readings
Dari reading?	šaw
Iranian reading?	šow, šav

Noun

شو • (šaw, šow, šav)

1. dialectal form of شب (šab)

Derived terms

• امشو (imšaw / emšow) (dialectal)

See also

• امشب (imšab / emšab)

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃuː/, [ʃu]

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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 • (śo) m (Hindi spelling शो)

1. show

Etymology 2

From Sanskrit शव (śava).

Noun

شو • (śav) m (Hindi spelling शव)

1. corpse

Synonyms

• لاش (lāś)

Ushojo

Adjective

شو (šō)

1. good
2. better