shash

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃæʃ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -æʃ

Etymology 1

See sash.

Noun

shash (plural shashes) (obsolete)

1. The scarf of a turban.
   • 1650, Thomas Fuller, “The Land of Moriah”, in A Pisgah-sight of Palestine and the Confines thereof, with the History of the Old and New Testament Acted thereon, London: […] J. F. for John Williams […], →OCLC, book II, paragraph 24, page 303:

     So much for the ſilk in Judea called Sheſh in Hebrevv, vvhence haply, that fine linen or ſilk is called Shaſhes vvorn at this day about the heads of eaſtern people.

2. A sash.

Etymology 2

Imitative?

Noun

shash (uncountable)

1. (television) Synonym of snow (“random pattern of dots when there is no signal”).
   • 1997, Paul Kriwaczek, Documentary for the Small Screen:

     Even productions designed for office or home video viewing usually need a title sequence to mark off the empty tape, hiss and shash from the prepared recording […]

   • 2012, Paul Farley, Michael Symmons Roberts, Edgelands: Journeys Into England's True Wilderness, page 159:

     No one sees shash now, but it was naked television. Shash was the term for those black-and-burst patterns that danced across the screen when there was nothing being broadcast.

Verb

shash (third-person singular simple present shashes, present participle shashing, simple past and past participle shashed)

1. (intransitive, rare) To produce white noise.
   • 2003, Libby Purves, Casting Off:

     The machine shashed and crackled, broadcasting silence. Urgently the man repeated, 'Shearwater, Shearwater, Shearwater. This is Brewmarine. Keith speaking. Over. Over.' More shashing, more silence.

References

• Brian Armstrong (1976), The Glossary of TV Terms, page 80

Further reading

• “shash”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• shahs, shāhs

Afar

Noun

shash^? ?

1. A black strip of cloth worn on the head by married Afar women as part of the traditional dress.

Navajo

Etymology

Proto-Athabaskan *x̯əšʷ (“black bear”). Compare Ahtna sos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɑ̀ʃ/

Noun

shash

1. bear (animal)

Derived terms

• shash bighą́ąʼgi hadzíbáhí (“grizzly bear”)
• shash bizaʼazis hólóní (“koala”)
• shash łigaii (“polar bear”)
• shash łizhinii (“black bear”)
• shash nátʼoh (“caltrop”)
• shash naʼazísí (“wombat”)
• shash yáázh (“bear cub”)
• shashtsoh (“brown bear”)

References

• Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 468

Wailaki

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *x̯əšʷ (“black bear”)

Noun

shash

1. bear

References

• Begay, Kayla Rae (2017), Wailaki Grammar, University of California, Berkeley, page 211

Western Apache

Etymology

Proto-Athabaskan *x̯əšʷ (“black bear”). Compare Ahtna sos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʃaʃ]

Noun

shash

1. bear