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.

Noun

شِو (şıv)

1. (Volga Bulgar) river, water

   جرمسَن شِونَ بَرسَ وَلتِ ― Çerimsen 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^[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

Mazanderani

Noun

شو (šu)

1. night

North Levantine Arabic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʃuː]

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

declension of شو

	singular (مفرد)	plural (جمع)
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): [ʃaw]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃäw]

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

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃæv]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃäw]

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

 

• (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. (colloquial) pronunciation spelling of شب (šab).

Derived terms

• امشو (emšow) (colloquial)

See also

• امشب (emšab, 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