osh

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Tajik ош (oš). See aush.

Noun[edit]

osh (uncountable)

  1. A Tajik dish of rice cooked with meat and oil; a kind of pilaf.

Anagrams[edit]

Albanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

A fossilized form of a rare osh (“harrow”), thus the original meaning was "trailing as a harrow".[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

osh m (definite oshi)

  1. (colloquial, uncountable) joy, satisfaction
    Synonym: kënaqësi

Declension[edit]

Declension of osh
indefinite definite
nominative osh oshi
accusative oshin
dat./abl. oshi oshit

Adverb[edit]

osh

  1. (colloquial) trailing (along the ground), crawlingly
    Synonyms: zvarrë, rrëshqanë, zharg, branë

Verb[edit]

osh (aorist osha, participle oshur) (transitive)

  1. (colloquial, also intransitive) to shush, to silence
    Synonyms: pushoj, hesht
  2. (third person) to interrupt
    Synonym: ndërpres
  3. to pet, to caress
    Synonyms: ledhatoj, përkëdhel

References[edit]

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “osh”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 307

Further reading[edit]

  • “osh”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[2] (in Albanian), 1980
  • “osh”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • Mann, S. E. (1948) “osh”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 335

Jamaican Creole[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Derived from English hush.

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

osh

  1. to hush, to comfort
    • 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Matyu 5:4:
      Aal a uu a baal nou, Gad bles dem, kaaz di taim a-go kom wen Gad a-go osh dem an mek dem api agen.
      They are blessed who grieve, for God will comfort them.

Kalasha[edit]

Noun[edit]

osh

  1. Alternative spelling of oš

Narragansett[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Algonquian *noᐧhϴa (“my father”).[1] Compare Massachusett ꝏshoh, ꝏsh, ꝏshe, which according to Trumbull literally means "he comes from him" (compare okásu).[2] Further cognates include Ojibwe -oos (“father”), noos (“my father”),[3] and Lenape nooch (“my father”), gooch (“your father”).[4]

Noun[edit]

osh anim

  1. father

Declension[edit]

Declension of osh (animate, 4 forms attested)
singular plural locative
unpossessed osh *osh-og (-ock, -uck, -aug) *osh-ick (-uck, -eck, -eg, -it, -ut)
possessed forms
first-person (my) nòsh *n'osh-og (-ock, -uck, -aug) *n'osh-ick (-uck, -eck, -eg, -it, -ut)
second-person (your) còsh
kòsh		 *k'osh-og (-ock, -uck, -aug) *k'osh-ick (-uck, -eck, -eg, -it, -ut)
third-person (his, her) *w'osh *w'osh-og (-ock, -uck, -aug) *w'osh-ick (-uck, -eck, -eg, -it, -ut)

Related terms[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Hewson, John (2017) “*noᐧhϴa”, in Proto-Algonquian Online Dictionary, Carleton University, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
  2. ^ James Hammond Trumbull (1903) Natick Dictionary, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, pages 113, 256
  3. ^ Nora Livesay and John D. Nichols, editors (2012-2021), “noos”, in Ojibwe People's Dictionary‎[1], University of Minnesota
  4. ^ Eben Norton Horsford, editor (1887), Zeisberger's Indian dictionary, Cambridge, MA: John Wilson and Son, →OCLC, page 72

Further reading[edit]

Uzbek[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Persian آش (âš).

Noun[edit]

osh (plural oshlar)

  1. food
  2. pilaf
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