osh

See also: Osh

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Tajik ош (oš). See aush.

Noun

osh (uncountable)

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

Anagrams

• HOS, Hos., OHS, OHs, SHO, Sho, Soh, hos, ohs, sho, sho', soh

Albanian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oʃ/
• Rhymes: -oʃ

Noun

osh m (definite oshi)

1. (colloquial, uncountable) joy, satisfaction

   Synonym: kënaqësi

Declension

Declension of osh

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

Adverb

osh

1. (colloquial) trailing (along the ground), crawlingly

   Synonyms: zvarrë, rrëshqanë, zharg, branë

Verb

osh (aorist osha, participle oshur) (transitive)

1. (colloquial, also intransitive) to shush, to silence

   Synonyms: pushoj, hesht

2. (third person) to interrupt

   Synonyms: ndërpres, ndalet

3. to pet, to caress

   Synonyms: ledhatoj, përkëdhel

Further reading

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

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

Derived from English hush.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oʃ/

Verb

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

Noun

osh

1. Alternative spelling of oš

Narragansett

Etymology

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

Noun

osh anim

1. father

Declension

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

• cuttòso

Further reading

• Roger Williams (1643) A Key into the Language of America, London: Gregory Dexter, →OCLC, page 28

Uzbek

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian آش (âš).

Noun

osh (plural oshlar)

1. food
2. pilaf