ho

ho

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English Online Dictionary. What means ho‎? What does ho mean?

Translingual

Symbol

ho

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Hiri Motu.

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /həʊ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /hoʊ/
  • Rhymes: -əʊ
  • Homophones: hoe, hoh

Etymology 1

From Middle English ho, hoo (interjection), probably from Old Norse hó! (interjection, also, a shepherd's call). Compare Dutch ho, German ho, Old French ho! (“hold!, halt!”).

Interjection

ho

  1. (nautical) Used to attract attention to something sighted, usually by lookouts.
    Sail ho! ― Another boat is visible!
    Land ho! ― Land is visible!
    Man ho! ― A town is visible!
  2. halloo; hey; a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach.
  3. (rare) Said accompanying a vigorous attack.
    • 1999, Mona the Vampire, "Attack of the Living Scarecrow" (season 1, episode 1a):
      Mona: Hee! Ha! Ho! Ha! The brain buffet is closed, buddy! Take that! And this!
Derived terms
  • ho there
Translations

Noun

ho

  1. A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.
References
  • 1996, T.F. Hoad, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN

Etymology 2

Pronunciation spelling of whore in a non-rhotic accent with the dough-door merger, which is found in some varieties of African American Vernacular English. Compare mo (“more”), fo' (“for; four”). The noun first appears c. 1964, whereas the verb first appears c. 1972.

Alternative forms

  • hoe

Noun

ho (plural hos or hoes or heaux)

  2. (slang, derogatory) A whore; a sexually promiscuous woman; in general use as a highly offensive term of abuse for a woman with connotations of loose sexuality.
  3. (slang, offensive) A woman in general; a bitch.
Synonyms
  • See also Thesaurus:promiscuous woman
Derived terms
  • ho stroll
  • ho tag
  • hoism
Translations

Verb

ho (third-person singular simple present hoes, present participle hoeing, simple past and past participle hoed)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, slang, vulgar) To act as a ho, to prostitute.

Etymology 3

From Middle English howe, houwe, hoȝe, from Old English hogu and hoga, from Proto-Germanic *hugô, *hugiz, *huguz (“mind, thought, understanding”), akin to Old High German hugu, hugi (Middle High German hüge), Old Saxon hugi (Middle Dutch höghe, Dutch heug), Old Norse hugr, Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌲𐍃 (hugs).

Alternative forms

  • hoe

Noun

ho (plural hos)

  1. (obsolete) Care, anxiety, trouble, sorrow.

Etymology 4

From Middle English howen, hoȝen, hogien, from Old English hogian, hugian, from Proto-Germanic *hugjaną. Cognate with Middle Scots huik, Old High German hucken, Old Saxon huggjan, Dutch heugen, Old Norse hyggja, Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (hugjan).

Alternative forms

  • hoe

Verb

ho

  1. (obsolete) To care, be anxious, to long.
    • 1787, F. Grose, Provinc. Gloss (at cited word):
      To ho for anything, to long for any thing. Berks.
    • 1847-78, J. O. Halliwell, Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words:
      Ho...to long for anything; to be careful and anxious. West.
    • 1869-70, William Barnes, The Bells of Alderburnham, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect:
      But still 'tis happiness to know That there's a God above us; An' he, by day an' night do ho Vor all ov us an' love us.

Anagrams

  • OH, oh, Oh, -oh, Oh.

Asturian

Etymology

Clipping of home

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈo/ [ˈo]

Interjection

ho

  1. friendly interjection used at the end of a phrase when speaking to someone, "bro", "man"
  2. used closing the sentence to bolster the attention of the listener; emphatic

Usage notes

  • This interjection is used very frequently in Asturian, more than English man or bro, as such when translating to English many instances of "ho" would not be translated.
  • Although "ho" was originally the adult male form, the children equivalent being nin, "ho" is now used extensively for either, without taking into account the receptor's gender or age, while "nin" has largely retained its connotations.
  • "Ho" is usually only used at the end of phrases, "home" is used at the beginning.
Eso ye lo qu'hai de facer, ho ― That's what you gotta do, man
Home, eso ye lo qu'hai de facer ― Man, that's what you gotta do

Breton

Determiner

ho (requires hard mutation)

  1. your pl
    ho preudeur ― your brothers

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin hoc. Compare Occitan o and ac.

Pronunciation

  • (Eastern) IPA(key): /u/, /əw/
  • (Western) IPA(key): /u/, /ew/, /o/
  • (Valencia) IPA(key): /ew/, /u/, /o/

Pronoun

ho (enclitic and proclitic)

  1. it (direct object); replaces the demonstrative pronouns açò, això and allò
  2. replaces an independent clause (one which could grammatically form a sentence on its own)
  3. replaces an adjective or an indefinite noun which serves as the predicate of ésser, esdevenir, estar or semblar

Usage notes

  • Ho cannot be used with either en or hi.
  • ho is the reinforced (reforçada) form of the pronoun. It is used before verbs.
    Ho sabem. ― We know that.
  • -ho is the full (plena) form of the pronoun. It is normally used after verbs.
    Puc fer-ho. ― I can do it.
    Deixa-ho. ― Leave it.

Declension

Derived terms

Chickasaw

Pronoun

ho

  1. they

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɦo]

Pronoun

ho m or n

  1. accusative of on
    Synonym: jej
  2. accusative of ono

Danish

Interjection

ho

  1. (onomatopoeia) Signifies a hearty laugh.

See also

  • ha, he, hi, hæ, hø, hår

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ho/
  • Rhymes: -o
  • Hyphenation: ho

Noun

ho (accusative singular ho-on, plural ho-oj, accusative plural ho-ojn)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter H/h.

See also

  • (Latin-script letter names) litero; a, bo, co, ĉo, do, e, fo, go, ĝo, ho, ĥo, i, jo, ĵo, ko, lo, mo, no, o, po, ro, so, ŝo, to, u, ŭo, vo, zo

Interjection

ho

  1. oh

See also

  • hu

Finnish

Etymology

Compare Karelian ho. An interjection that is found in many languages.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈho/, [ˈho̞]
  • Rhymes: -o
  • Hyphenation(key): ho

Interjection

ho

  1. Synonym of oho

References

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /o/

Interjection

ho

  1. Used by tamers to calm the animal they are taming, especially horses; whoa
    Ho ! Tout doux ! ― Whoa! Easy!
  2. Used to express surprise or shock
    Ho mon Dieu ! ― Oh my God!

Further reading

  • “ho”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Etymology

From home (“man”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɔ/

Interjection

ho!

  1. used closing the sentence to bolster the attention of the listener; emphatic
    Para, ho! ― Stop!
    Non o volvo facer! Non ho! ― I'm not doing this again! No way!

References

  • Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ho”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
  • Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “ho”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
  • Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ho”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Guaraní

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ho/

Verb

ho (active, intransitive, irregular)

  1. to go

Conjugation

  • (che) aha
  • (nde) reho
  • (ha'e) oho
  • (ñande) jaha
  • (ore) roho
  • (peẽ) peho
  • (ha'ekuéra) oho

Hanunoo

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *həqə (“yes; expression of agreement”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhuʔ/ [ˈhoʔ]
  • Rhymes: -uʔ
  • Syllabification: ho

Interjection

hô (Hanunoo spelling ᜱᜳ)

  1. yes (word used to indicate agreement or acceptance)
Alternative forms
  • ho'

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhu/ [ˈho]
  • Rhymes: -u
  • Syllabification: ho

Pronoun

ho (Hanunoo spelling ᜱᜳ) (literary)

  1. 1st person nominative pronoun: I; me
    Synonyms: ako, (literary) kaa
Alternative forms
  • hom

Further reading

  • Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 128

Italian

Alternative forms

  • o (misspelling)
  • ò (obsolete)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɔ/*
  • (some parts of Central Italy) IPA(key): /ˈɔ/°
  • Rhymes: -ɔ

Verb

ho

  1. first-person singular present indicative of avere (“I have”)

References

Japanese

Romanization

ho

  1. The hiragana syllable ほ (ho) or the katakana syllable ホ (ho) in Hepburn romanization.

Lower Sorbian

Preposition

ho

  1. Obsolete spelling of wó.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Probably from Old Norse hó! (interjection, also, a shepherd's call).

Alternative forms

  • hoo

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɔː/

Interjection

ho

  1. stop, hold
Descendants
  • English: ho
  • Yola: ho
References
  • “hō, interj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Pronoun

ho

  1. Alternative form of who (“who”, nominative)

Etymology 3

Pronoun

ho

  1. Alternative form of he (“he”)

Etymology 4

Pronoun

ho

  1. Alternative form of heo (“she”)

Etymology 5

Pronoun

ho

  1. Alternative form of he (“they”)

Etymology 6

Noun

ho

  1. Alternative form of hough (“hough, hock”)

Etymology 7

Noun

ho

  1. Alternative form of hough (“promontory”)

Etymology 8

Noun

ho

  1. Alternative form of oo (“one”)

Muong

Alternative forms

  • hò

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɔ¹/

Pronoun

ho

  1. (Mường Bi) I; me

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse hon.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /huː/

Pronoun

ho (accusative henne, genitive hennes)

  1. (nonstandard, dialectal) she (form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by hun)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /huː/, [hu̞ː]
  • (Selbu) IPA(key): [hũ̞ː]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hón, from Proto-Germanic *hēnō (compare *ainaz). Cognate with Icelandic hún, Danish hun and Swedish hon.

Alternative forms

Pronoun

ho (accusative ho or henne, genitive hennar)

  1. she, it (third person singular, feminine)
    Ho er bestevenninna mi. ― She is my best friend.
  2. her
    Synonym: henne
    Eg ser ho. ― I see her.
Usage notes

Unlike other Scandinavian languages, Nynorsk ho is used to refer not only to feminine persons, but any feminine noun. E.g.: Boka er god. Eg likar ho. (“The book is good. I like it.”)

In some dialects, ho may precede a female given name or a definite singular feminine noun. E.g: e(r) ho mang(e) ho klokka no? (“what time is it now?”); det er ho Stine som kjem jo! (“It is Stine who is coming (over there)!”)

See also

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

  • hoe

Noun

ho f (definite singular hoa, indefinite plural hoer, definite plural hoene)

  1. female
    Hoa legg egga oppe i eit tre. ― The female lays the eggs up in a tree.

References

  • “ho” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Verb

hō

  1. first-person singular present indicative of hōn

Old Irish

Conjunction

ho

  1. Alternative spelling of ó

Preposition

ho

  1. Alternative spelling of ó

Orya

Noun

ho

  1. water

References

  • Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics), page 110

Romanian

Interjection

ho

  1. Used to calm or stop a domestic animal, especially horses; whoa.
    Ho! Ușor! ― Whoa! Easy!
  2. (vulgar) Used to calm down a person.
    Ho! Nu mai țipa ! ― Whoa! Stop screaming!

Slovak

Alternative forms

  • jeho, neho, oň (after prepositions)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɦɔ]

Pronoun

ho

  1. genitive/accusative of on and ono

Swedish

Etymology 1

Noun

ho c

  1. a trough; a long container for feeding or watering animals.
  2. a sink; often mounted to a wall; especially a kitchen sink or a washing sink.
    Synonym: diskho
Declension
Derived terms

See also

  • slasktratt (“sink (for discharging wastewater)”)

Etymology 2

See vem.

Pronoun

ho

  1. (archaic) who
    • 1541, Gustav Vasa Bible, Esaiah, 40:13-14
Usage notes
  • In earlier Swedish, ho was the nominative case form of vem (spelt hvem), corresponding to the difference between English who and whom. Unlike in English, where the oblique form gives way to the nominative, the reverse has happened in Swedish.
Related terms
  • vem

Etymology 3

See hon.

Pronoun

ho

  1. (dialectal) Alternative form of hon (“she”)

References

  • ho in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • ho in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • ho in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈhoʔ/ [ˈhoʔ]
  • Rhymes: -oʔ
  • Syllabification: ho

Particle

hô (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜓ)

  1. (familiar) honorific particle used while speaking to one's superior, elder, or guest
    Synonym: po
    Taga-saan naman ho kayo? ― Where are you from, sir/madam?
Usage notes
  • The word does not appear at a beginning of a sentence unless used alone.
  • The word ho is used more on informal, familiar or conversational contexts than po. On some dialects, this is not observed and may even be more used than po.
Derived terms
Related terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈho/ [ˈho]
  • Rhymes: -o
  • Syllabification: ho

Interjection

ho (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜓ)

  1. used to stop a horse, usually repeated
See also
  • la

Further reading

  • “ho”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Anagrams

  • Oh, oh

Tircul

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɦɔː/

Numeral

  1. 3 (three)

See also

  • (Pyu digits):           


Toba Batak

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)kahu, compare Malay kau and Tetum ó.

Pronoun

ho

  1. you

Uzbek

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَاء (ḥāʔ).

Noun

ho (plural holar)

  1. the Arabic letter ح

Declension

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *hɔː.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [hɔ˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [hɔ˧˧]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [hɔ˧˧]

Verb

ho • (呼, 𤵡)

  1. to cough

Derived terms

Warao

Noun

ho

  1. water

Descendants

  • Hosororo

References

  • Languages of hunter-gatherers and their neighbors, citing Andrés Romero-Figueroa, Warao, Lincom Studies in Native American Linguistics 06 (1997, Munich/ Newcastle: Lincom Europa)

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English ho, from Old Norse hó.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɔː/

Interjection

ho

  1. ho

Derived terms

  • ha-ho

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 90

Yoruba

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hó/

Verb

hó

  1. (transitive, of liquids) to boil
  2. (intransitive, of liquids) to become gaseous, to become boiled
  3. to form bubbles or lather
  4. to roar with noise
    òkún ń hó yee; ọ̀sà ń mì lẹ̀gbẹ̀ ― The sea was roaring; the lagoon was swaying majestically
Derived terms
Related terms
  • bọ́ (“to cook in boiling water”)

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

  • fó (Igbomina)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hó/

Verb

hó

  1. (transitive) to peel off the skin or bark of something
    Synonym: bó
Derived terms

Zhuang

Etymology

Cognate with Bouyei hol (“garlic”).

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Pronunciation

  • (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /ho˨˦/
  • Tone numbers: ho1
  • Hyphenation: ho

Noun

ho (1957–1982 spelling ho)

  1. garlic
    Synonym: suenq

Derived terms

  • gyaeujho

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