English - Pronunciation

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

English - Etymology 1

From Middle English ho, hoo (interjection), probably from Old Norse hó! (interjection, also, a shepherd's call). Compare 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
   • Shakespeare

     What noise there, ho?

   • Shakespeare

     Ho! who's within?

   • Bishop Joseph Hall

     Ho! all ye females that would live unshent, / Fly from the reach of Cyned's regiment.

Translations

Noun

ho

1. A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.
   • Decker

     There is no ho with them.

References

• 1996, T.F. Hoad, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192830988

English - Etymology 2

An eye dialect corruption of whore, from non-rhotic pronunciations considered typical of African American Vernacular English. Compare mo (“more”), fo' (“for; four”).

Noun

ho (plural hos or hoes)

1. (slang, pejorative) A whore; a sexually loose woman; in general use as a highly offensive name-calling word for a woman with connotations of loose sexuality.

   Bros before hos!

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:promiscuous woman

Translations

English - Anagrams

• oh, OH

Catalan - Pronunciation

• (Eastern) IPA^(key): /u/, /əw/
• (Western) IPA^(key): /u/, /ptw/, /o/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ptw/, /u/, /o/

Catalan - Etymology

From Latin hoc.

Catalan - 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.

Declension

Contraction

Proclictic

• m'ho
• s'ho
• t'ho

Enclictic

• -ens-ho
• -li-ho
• -los-ho
• 'ls-ho
• -m'ho
• 'ns-ho
• -s'ho
• -t'ho
• -us-ho
• -vos-ho

Chickasaw - Pronoun

ho

1. they

Czech - Pronoun

ho m, n

1. Accusative case of on.
2. Accusative case of ono.

Synonyms

• (accusative of on): jej

Esperanto - 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 ^{(Category: eo:Latin letter names)}

Esperanto - Interjection

ho

1. oh

Italian - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɔ

Italian - Verb

ho

1. first-person singular present indicative of avere - I have

Japanese - Romanization

ho

1. rōmaji reading of ほ
2. rōmaji reading of ホ

Lower Sorbian - Preposition

ho

1. obsolete spelling of wó

Middle English - Pronoun

ho

1. who

Norwegian Nynorsk - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /huː/ (example of pronunciation)

Norwegian Nynorsk - Etymology 1

From Old Norse hon.

Pronoun

ho (accusative ho or henne, genitive hennar)

1. she

   Ho er bestevenen min.

   She is my best friend.

2. her

   Er det ho som skal vera med?

   Is it her who is joining us?

Synonyms

• (her): henne

See also

Norwegian Nynorsk - 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.

Norwegian Nynorsk - References

• “ho” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Slovak - Pronoun

ho

1. short genitive singular of on
2. short accusative singular of on
3. short genitive singular of ono
4. short accusative singular of ono

Synonyms

• (long form): jeho
• (prepositional form): neho

Swedish - 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.

Declension

Related terms

• diskho
• tvättho

Swedish - Pronoun

ho

1. (obsolete) who
2. (dialectal) she

Swedish - See Also

• hon
• vem

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