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sha

nounnounnouninterjectionattested in dialogue

  • /[ʃæː]/

The letter Ш, ш.

noun

  1. 1

    The letter Ш, ш.

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ша (ša).

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of shahAlternative form of shah (“king of Persia etc.”).

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of SHAAlternative letter-case form of SHA (“cryptographic hash”).

interjection

  1. 1

    dear, honey, hon

Etymology

Borrowed from Louisiana French cher, chère (“dear”).

Forms

plural
shas
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).