intj
Meaning 1
Demanding silence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
shh
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ʃ̩ː/
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CMU ARPABET: SH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
intj
Meaning 2
Comforting one who is crying.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
An utterance of shh.
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noun
Meaning 4
Alternative form of SHH (“sonic hedgehog”); Abbreviation of sonic hedgehog.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, alternative, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 5
Initialism of sonic hedgehog homolog (protein).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: biochemistry, biology, chemistry, microbiology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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Synonyms: shh
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
Initialism of sonic hedgehog gene (“the gene encoding for the protein "sonic hedgehog"”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: biology, genetics, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
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Synonyms: shh
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 7
To utter shh.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, transitive
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History
Etymology
From hush. Likely imitative of a nonverbal utterance. Compare Scots whisht (“hush!”).
Across languages
Translations
60 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: սո՛ւս (sús) — requesting silence
- Asturian: chute — requesting silence
- Asturian: chutón — requesting silence
- Bulgarian: шшт (ššt) — requesting silence
- Catalan: moixoni — requesting silence
- Chinese Cantonese: 𭉝 (syu4) — requesting silence
- Chinese Cantonese: 殊 (syu4) — requesting silence
- Chinese Mandarin: 噓 /嘘 (xū, shī) — requesting silence
- Czech: pst — requesting silence
- Czech: pšt — requesting silence
- Czech: ticho — requesting silence
- Dutch: sst — requesting silence
- Esperanto: ŝŝ — requesting silence
- Esperanto: ĉit — requesting silence
- Finnish: shh — requesting silence
- Finnish: hys — requesting silence
- French: chut — requesting silence
- Georgian: ჩუ (ču) — requesting silence
- Georgian: ჩუმად (čumad) — requesting silence
- German: pst — requesting silence
- German: pscht — requesting silence
- German: scht — requesting silence
- Hebrew: שֶׁקֶט (shéket) — requesting silence
- Hungarian: pszt — requesting silence
- Hungarian: pssz — requesting silence
- Hungarian: csitt — requesting silence
- Irish: fuist — requesting silence
- Italian: zitto — requesting silence
- Italian: silenzio — requesting silence
- Italian: taci — requesting silence
- Japanese: しーっ (shīt) — requesting silence
- Japanese: 叱 (shi) — requesting silence
- Korean: 쉿 (swit) — requesting silence
- Northern Kurdish: hiş — requesting silence
- Latin: st — requesting silence
- Latin: tacē (te) — requesting silence
- Lithuanian: ša — requesting silence
- Lithuanian: cit — requesting silence
- Lithuanian: ššš — requesting silence
- Lombard: cito — requesting silence
- Norwegian: hysj — requesting silence
- Persian: هیس (hiss) — requesting silence
- Polish: sza — requesting silence
- Polish: ciii — requesting silence
- Portuguese: psiu — requesting silence
- Portuguese: psst — requesting silence
- Portuguese: shh — requesting silence
- Russian: тсс (tss) — requesting silence
- Russian: ш-ш-ш (š-š-š) — requesting silence
- Russian: ти́ше (tíše) — requesting silence
- Russian: ша (ša) — requesting silence
- Russian: чш (čš) — requesting silence
- Slovak: pst — requesting silence
- Spanish: chito — requesting silence
- Spanish: chitón — requesting silence
- Swahili: usu — requesting silence
- Swedish: shh — requesting silence
- Swedish: hyssj — requesting silence
- Turkish: şşş — requesting silence
- Vietnamese: suỵt — requesting silence