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o

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

Translingual

Letter

o (upper case O)

The fifteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /o/

Symbol

(IPA) close-mid back rounded vowel

Gallery

Letter styles

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /əʊ/
(US) IPA^(key): /oʊ/
Homophones: oh, owe
Rhymes: -əʊ

Letter

o (lower case, upper case O, plural o's)

The fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, called o and written in the Latin script.

Number

o (lower case, upper case O)

The ordinal number fifteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called o and written in the Latin script.

Noun

o (plural oes)

The name of the Latin-script letter O/o.
A zero (used in reading out numbers).

Alternative forms

Derived terms

okay
kayo
multiple o's

Translations

Etymology 2

Interjection

(archaic, always capitalized in modern usage) The English vocative particle, used before a pronoun or the name of a person or persons to mark direct address.
- 2007 (1640), The Bay Psalm Book, Cosimo Classics, p.37, 41 & 46:
  I lift my soule to thee o Lord
  
  mee, o Iehovah, heare
  
  In thee, o Lord, I put my trust
Alternative form of oh

Translations

Noun

(IRC) Operator
Object, see SVO

Adjective

Over

Etymology 3

Alternative spelling of o'

Preposition

Alternative form of of

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin illum, accusative form of ille (“that”).

Article

o m (definite singular)

Usage notes

Becomes l' before many words beginning with a vowel.
The form lo, either pronounced as lo or ro, can be found after words ending with an -o.
Eastern dialects use the form el.

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin aut.

Conjunction

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Cognate with Old Turkic [Term?].

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /ɔ/

Letter

o lower case (upper case O)

The twenty-first letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronoun

he, she, it

Declension

Borôro

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɔ/

Noun

tooth

Catalan

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

(Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈo/

Noun

o f (plural os)

The Latin letter O (lowercase o).

Etymology 2

From Latin aut.

Pronunciation

(Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈɔ/

Conjunction

Crimean Tatar

Pronoun

o (personal)

he, she, it

Pronoun

o (demonstrative)

that

Synonyms

(in the northern dialect) anav

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *o(b), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ebʰi.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /o/

Preposition

about
for

Usage notes

The meaning about is followed by locative case, while the second meaning, for, is followed by accusative case.

Danish

Particle

(elevated or humorous) Vocative particle.
- 1867, Sigurd MÜLLER, Digte, page 132
  O, du dødsens Sol / O, forbandede Sol, / Som har seet, hvad jeg saae!
  O sun of death / O accursed sun / Who has seen what I saw!
- Henrik Pontoppidan, Det forjættede land: Med forord af Kristian Bang Foss, Gyldendal A/S (→ISBN)
  ... løftede i ekstase blikket mod stjernehimlen og bad: „O, min Fader i det høje, ... du ... du alene forstøder mig ikke!
  ... ecstatically lifted his gaze towards the starry sky and prayed: "O my Father in the high, ... you ... you alone will not repudiate me!
- 1926, Tilskueren
  Min Elskede, o min Elskede. Sabine. Men Du maa bort.
  My beloved, o my beloved. Sabine. But you must leave.
- 1854, Henrik Wergelands Samlede Skrifter, page 341
  Giulio: […] O forhadte Venedig, aldrig meer jeg dig vil se!
  Giulio: […] O loathsome Venice, I never want see you again!

Dutch

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -oː
IPA^(key): /oː/

Interjection

Letter

o (lower case, upper case O)

The fifteenth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Letter

o (lower case, upper case O)

The nineteenth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called o and written in the Latin script.

Noun

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

The name of the Latin-script letter O/o.

Extremaduran

Conjunction

Fala

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese o, from Latin illo (“he”).

Article

o m (plural os, feminine a, feminine plural as)

masculine singular definite article (the)

Etymology 2

From Old Portuguese ou, from Latin aut (“or”).

Conjunction

Faroese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /oː/
Homophones: og, ov

Letter

o (upper case O)

The seventeenth letter of the Faroese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Finnish

Letter

o (lower case, upper case O)

The fifteenth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called oo and written in the Latin script.

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /o/
Rhymes: -o

Noun

o m (plural os)

The name of the Latin-script letter O/o.

Abbreviation

(computing) octet (B (byte))

Derived terms

(computing): ko, Mo, Go, To, Po, Eo, Zo, Yo
(computing): o/s, ko/s, Mo/s, Go/s, To/s, Po/s, Eo/s, Zo/s, Yo/s

Fula

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Letter

o (lower case, upper case O)

A letter of the Fula alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

Common to all varieties of Fula (Fulfulde / Pulaar / Pular).

Etymology 2

Suffix

o (plural ɓe)

Noun class indicator for nouns (singular) having to do with people, and for loan words

Usage notes

Common to all varieties of Fula (Fulfulde / Pulaar / Pular).

Pronoun

he, she (third person singular subject pronoun; short form)

Usage notes

Common to all varieties of Fula (Fulfulde / Pulaar / Pular).
This is used in all conjugations except for affirmative non-accomplished (where the long form is used).

Alternative forms

Related terms

omo (second person singular subject pronoun; long form)
himo (second person singular subject pronoun; long form; variant in Pular)
kanko (emphatic form)

Derived terms

makko (possessive pronoun)

Article

(definite) the (when it follows the noun)

Usage notes

Common to all varieties of Fula (Fulfulde / Pulaar / Pular).

Determiner

(used in indicating someone)

Usage notes

Common to all varieties of Fula (Fulfulde / Pulaar / Pular).

Galician

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /o̝/

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese o, from Latin illum, from ille.

Article

o m sg (feminine singular a, masculine plural os, feminine plural as)

(definite) the

Usage notes

The definite article o (in all its forms) regularly forms contractions when it follows the prepositions a (“to”), con (“with”), de (“of, from”), and en (“in”). For example, con o (“with the”) contracts to co, and en o (“in the”) contracts to no.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronoun

accusative of el

Usage notes

The Galician pronouns, being atones, are usually appended to the verb; though sandhi, o could acquire the form -no (for example, when appended to a verb form ended in a falling diphthong or in a nasal consonant, the nasal in -no having an antihiatic epenthetic origin) or -lo (when appended to a verb form ended in a -s or -r, the l having its origin in the assimilation of the -s or -r with the l present in the pronoun before the 12th century).

German

Interjection

O
- 1843, Gallus Schwab, Gebetbuch für katholische Christen, Bamberg, p.45:
  Sei gegrüßet, o Du mein Jesu! Mit tieftster Demuth bete ich Dich an und verehre Dich!

Gothic

Romanization

Romanization of 𐍉

Guaraní

Etymology

Clipping of óga.

Noun

house

Hawaiian

Conjunction

or, lest

Preposition

of, belonging to

Usage notes

Used for possessions that are inherited, out of personal control, and for things that can be got into (houses, clothes, cars), while a is used for acquired possessions.

Ido

Pronunciation

(context pronunciation, letter name) IPA^(key): /o/

Letter

o (upper case O)

The fifteenth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Conjunction

Apocopic form of od

Related terms

e (“and”)
a (“to”)

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin ō (the name of the letter O).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔ/
Rhymes: -ɔ
Stress: ò
Hyphenation: o
Homophone: ho

Noun

o f (invariable)

The name of the Latin-script letter O/o.

Etymology 2

Verb

Misspelling of ho.

Etymology 3

From Latin aut.

Alternative forms

od (used optionally before words beginning with a vowel)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /o/
Rhymes: -o
Stress: ó
Hyphenation: o

Conjunction

References

Japanese

Romanization

Rōmaji transcription of お
Rōmaji transcription of オ
Rōmaji transcription of を
Rōmaji transcription of ヲ

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin aut.

Conjunction

Latin

Alternative forms

ô (for the vocative particle)
ōh (for the interjection meaning "oh")

Etymology 1

Letter

A letter of the Latin alphabet.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /oː/

Noun

ō (indeclinable)

The name of the letter O.

Coordinate terms

(Latin-script letter names) littera; ā, bē, cē, dē, ē, ef, gē, hā, ī, kā, el, em, en, ō, pē, kū, er, es, tē, ū, ix / īx / ex, ȳ / ī graeca / ȳpsīlon, zēta

References

o in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
o in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
o in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
o in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
o in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Arthur E. Gordon, The Letter Names of the Latin Alphabet (University of California Press, 1973; volume 9 of University of California Publications: Classical Studies), part III: “Summary of the Ancient Evidence”, page 32: "Clearly there is no question or doubt about the names of the vowels A, E, I, O, U. They are simply long A, long E, etc. (ā, ē, ī, ō, ū). Nor is there any uncertainty with respect to the six mutes B, C, D, G, P, T. Their names are bē, cē, dē, gē, pē, tē (each with a long E). Or about H, K, and Q: they are hā, kā, kū—each, again, with a long vowel sound."

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /oː/

Interjection

o! (vocative particle)
- 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Judges 3:19
  et reversus de Galgalis ubi erant idola dixit ad regem verbum secretum habeo ad te o rex et ille imperavit silentium egressisque omnibus qui circa eum erant (Then returning from Galgal, where the idols were, he said to the king: I have a secret message to thee, O king. And he commanded silence: and all being gone out that were about him,)
oh!

Latvian

Etymology

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [uə̯], IPA^(key): [o], IPA^(key): [oː]

Letter

o (lower case, upper case O)

The twenty-third letter of the Latvian alphabet, called o and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

In native Latvian words (and in some older borrowings), o represents the sound of IPA [uə̯] (e.g., otrs [uə̯tɾs]). In more recent borrowings, it represents the original sound of the word, i.e. [o] or [oː] (e.g., opera [oːpeɾa]).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [o]

Noun

o m (invariable)

The name of the Latin script letter O/o.

Ligurian

Etymology

From earlier ro ← lo, from Latin illum, form of ille (“that”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /u/

Article

o m sg (plural i)

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *ō; compare Proto-Slavic *a (“and, but”). From Proto-Indo-European *h₁od; compare Sanskrit आत् (āt, “afterwards, then, so”), Avestan 𐬁𐬀𐬝‎ (āat̰, “afterward, then”), perhaps the ablative singular of *h₁e- (“demonstrative pronoun”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /oː/

Conjunction

(coordinating, adversative) and, but (used to express binary contrasts)

Livonian

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /o/

Letter

o (upper case O)

The twenty-second letter of the Livonian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Malay

Letter

The fifteenth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Mandarin

Romanization

Nonstandard spelling of ō.
Nonstandard spelling of ó.
Nonstandard spelling of ǒ.
Nonstandard spelling of ò.

Usage notes

English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Maori

Particle

of
2006, Joanne Barker, Sovereignty Matters, page 208:
In 1979 a gathering of elders at the Waananga kaumatua affirmed te reo Maori “Ko te reo te mauri o te mana Maori” the language is the life principle of Maori mana.

Usage notes

Used instead of a when the possessor has no control over the relationship (inalienable possession).

Middle English

Article

Alternative form of oo

Middle Low German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *awjō. Cognate with Old Norse ey (Swedish ö, Norwegian øy).

Pronunciation

Stem vowel: ȫ²
- (originally) IPA^(key): /œːj/

Noun

island

Navajo

Letter

The twenty-second letter of the Navajo alphabet:
o = /o˨/

ǫ = /õ˨/

ó = /o˥/

ǫ́ = /õ˥/

oo = /oː˨˨/

ǫǫ = /õː˨˨/

óo = /oː˥˨/

ǫ́ǫ = /õː˥˨/

oó = /oː˨˥/

ǫǫ́ = /õː˨˥/

óó = /oː˥˥/

ǫ́ǫ́ = /õː˥˥/

Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin aut.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /oː/

Particle

Norwegian

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /uː/
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /uː/, /ʊ/, /ɔ/

Letter

The 15th letter of the Norwegian alphabet.

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From earlier lo, la, from Latin illum, illam (the initial l having disappeared; compare Spanish lo and la).

Pronunciation

(article): IPA^(key): /o/

Article

the (masculine singular definite article)
- 13th Century - Cantiga de Santa Maria no. 23
  Esta é como Santa Maria acrecentou o vinho no tonel, por amor da bõa dona de Bretanha.
  This is how Holy Mary added the wine to the barrel, out of love for the good lady of Britain;
- 13th Century - Cantiga de Santa Maria no. 48
  Esta é como Santa Maria tolheu a agua da fonte ao cavaleiro.
  This is how Holy Mary restricted the water of the fountain from the knight.

Usage notes

O becomes -no and a becomes -na after nasal sounds:
Non queria o meu coraçon nen-nos meus olhos.
She wanted neither (the) my heart nor (the) my eyes.

Ambas eran-nas melhores que (h)omen pode cousir.
Both were the best that (a) man can contemplate.
O becomes -lo and a becomes -la after other consonants, and the preceding consonant is elided:
E vós faredes depoi-lo melhor!
And later ye shall do the best.

Sobre toda-las bondades que ela (h)avia era que muito fiava en Santa Maria;
Above all the virtues she possessed was how much she trusted Holy Mary.
O becomes el- in front of the noun rei:
Deu ora el-rei seus dinheiros a Belpelho.
The king, then, gave his money to Belpelho.

Se fosse seu o tesouro que el-rei de França ten.
Were it his the treasure that the king of France has.

Descendants

Galician: o
Portuguese: o

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *o(b), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ebʰi

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔ/

Preposition

(+ locative) about (concerning)
(+ locative) at (telling the time)
(+ locative, used in descriptions) with
(+ accusative) on, against
(+ accusative) for
(+ accusative) by (a difference)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(letter): IPA^(key): /ˈɔ/, /ˈo/
(article, pronoun): IPA^(key): /u/, /ʊ/

Etymology 1

Letter

o (lower case, upper case O)

The fifteenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

From Old Portuguese o (compare Galician o), from Vulgar Latin lo, *illu, from Latin illum, from ille (with an initial l having disappeared; compare Spanish lo).

Article

o m (feminine a, masculine plural os, feminine plural as)

the (masculine singular definite article)
- 2003, Lya Wyler (translator), J. K. Rowling (English author), Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix), Rocco, page 75:
  Não o perdoou por abandonar o serviço em vez de seguir você.
  She didn't forgive him for abandoning his service instead of following you.
- 2005, Lya Wyler (translator), J. K. Rowling (English author), Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince), Rocco, page 135:
  Não vi o tempo passar.
  I didn't notice the time passing.
- 2005, Lya Wyler (translator), J. K. Rowling (English author), Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince), Rocco, page 361:
  [...] disse o professor com um sorrisinho [...]
  [...] the teacher said with a little smile [...]

Usage notes

Usage of the definite article in Portuguese has some differences from that of English, such as:

it can be used with abstract mass nouns:
it can be optionally used with adjectival possessive pronouns, and mandatorily with substantival possessive pronouns:
it can be used with personal names:
it can be used without a possessive pronoun when referring to a relative:
more often than in English, it used with a singular to indicate a generic example of, or the noun in general:

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:o.

Pronoun

o m (personal)

him, it (as a direct object; as an indirect object, see lhe; after prepositions, see ele).
- 2003, Lya Wyler (translator), J. K. Rowling (English author), Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix), Rocco, page 75:
  Não o perdoou por abandonar o serviço em vez de seguir você.
  She didn't forgive him for abandoning his service instead of following you.
- 2007, Lya Wyler (translator), J. K. Rowling (English author), Harry Potter e as Relíquias da Morte (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows), Rocco, page 287:
  Por que, então, ela o conduzira àquele lugar?
  Why, then, did she lead him to that place?

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:o.

Usage notes

Becomes -lo after verb forms ending in -r, -s, or -z, the pronouns nos and vos, and the adverb eis; the ending letter causing the change disappears.
After ver:

After conheces:

After fiz:

After nos:

After eis:
Becomes -no after a nasal sound:
In the colloquial speech of some parts of Brazil, it is being abandoned in favor of the nominative form ele.

Rapa Nui

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /o/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *o.

Particle

possessive particle marking an inalienable possession; of
2008, Sharon Chester, A wildlife guide to Chile, page 15:
Polynesians are thought to have arrived at Easter Island around AD 800. They called the island Rapa Nui, or more familiarly Te Pito o Te Henua, the Navel of the World.

Usage notes

Inserted before the relevant pronoun. Only for possessions like hands or parents that do not have the ability to no longer be yours; otherwise, use a.

Etymology 2

From Spanish o (“or”).

Conjunction

Usage notes

Generally used in favor of complex native grammatical structures used to achieve the same ends.

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [o]

Etymology 1

Letter

o (lowercase, capital O)

The eighteenth letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phoneme /o/. Preceded by n and followed by p.

Usage notes

See O.

Etymology 2

From Latin ūna, feminine of ūnus.

Article

feminine singular nominative form of un: a/an (indefinite article)
feminine singular accusative form of un: a/an (indefinite article)

Related terms

Etymology 3

Interjection

Etymology 4

From a root *eaua, from Latin illam, accusative feminine singular of ille.

Pronoun

o f (unstressed accusative form of ea)

(direct object) her

Related terms

îl (masculine equivalent)
le (plural)

Etymology 5

Verb

(el/ea) o (modal auxiliary, third-person singular form of vrea, used with infinitives to form presumptive tenses)

(he/she) might

Samoan

Preposition

Scots

Preposition

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Preposition

from

Derived terms

The following prepositional pronouns:

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /o/

Letter

o (Cyrillic spelling о)

The 21st letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by nj and followed by p.

Alternative forms

O (uppercase)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *o(b), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ebʰi. See o-, ob-.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /o/

Preposition

o (Cyrillic spelling о)

(+ accusative case) on, against
(+ locative case) about, concerning, of, on

Synonyms

(Croatia) ob

Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /o/

Letter

o (upper case O)

The twenty-fourth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *o(b), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ebʰi.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔ/

Preposition

(with locative) about, concerning

Somba-Siawari

Noun

water
liquid
river

References

Kaija Olkkonen, Soini Olkkonen, Somba-Siawari (Burum Mindik)—English dictionary (2007)

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /o/

Etymology 1

Letter

o (lower case, upper case O)

The sixteenth letter of the Spanish alphabet, called o and written in the Latin script.

Noun

o f (plural oes)

Name of the letter O.

Etymology 2

From Latin aut.

Alternative forms

ò (archaic)
ó (used near numbers to avoid confusion with a zero: 2 ó 3)
u (used before words beginning with an ‘o’ sound: u otros, u hombre)

Conjunction

o … o

either … or

Antonyms

ni … ni

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Particle

Marker for the future tense.

Swedish

Pronunciation

Letter name

IPA^(key): /uː/

Phoneme

IPA^(key): /uː/, /ʊ/, /oː/, /ɔ/

Letter

o (lower case, upper case O)

The fifteenth letter of the Swedish alphabet, called o and written in the Latin script.

Interjection

O (particle)
Så låt nu, o konung, härom utfärda ett förbud och sätta upp en skrivelse

Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing (Daniel 6:8)

Noun

o n

the letter o
the Greek letter omega, being the last letter of the Greek alphabet
Jag är A och O, den förste och den siste, begynnelsen och änden.
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. (Revelations 22:13)

Declension

Alternative forms

Conjunction

Abbreviation of och (“and”).

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish o (“or”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔː/

Conjunction

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English or.

Conjunction

Turkish

Etymology

Merger of Old Anatolian Turkish ol‎ and an‎ (“she, he, it, that”), from Old Turkic 𐰆𐰞‎ (ol) and [script needed] (an), respectively; both from Proto-Turkic.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

he, she, it

Pronoun

o (demonstrative)

that

Letter

o (lower case, upper case O)

The eighteenth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called o and written in the Latin script.

Noun

The name of the Latin-script letter O/o.

Turkmen

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /o/, /oː/

Letter

o (upper case O)

The eighteenth letter of the Turkmen alphabet, called o and written in the Latin script.

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɔ˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɔ˧˧]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɔ˧˧]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Vietic *ʔɔː

Noun

(Thanh Hoá dialect, Nghệ An dialect, Hà Tĩnh dialect) paternal aunt, father's sister

Synonyms

Related terms

trượng, dượng

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Portuguese ó.

Noun

The name of the Latin-script letter O/o.

Related terms

ô; ơ

Volapük

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /o/

Particle

vocative case particle

Welsh

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /oː/

Etymology 1

Pronoun

he, him

Usage notes

O is used predominantly in the north of Wales, while e is used in the south, with fo and fe as variants of o and e respectively. In formal Welsh, the equivalent pronoun is ef.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Brythonic *o, from Proto-Celtic *ɸo, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó.

Preposition

of
from

Inflection

Zazaki

Pronoun

o (demonstrative)

that

Zulu

Letter

o (lower case, upper case O)

The fifteenth letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.

o

o

Translingual

Letter

Pronunciation

Symbol

Gallery

See also

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Letter

See also

Number

Noun

Alternative forms

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Etymology 2

Interjection

Translations

Noun

Adjective

Etymology 3

Preposition

Further reading

Aragonese

Etymology

Article

Usage notes

Asturian

Etymology

Conjunction

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Pronunciation

Letter

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Pronoun

Declension

Borôro

Pronunciation

Noun

Catalan

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Conjunction

Crimean Tatar

Pronoun

Pronoun

Synonyms

Czech

Etymology

Pronunciation

Preposition

Usage notes

Danish

Particle

Dutch

Pronunciation

Interjection

Letter

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

Letter

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Noun

See also

Extremaduran

Conjunction

Fala

Etymology 1

Article

Etymology 2

Conjunction