no

no

synonyms, antonyms, definitions, examples & translations of no in English

English Online Dictionary. What means no‎? What does no mean?

Translingual

Symbol

no

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

English

Alternative forms

  • nah, nope, nay

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /nəʊ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /noʊ/
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /nəʉ/, /nɐʉ/
  • Rhymes: -əʊ
  • Homophones: know, noh

Etymology 1

From Middle English no, noo, na, a reduced form of none, noon, nan (none, not any) used before consonants (compare a to an), from Old English nān (none, not any), from Proto-West Germanic *nain, from Proto-Germanic *nainaz (not any, literally not one), equivalent to ne (not) +‎ a.

Cognate with Scots nae (no, not any, none), Old Frisian nān, nēn ("no, not any, none"), Saterland Frisian naan, neen (no, not any, none), North Frisian nian (no, not any, none), Old Dutch nēn ("no, not any, none"; > Dutch neen (no)), Old Norse neinn (no, not any, none). Compare also Old Saxon nigēn ("not any"; > Low German nen), Old Dutch nehēn (Middle Dutch negheen/negeen, Dutch geen), West Frisian gjin, Old High German nihein (> German kein). More at no, one.

Determiner

no

  1. Not any.
    Antonyms: any, some
  2. Hardly any.
    Antonyms: quite, some
  3. Not any possibility or allowance of (doing something).
  4. Not (a); not properly, not really; not fully.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
  • Yes and no on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English no, na, from Old English , (no, not, not ever, never), from Proto-Germanic *nai (never), *ne (not), from Proto-Indo-European *ne, *nē, *nēy (negative particle), equivalent to Old English ne (not) + ā, ever, always. Cognate with Scots na (no), Saterland Frisian noa (no), West Frisian (no), nea (never), Dutch nee (no), Low German nee (no), German nie (never), dialectal German (no), Danish nej (no), Swedish nej (no), Icelandic nei (no). More at nay.

Adverb

no (not comparable)

  1. (with following adjective) not, not at all
    1. Used before different, before comparatives with more and less, and idiomatically before other comparatives.
    2. (informal) Used idiomatically before certain other adjectives.
  2. (without adjective, now Scotland, informal) not

Particle

no

  1. Used to show disagreement, negation, denial, refusal, or prohibition.
    Synonyms: nay, nope
    Antonyms: yes, yea, aye, maybe
  2. Used to show agreement with a negative question.
    Synonyms: nah, nay, nope
  3. (colloquial) Used together with an affirmative word or phrase to show agreement.
Descendants
  • American Sign Language: H^o@Side-PalmForward Flatten

Preposition

no

  1. without
  2. like
  3. (colloquial, usually humorous) not, does not, do not, etc.
Synonyms
  • See also Thesaurus:no
Coordinate terms
  • (Expression of negation): way
Derived terms
Translations

Noun

no (plural noes or nos)

  1. a negating expression; an answer that shows disagreement, denial, refusal, or disapproval
  2. a vote not in favor, or opposing a proposition
Synonyms
  • nope
  • nay
Antonyms
  • yes
  • yea
  • aye
Translations

Etymology 3

Variant of No., from the scribal abbreviation for Latin numero (in number, to the number of).

Adverb

no (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Alternative form of No.

Noun

no (plural nos)

  1. Alternative form of No.

See also

  • Thesaurus:quantifier

References

  • “no”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

  • -on, ON, ON., on, on-

Ainu

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [no̞]

Etymology 1

Particle

no (Kana spelling )

  1. Adverbialising particle; -ly, ing
    asirinew
    asiri nonewly
    pirikagood
    pirika nowell
    nukarato see
    nukara no anseeing (literally, “being seeing”)
    opittaall
    opitta no okayall (literally, “being all”)

Etymology 2

Particle

no (Kana spelling )

  1. Alternative form of ro

Alemannic German

Etymology

Related to German noch.

Pronunciation

  • (Zurich) IPA(key): /ˈnɔ/

Adverb

no

  1. still, yet
    Bisch no do?Are you still here?
  2. eventually (at an unknown time in the future)
    Er chunt scho no.He will come eventually.
  3. (only) just; barely (by a small margin)
    Sii hät grad no so gwunne.She just barely won.
  4. (with comparative) even
    Das isch sogar no schönner.This is even prettier.

Usage notes

  • (eventually): Often used together with an antecedent scho.
  • (just; barely): In this sense always used together with an antecedent grad.
  • (even): It can be used together with an antecedent sogar for amplification.

Particle

no

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Asturian

Etymology

From a contraction of the preposition en (in) + neuter singular article lo (the).

Contraction

no n (masculine nel, feminine na, masculine plural nos, feminine plural nes)

  1. in the

Atong (India)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /no/

Etymology 1

Verb

no- (Bengali script নো)

  1. to say

Etymology 2

From Hindi नौ (nau).

Numeral

no (Bengali script নো)

  1. nine
Synonyms
  • chykhyw
  • nain

References

  • van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. For "nine", stated in Appendix 3.

Awa (New Guinea)

Noun

no

  1. water

References

  • The Papuan Languages of New Guinea (1986, →ISBN

Bavarian

Etymology

From Old High German noh, from Proto-West Germanic *noh, from Proto-Germanic *nuh, from Proto-Indo-European *nū-kʷe-. Cognates include German noch, Yiddish נאָך (nokh) and Dutch nog, Dutch noch.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈno/

Adverb

no

  1. still, yet (up to and including a given time)
    Mia san no ned då.We're not there yet.
    Des geht si no aus.There's still time for that.
  2. yet, eventually (at an unknown time in the future)
    Mia wern scho no åkumma.We'll arrive eventually.
  3. additionally, in addition, besides, else; more often expressed in English with another, more
    No ana!Another one!
    Foid da no wås ei?Can you think of anything else?
  4. (only) just; barely (by a small margin)
    Is se gråd no ausgånga.We made it just in time.
  5. (with comparative) even
    Des is jå no depperter.That's even more stupid.

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Catalan no, from Latin nōn.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈno]
  • Rhymes: -o

Interjection

no

  1. no (negation; commonly used to respond negatively to a question)

Adverb

no

  1. not, main negation marker
    Antonyms: , hoc
    No tinc diners. No, I do not have money.
    No facis això. No, don't do that.

Derived terms

  • no-res
  • si més no

See also

  • pas

Noun

no m (plural nos)

  1. no

Further reading

  • “no” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “no”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “no” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “no” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Cebuano

Alternative forms

  • nohslang

Etymology

From Spanish no.

Interjection

no

  1. indicating surprise at, or requesting confirmation of, some new information; to express skepticism
  2. indicating that what was just said was obvious and unnecessary; contrived incredulity

Czech

Etymology

Short for ano (yes).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈno]

Interjection

no

  1. well, why
    No ne!Well, I never!

Adverb

no

  1. certainly, indeed, of course
  2. yeah, yep

Further reading

  • no in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • no in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Dimasa

Noun

no

  1. home

Dumbea

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /noː/

Noun

no

  1. mosquito

References

  • Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "ⁿDuᵐbea" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
  • Shintani, T.L.A. & Païta, Y. (1990) Dictionnaire de la langue de Païta, Nouméa: Sociéte d'etudes historiques de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Cited in: "Drubea" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [no]
  • Hyphenation: no

Noun

no (accusative singular no-on, plural no-oj, accusative plural no-ojn)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter N.

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

Ewe

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /no/

Noun

no

  1. breast

Verb

no

  1. to drink
  2. to suck

Fala

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /no/

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese non, from Latin nōn (not); probably influenced by Spanish no.

Adverb

no

  1. Alternative form of non (no, not)

Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese no, equivalent to en (in) +‎ o (masculine singular definite article).

Alternative forms

  • nu (Lagarteiru, Valverdeñu)

Contraction

no m sg (plural nos, feminine na, feminine plural nas)

  1. (Mañegu) in the

References

  • Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)[2], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Finnish

Etymology

Similar interjections can be found in other Finnic languages (compare Estonian no, noh, Ingrian no, Karelian no, Livonian no, noh, Ludian no, Votic no) and possibly also in other Uralic languages (compare Komi-Zyrian но (no), Udmurt но (no)). Compare also to those found in neighboring Indo-European languages (such as Swedish , Latvian nu, Russian ну (nu)), which may all trace back as far as Proto-Indo-European *nu. SSA concludes that the interjection is probably part original and part foreign.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈno/, [ˈno̞]
  • Rhymes: -o
  • Syllabification(key): no

Interjection

no

  1. well! (to acknowledge a situation; encouragement to answer or react; expressing the overcoming of reluctance to say something; exclamation of indignance)
    Alternative form: noh
    No sepä mukavaa!Well, that’s nice.
    No kai meidän sitten pitää käydä katsomassa.Well I guess we have to go look then.
    No, mikset mennyt juhliin?Well, why didn't you go to the party?
    Siellä oli, no, aika tylsää.It was, well, pretty boring there.
    No, et sinä nyt noin voi käyttäytyä!Well! You can't behave like that!

References

Further reading

  • no”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[3] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Anagrams

  • -on, on

French

Alternative forms

  • ,

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /no/

Noun

no m

  1. Abbreviation of numéro (number).

Anagrams

  • on

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin nōn.

Adverb

no

  1. no
    Antonym:

Fula

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adverb

no

  1. how?

Galician

Etymology 1

From contraction of preposition en (in) + masculine article o (the).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nʊ/

Contraction

no m (feminine na, masculine plural nos, feminine plural nas)

  1. in the

Etymology 2

From a mutation of o.

Pronoun

no m (accusative)

  1. Alternative form of o (him)
Usage notes

The n- forms of accusative third-person pronouns are used when the preceding word ends in -u or a diphthong, and are suffixed to the preceding word.

Related terms

Garo

Noun

no

  1. younger sister

Synonyms

  • nogipa (formal)
  • nono

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese nós. Cognate with Kabuverdianu nu.

Pronoun

no

  1. we

Hawaiian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /no/

Preposition

no

  1. for, belonging to, from

Usage notes

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

Hone

Noun

no

  1. husband

Further reading

  • Anne Storch, Hone, in Coding Participant Marking: Construction Types in Twelve African Languages, edited by Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English noFrench nonItalian noSpanish no. Paronym to ne.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /no/

Interjection

no

  1. no
    Antonym: yes

Ingrian

Etymology 1

Cognate with Finnish no and Estonian no. It is uncertain whether this word is natively Finnic or a borrowing from an Indo-European language (compare Russian ну (nu) and Swedish ).

Pronunciation

  • (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈno/, [ˈno̞]
  • (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈno/, [ˈno̞]
  • Rhymes: -o
  • Hyphenation: no

Interjection

no

  1. well

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Russian но (no).

Pronunciation

  • (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈno/, [ˈno̞]
  • (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈno/, [ˈno̞]
  • Rhymes: -o
  • Hyphenation: no

Conjunction

no

  1. but
Synonyms
  • mut, vaa
See also
  • odnako (however)

References

  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 343

Interlingua

Adverb

no

  1. no
    No, ille non travalia hodie.No, he is not working today.

Noun

no (plural nos)

  1. no
    Illa time audir un no.She is afraid of hearing no.

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin nōn.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnɔ/*
  • Rhymes:
  • Hyphenation:

Adverb

no

  1. no
    Antonym:
    dire di noto say no
  2. not
    Vieni o no?Are you coming or not?
    Perché no?Why not?
  3. (by ellipsis) Used to replace negated nouns or adjectives; non-, not
    Synonym: meno
    cattolici e noCatholics and non-Catholics
    prodotti nuovi e nonew and not new products
  4. Used at the end of a sentence as a sort of tag question or to emphasize a statement; isn't it so, right
    Synonyms: nevvero, neh
    Te l'ho già detto, no?I already told you, right?
Related terms
See also
  • non

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Japanese (, literally [performing] skill, talent).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnɔ/**
  • Rhymes:
  • Hyphenation:
  • Unlike the above word, this word may or may not trigger syntactic gemination in the following word.

Noun

no m (invariable)

  1. Noh (a type of Japanese drama)

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English no.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /no/°
  • Rhymes: -o
  • Hyphenation: no
  • Unlike the above words, this word is unstressed and never triggers syntactic gemination in the following word.

Determiner

no (invariable)

  1. no, anti-; found in numerous expressions borrowed from English, such as no comment, and in pseudo-anglicisms such as no logo (anti-globalization) and no-vax (anti-vax) (also written no vax)

Japanese

Romanization

no

  1. Rōmaji transcription of
  2. Rōmaji transcription of

Kalasha

Etymology

From Sanskrit नव (nava).

Numeral

no

  1. nine; 9

Kikuyu

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nɔ/

Particle

no

  1. (it is) only
    Gĩkũrũ kĩega no kĩratina. - The only good old thing is a sausage tree fruit (for fermenting muratina).
    Mũndũ ũtathiaga oigaga no nyina ũrugaga wega. - One who does not travel says only his/her mother's cooking is good.

Conjunction

no

  1. but
    Mĩano ndĩtukanagio no kanua. - The diviner's gourds do not get confused, but a mouth does.

References

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin non.

Adverb

no

  1. not
  2. no

Ladino

Adverb

no (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling נו)

  1. not

Interjection

no (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling נו)

  1. no

Lashi

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nak (black, evil). Cognates include Burmese နက် (nak) and Tibetan སྣག (snag).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /no/, [nɔ̃ʔ]

Adjective

no

  1. black

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /no/, /nɔ/

Adverb

no

  1. early

References

  • Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid[4], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *snāō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₂-yé-ti, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₂- (to flow, to swim). Cognate with Ancient Greek νάω (náō).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /noː/, [noː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /no/, [nɔː]

Verb

(present infinitive nāre, perfect active nāvī); first conjugation, no passive, no supine stem

  1. (intransitive) to swim
    Nat lupus inter oves.The wolf swims between the sheep.
    Nare contra aquamTo swim against the stream
    Piger ad nandumSlow at swimming
    Ars nandiThe art of swimming
    • 1st century BC, Lucretius, De rerum natura iii. 479.
  2. (intransitive) to float
    Synonym: fluitō
    Carinae nant freto.Ships float in the sea.
  3. (poetic, intransitive) to sail, flow, fly, etc.
    Per medium classi barbara navit Athon.The barbarian youth sailed its fleet through the middle of Athos.
    Undae nantes refulgent.The flowing waves glitter.

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • enō
  • innābilis
  • nāns, nantis (swimming, floating)
  • nāns, nantis m (a swimmer)
  • natō
  • trānō
  • nāre sine cortice (to do without a guardian, literally to swim without corks)
  • nāre per aestatem liquidam (to fly, literally to swim through cloudless summer)

References

  • no in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • no in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Latvian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Preposition

no

  1. from
    skaitīt no viens līdz desmitto count from one to ten
    viņš ir no Latvijashe is from Latvia
  2. out of
    iziet no istabasto go out of the room
  3. for
  4. of
    viens no viņa draugiemone of his friends
    izgatavots no kokamade of wood
  5. with
    no sirdswith all one's heart

Lombard

Adverb

no

  1. Alternative spelling of .

Louisiana Creole

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Probably from French "nous" or a clipping of Louisiana Creole "nouzòt" and/or French "nous autres".”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /no/
  • Rhymes: -o
  • Homophone:

Pronoun

no

  1. Alternative form of nouzòt (we, us)

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Middle High German nāh, from Old High German nāh, from Proto-West Germanic *nāhw, from Proto-Germanic *nēhw.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /noː/
    • Rhymes: -oː

Preposition

no (+ dative)

  1. after (in time)
  2. after (in a sequence)
  3. according to
  4. to, towards (a direction)

Derived terms

  • no an no

Adjective

no (masculine noen, neuter not, comparative méi no, superlative am nächsten)

  1. nearby, near, nigh
  2. close, closely related

Declension

Middle Dutch

Conjunction

  1. Alternative form of noch

Further reading

  • “no (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “no (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

Middle English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nɔː/
  • (early) IPA(key): /nɑː/

Etymology 1

From Old English , (adj).

Alternative forms

  • na

Adjective

no

  1. no
Descendants
  • English: no
  • Yola: na, no, nae
References
  • “nō, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From Old English , .

Alternative forms

  • na

Adverb

no

  1. not
Descendants
  • English: no
  • Yola: no, na
References
  • “nō, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Middle High German nāch, from Old High German nāh. Cognate with Cimbrian and German nach; see there for more.

Preposition

no

  1. (+ dative) after

Derived terms

  • nomitto

References

  • “no” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Mokilese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈno/, [ˈnõ]

Noun

no

  1. wave

Narua

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *na-ŋ (you).

Pronoun

no

  1. You (singular)

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

  • , nu

Adverb

no

  1. (obsolete) now (this very moment)

Usage notes

Part of the "Nazi reform" of 1941, made during Norwegian occupation by Germany. Almost exclusively used in texts made under occupation, and not generally considered a part of the official Bokmål chronology.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • nu, (dialectal)

Etymology

From Old Norse núna, derived from .

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nuː/

Noun

no n (definite singular noet, indefinite plural no, definite plural noa)

  1. moment; point in time

Adverb

no

  1. now

Derived terms

  • noverande

Interjection

no

  1. used when finding something out; when being irritated
    • Det kan no faen ikkje stemme at traktor'n var så billeg
      It can't be damn right that the tractor was so cheap
    • Er det no sånn at dåkk vil ikkje bli med på fjellturen?
      Is it so, that ya'll don't want to join on the mountain trip?
    • Eg skulle no vore på elgjakta no, men i staden for det må eg vera her og rydde.
      I was supposed to be on the moose hunt now, but I must be here and clean up instead.
    • Kom igjen no då!
      C'mon!

References

  • “no” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Notsi

Particle

no

  1. plural marker

Further reading

  • Language Complexity: Typology, Contact, Change, edited by Matti Miestamo, Kaius Sinnemäki, Fred Karlsson

Old English

Etymology

ne +‎ ā

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /noː/

Adverb

  1. Alternative form of

Old Irish

Conjunction

no

  1. Alternative spelling of

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

  • non

Etymology

From Latin non.

Adverb

no

  1. no
    Antonym: oc

Descendants

  • Occitan: non

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

Inherited from Sanskrit नः (naḥ, us).

Pronoun

no

  1. accusative/instrumental/genitive/dative plural of ahaṃ (us)

Etymology 2

Inherited from Sanskrit नो (no, and not).

Particle

no

  1. surely not
  2. indeed not
Usage notes

Sometimes reinforced by na (not)

Derived terms
  • no ce (unless)
  • noce (unless)

Etymology 3

Emphatic form of nu (then, now)

Particle

no

  1. indeed, then, now

References

Pali Text Society (1921–1925), “no”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese não and Spanish no and Kabuverdianu nau.

Adverb

no

  1. no
  2. not

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nɔ/
  • Rhymes:
  • Syllabification: no

Etymology 1

Clipping of ano. Compare Czech no, Masurian , Silesian no, Slovak no. First attested in the 19th century.

Interjection

no

  1. (colloquial) yeah, yep
    Synonyms: ano, tak

Particle

no

  1. used to state the speaker thinks something is obvious and that one should not ponder further; well, well yeah
  2. used to state that the speaker thinks everything that can be said has been said and would like to finish the topic
  3. (colloquial, hedge) expresses uncertainty; well
  4. (usually as a question) used to encourage the conversation partner to give a response; well?
  5. (often extended) used to express surprise, awe, or caution
  6. (colloquial) Filled pause, usually connecting a previous sentence; well
  7. introduces a question, often lightly emotionally charged
  8. used to draw attention to the current situation

Etymology 2

Clipping of ino, jeno, jedno. First attested in 1749. Compare Silesian no.

Particle

no

  1. emphatic particle used with imperatives to speed up a performed action; c'mon, now
    Synonym: ano
Derived terms

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), no is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 3 times in scientific texts, 0 times in news, 7 times in essays, 106 times in fiction, and 484 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 600 times, making it the 76th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

Further reading

  • no in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • no in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “no”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “no”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  • no in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: no

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese no, clipping of eno, from en (in) + o (the).

Contraction

no (feminine na, masculine plural nos, feminine plural nas)

  1. Contraction of em o (in the, on the).
Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:no.

Etymology 2

Pronoun

no

  1. Alternative form of o (third-person masculine singular objective pronoun) used as an enclitic following a verb form ending in a nasal vowel or diphthong
Usage notes
  • This form is not found in Brazilian speech.
Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:no.

Rohingya

Alternative forms

  • 𐴕𐴡 (no) - Hanifi Rohingya script

Etymology

From Sanskrit नवन् (navan, nine).

Numeral

no (Hanifi spelling 𐴕𐴡)

  1. nine

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nɔ(ː)/, /no/

Interjection

no

  1. (Transylvania) well, so

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

  • air neo, neo, na

Etymology

From Old Irish , , from Proto-Celtic *nowe (compare Welsh neu and Old Breton nou).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nɔ/, /nə/
  • Hyphenation: no

Conjunction

no

  1. or
  2. nor
  3. neither

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *nъ, (Russian но (no), ну (nu)), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *nu (Lithuanian nu), from Proto-Indo-European *nu (now), (Latin nun-c, Ancient Greek νῦν (nûn)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /no/

Conjunction

no (Cyrillic spelling но)

  1. (after a comparative, regional, dated, expressively) than (=nȅgo, ȍd)
    bolji no onbetter than him
    → (= modern)
    Izgledaš bolje no ikad.You' re looking better than ever.
    Proračunski manjak Grčke u bio je značajno veći no što je vlada proc(ij)enila.Greece's budget deficit was significantly bigger than the government had estimated.
  2. (denoting exclusion) but, however
    Pogrešno, no bio si dosta blizu.Wrong, but you were pretty close.
    No os(j)ećam samo sreću.But I can' t feel anything but happy.
    Tekst nije savršen, no nije li mogao biti bolji?The text is not perfect, but could it have been better?

Etymology 2

From Japanese ().

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nôː/

Noun

 m (Cyrillic spelling но̑)

  1. (theater) noh

Etymology 3

From the conjunction no.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /no/

Particle

no (Cyrillic spelling но)

  1. (in a dialog, when responding to the interlocutor) damn right!, you bet! very much so!

References

  • “no” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • “no” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • “no” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Shabo

Verb

no

  1. go

Siane

Noun

no

  1. water

References

  • The Papuan Languages of New Guinea (1986, →ISBN

Silesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnɔ/
  • Rhymes:
  • Syllabification: no

Etymology 1

Clipping of ano. Compare Polish no.

Particle

no

  1. used to state the speaker thinks something is obvious and that one should not ponder further; well, well yeah
  2. (usually as a question) used to encourage the conversation partner to give a response; well?

Etymology 2

Clipping of ino. Compare Polish no.

Particle

no

  1. emphatic particle used with imperatives to speed up a performed action; c'mon, now

Further reading

  • no in silling.org

Spanish

Etymology 1

From Old Spanish non, from Latin nōn (compare Catalan no, Galician non, French non, Italian no, Portuguese não, Romanian nu).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈno/ [ˈno]
  • Rhymes: -o
  • Syllabification: no

Adverb

no

  1. no
  2. not
Alternative forms
  • non (archaic)
Derived terms

Interjection

¿no?

  1. eh? (used as a tag question, to emphasise what goes before or to request that the listener express an opinion about what has been said)
Derived terms

Noun

no m (plural noes)

  1. no

Etymology 2

Contracted form of Latin numero, ablative singular of numerus (number).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnumeɾo/ [ˈnu.me.ɾo]
  • Rhymes: -umeɾo

Noun

no m (plural nos)

  1. Abbreviation of número.; no.
Alternative forms
  • , No., no.

Further reading

  • “no”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Sranan Tongo

Etymology 1

From English no.

Adverb

no

  1. no
  2. not

Etymology 2

Particle

no

  1. Precedes intensifiers, untranslatable

Tagalog

Particle

no (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜓ)

  1. Alternative spelling of 'no

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English no.

Adverb

no

  1. not

Derived terms

  • nogat

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *ɗɔː (satiated). Cognate with Arem dɑː.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [nɔ˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [nɔ˧˧]
  • (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [nɔ˧˧]

Adjective

no • (奴, 𩛂)

  1. full (of the stomach)
    Antonym: đói
  2. (archaic) full; complete
  3. (chemistry, of a solution) saturated
  4. (chemistry, of an organic compound) saturated

Usage notes

  • In modern usages, no only refers to the stomach being full, or by extension, a person having had enough to eat.

See also

Votic

Pronunciation

  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈno/, [ˈno]
  • Rhymes: -o
  • Hyphenation: no

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Cognate with Finnish no and Ingrian no.

Interjection

no

  1. well

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Russian но (no).

Conjunction

no

  1. but (when serving to contrast)

References

  • Hallap, V.; Adler, E.; Grünberg, S.; Leppik, M. (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language]‎[5], 2nd edition, Tallinn

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French nom, from Latin nōmen (name), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nɔ/

Noun

no m (plural nos)

  1. name

West Frisian

Adverb

no

  1. now

Derived terms

  • notiid

Further reading

  • “no”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Interjection

no

  1. eh, isn't it, true (at end of declarative sentence, forms question to prompt listener's agreement)

Further reading

  • “no”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

White Hmong

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nɒ˧/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *ʔnu̯ɔmH (cold).

Adjective

no

  1. (of weather) cold
    No no li.It's cold.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *ʔneinX (this).

Determiner

no

  1. an indicator of current or present location: this (place, time, person, thing)
    lub tsev nothis house
Derived terms

References

  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary[6], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 141.

Yola

Etymology 1

From Middle English no, from Old English .

Alternative forms

  • na

Adverb

no

  1. not
Derived terms
  • canna
  • dinna

Etymology 2

Determiner

no

  1. Alternative form of na

References

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