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Translingual

Letter

o (upper case O)

The fifteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
(superscript) See º.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /o/

Symbol

(IPA) a close-mid back rounded vowel.
(superscript ⟨ᵒ⟩, IPA) [o]-coloring or a weak, fleeting, epenthetic or echo [o].
(phonetics, superscript ⟨ᵒ⟩) marks a labialized consonant.

Gallery

Letter styles

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

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

Letter

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

The fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, called o and written in the Latin script.
Alternative form of ο, the fifteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets, called omicron and (astronomy) used as an abbreviation of omicron in star names.

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.
A zero (used in reading out numbers).

Alternative forms

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Particle

(nonstandard) alternative form of O (vocative particle)

Translations

Interjection

Alternative form of oh

Noun

(IRC, acronym of) Operator
(acronym of) Object, see SVO

Adjective

Over

Etymology 3

See o'.

Preposition

Alternative form of of

Etymology 4

Abbreviations.

(stenoscript) a word-initial letter ⟨o⟩.
(stenoscript) the long vowel /oʊ/ at the end of a word, or before a final consonant that is not /dʒ, v, z/. (Note: the final consonant is not written; [ɔə˞], [ɔː˞] count as /oʊr/.)
Thus the words or, owe.
(stenoscript) the words on, so.

Albanian

Alternative forms

-o

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /oː/

Particle

O (emphatic vocative marker of nouns)

Usage notes

Used with indefinite forms only. Can be placed either before or after the noun:

Qup (“Coby”, indefinite) + -o → Qup-o (“O Coby”).
o + Qup → o Qup (“O Coby”).

Aragonese

Etymology

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

Article

o m (definite singulars)

the
O río Ebro ― The Ebro River

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 1

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.

Etymology 2

From Old Anatolian Turkish اول (ol), Proto-Turkic *ol.

Pronoun

o (definite accusative onu, plural onlar)

he, she, it
O evdə deyil ― S/he is not at home.

O çox yaxşı insandır. ― S/he is a very good person.

Declension

Derived terms

onunku

Determiner

that, that one
Antonym: bu

O evdə deyil ― S/he isn't at that house.

Basque

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /o/, [o̞]

Letter

o (lower case, upper case O)

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

Noun

o (indeclinable)

The name of the Latin-script letter O.

Borôro

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɔ/

Noun

tooth

Breton

Determiner

o (requires spirant mutation)

their
o zad ― their father

Catalan

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈo]

Noun

o f (plural os)

the Latin letter O (lowercase o)

Etymology 2

From Latin aut.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈɔ]

Conjunction

Derived terms

o bé

Corsican

Etymology

From Latin aut. Cognates include Italian o and Spanish o.

Conjunction

References

http://infcor.adecec.net/

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ol. Compare Turkish o and Azerbaijani o.

Pronoun

(personal pronoun) he, she, it
Synonym: (Northern dialect) anav
(demonstrative pronoun) that

Czech

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /o/

Preposition

o [+locative]

about

Preposition

o [+accusative]

Danish

Particle

(higher register or humorous) Vocative particle.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:o.

Dutch

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -oː
IPA^(key): /oː/

Interjection

Letter

o (lower case, upper case O)

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

Esperanto

Pronunciation

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

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.

Estonian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈoː/, [ˈoː]

Letter

o (lower case, upper case O)

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

Extremaduran

Etymology

From Latin aut. Cognates include Spanish o and Italian o.

Conjunction

Fala

Etymology 1

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

Article

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

(Mañegu) Masculine singular definite article; the

Pronoun

(Mañegu) Third person singular masculine accusative pronoun; him

Etymology 2

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

Conjunction

References

Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[3], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

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

Etymology

The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on those of Swedish, German and Latin, and was first used in the mid-16th century. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and o for information on the development of the glyph itself.

Pronunciation

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.

Derived terms

e dans l’o

Symbol

(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

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

Derived terms

makko (possessive pronoun)

Related terms

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

Article

(definite) the (when it follows the noun)
Debbo o ― the woman

Usage notes

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

Determiner

used in indicating someone
O debbo ― this/that woman

Usage notes

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

Galician

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /o̝/, [ʊ]

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

Article

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

masculine singular definite article; the

Usage notes

The definite article o (in all its forms), due to historical sandhi, 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.
The definite article o (in all its forms), due to historical sandhi, contracts with preceding words which ends in [s] or [r] into the second form of the article lo (la, los, las); this feature, frequent in spoken Galician, is not always marked in the written language. When done, a hyphen is used to separate both words:

Debes comer o caldo ~ Debes come-lo caldo ― You should eat the soup

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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

Pronunciation

Interjection

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.

Hungarian

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA^(key): [ˈo]
(letter name): IPA^(key): [ˈo]

Letter

o (lower case, upper case O)

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

Declension

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”)

Igbo

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /o/

Letter

o (upper case O)

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

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

ọ (retracted tongue position)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /o/

Pronoun

o (dependent form, independent form ya)

(personal, epicene) he, she, it

Indonesian

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /o/
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /o/, [o], [ɔ]

Letter

o (lower case, upper case O)

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

Italian

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɔ/^*
Homophone: ho
Rhymes: -ɔ
Hyphenation: ò

Letter

o f or m (invariable, lower case, upper case O)

The thirteenth letter of the Italian alphabet, called o and written in the Latin script.

Noun

o f (invariable)

The name of the Latin-script letter O.

Etymology 2

From Latin aut.

Alternative forms

od (used optionally before words beginning with a vowel)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /o/^*, /o/
Rhymes: -o
Hyphenation: o

Conjunction

References

Etymology 3

Verb

Misspelling of ho.

Italiot Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὁ (ho)

Article

Japanese

Romanization

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

Kapampangan

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈo/, [ˈo]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish o (“or”).

Conjunction

or
Synonyms: o kaya, ekaya

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Particle

(colloquial) sentence-ending particle used to express warning or to catch someone's attention. See also oy, uy and ay.
(colloquial) used as a vocative particle to address the topic in question.

Interjection

(colloquial) expression of surprise, wonder, amazement, or awe: oh!
Synonyms: ba, aru, uru
(colloquial) used to refer to something given or offered to someone: here you are! here you go!
Synonyms: aini, aita, ayan

Kashubian

Etymology

The Kashubian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Kashubian alphabet article on Wikipedia for more, and o for development of the glyph itself.

Letter

o (lower case, upper case O)

The twentieth letter of the Kashubian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Khumi Chin

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʔo˧/

Noun

References

K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin‎^[4], Payap University, page 47

Kikuyu

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔ/

Pronoun

o (third person plural)

they

Related terms

-ao (“their”)

References

“o” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 355. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin aut.

Conjunction

Latin

Etymology 1

From Etruscan letter 𐌏 (o), from Ancient Greek letter ο (o, “omicron”), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤏 (ʿ, “ayin”), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓁹.

Letter

A letter of the Latin alphabet.

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /oː/, [oː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /o/, [ɔː]

Noun

ō f (indeclinable)

The name of the letter O.

Coordinate terms

(Latin-script letter names) littera; ā, bē, cē, dē, ē, ef, gē, hā / *acca, 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
o in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[5], 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

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὦ (ô), cognate, or onomatopoeic.

Alternative forms

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

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /oː/, [oː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /o/, [ɔː]

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 1

IPA^(key): [uə̯], [o], [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 2

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. Cognate with Latgalian a and 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)
Taĩ ne kažkàs, ką̃ víenas gãli darýti, õ kìtas – nè. ― It's not something that some people can do and others can't.

Livonian

Pronunciation

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

Letter

o (upper case O)

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

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔ/

Letter

o (upper case O)

The twenty-first letter of the Lower Sorbian alphabet, called o and written in the Latin script.
The name of the Latin-script letter o.

Malay

Letter

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

Maltese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔ/ (short phoneme)
IPA^(key): /ɔː/ (long phoneme)
In inherited words, long o occurs only next to vowelised għ or h. In Romance words, it can be long on its own.

Letter

o (lower case, upper case O)

The nineteenth letter of the Maltese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Mandarin

Romanization

o (o⁵／o⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄛ)

Hanyu Pinyin reading of 哦

Romanization

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

Usage notes

Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Maori

Particle

Usage notes

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

Masurian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish o, from Proto-Slavic *o, ultimately a natural expression.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈɔ]
Syllabification: o

Interjection

oh! expression of surprise or outrage

Particle

vocative particle; O!

Mbyá Guaraní

Verb

to go

Conjugation

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French oh, from Latin ō.

Alternative forms

oo, oa

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔː/

Interjection

oh, ah

Descendants

English: oh
Yola: o

References

“ō, interj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Article

(rare) Alternative form of an (preconsonantal)

Etymology 3

Numeral

Alternative form of oo (“one”)

Adjective

Alternative form of oo (“first”)

Middle Irish

Preposition

Alternative spelling of ó

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

Mokilese

Etymology

From Proto-Chuukic *yawo, from Proto-Micronesian *awo, from Proto-Oceanic *apon, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hapən.

Noun

fishing line

Navajo

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /o˨/

Letter

The twenty-second letter of the Navajo alphabet
ǫ = /õ˨/

ó = /o˥/

ǫ́ = /õ˥/

oo = /oː˨˨/

ǫǫ = /õː˨˨/

óo = /oː˥˨/

ǫ́ǫ = /õː˥˨/

oó = /oː˨˥/

ǫǫ́ = /õː˨˥/

óó = /oː˥˥/

ǫ́ǫ́ = /õː˥˥/

Neapolitan

Etymology 1

From Latin aut.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /oː/

Particle

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /o/

Article

o m

Alternative spelling of 'o (“the”)

Pronoun

o m (accusative)

Alternative spelling of 'o (“him, it”)

Norwegian

Pronunciation

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

Letter

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Letter

o (upper case O, definite singular o-en, indefinite plural o-ar, definite plural o-ane)

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

Interjection

(dated or humorous) oh

Pronoun

(eye dialect) pronunciation spelling of ho

References

“o” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Nupe

Pronunciation

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

Letter

o (lower case, upper case O)

The eighteenth letter of the Nupe alphabet, written in the Latin script.

O'odham

Particle

future tense marker: will; going to.

Usage notes

Not to be confused with ʼo, the third person copula.

References

Zepeda, Ofelia (1983) A Tohono Oʼodham Grammar, Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, page 169

Occitan

Etymology 1

From Latin aut.

Conjunction

Etymology 2

Noun

o f (plural os)

o (the letter o, O)

Old Galician-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

Old Irish

Preposition

Alternative spelling of ó

Noun

Alternative spelling of ó

Mutation

Old Polish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /ɔ/
IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ɔ/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *o(b). First attested in the 14th century.

Preposition

about, concerning [+accusative] or [+locative]
on, against [+accusative]
because of [+accusative]
denotes location; at [+accusative]
denotes location; at [+locative]
with, by means of [+locative]
(used in descriptions) with, having [+locative]
for [+accusative]

Descendants

Masurian: ô
Polish: o
Silesian: ô

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *o. First attested in the 14th century.

Interjection

oh! expression of surprise or outrage

Descendants

Masurian: o
Polish: o

References

B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “o”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin ubi (“where”). Cognate with French où (“where”), Italian dove (“where”), Portuguese u (“where”).

Adverb

where

Usage notes

O has been displaced in Modern Spanish by donde.
O can be encountered in some Modern Spanish words such as doquiera (do (contraction of de ("of") + o ("where")) + quiera ("it may want"), literally " where it may want") and its apocopic form, doquier.

Pnar

Etymology

Compare Lamet [Nkris] ʔɔːʔ, Riang [Sak] ʔoʔ¹.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʔɔ/

Pronoun

Usage notes

It identifies A or S arguments and therefore "nominative". Its topic-position and accusative counterpart is nga.

Polish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔ/
(Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈɔ/
Rhymes: -ɔ
Syllabification: o
Homophone: -o

Etymology 1

The Polish orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the history of Polish orthography article on Wikipedia for more, and o for development of the glyph itself.

Letter

o (upper case O, lower case)

The twentieth letter of the Polish alphabet, called o and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Polish o.

Preposition

about (concerning) [+locative]
Opowiedz mi o twojej pracy. ― Tell me about your job.

Ta książka jest o potędze miłości. ― This book is about the power of love.
at (telling the time) [+locative]
Spotkajmy się o piątej po południu. ― Let's meet at five PM.
(used in descriptions) with, having [+locative]
Była piękną kobietą o długich jasnych włosach. ― She was a beautiful woman with long fair hair.

chłopiec o zielonych oczach ― a boy with green eyes; a green-eyed boy
on, against [+accusative]
Nie opierajcie się o te drzwi. ― Don't lean on this door.

Dziewczynka uderzyła głową o stół. ― The little girl hit her head on the table.
for [+accusative]
Weronika poprosiła mnie wczoraj o pomoc. ― Veronica asked me for help yesterday.

Walczyliśmy dzielnie o naszą wolność. ― We were bravely fighting for our freedom.
by (a difference) [+accusative]
Spóźniła się o piętnaście minut. ― She was fifteen minutes late.

Czuję się o wiele lepiej. ― I feel much better.

Obniż podkład o dwa półtony. ― Lower the instrumental by two semitones.

Etymology 3

Inherited from Old Polish o, from Proto-Slavic *o, ultimately a natural expression.

Interjection

oh! expression of surprise or outrage
O mój boże... ― Oh my god...

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), o is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 533 times in scientific texts, 598 times in news, 724 times in essays, 607 times in fiction, and 610 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 3072 times, making it the 14th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(letter): IPA^(key): /ɔ/, /o/
(article, pronoun): IPA^(key): /u/

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 Galician-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)

Usage notes

For the most part, usage of the definite article in Portuguese is the same as in English. Some differences include:

it is optionally but commonly used with abstract mass nouns:
O amor é melhor que a guerra. ― Love is better than war.
in Brazil, it can be optionally used with adjectival possessive pronouns, and mandatorily with substantival possessive pronouns; both are mandatory in Portugal:
(O) meu livro é melhor que o seu. ― My book is better than yours.
it can be used with personal names; often this indicates familiarity with the person (due to personal connection with them or because they are famous); this is avoided in formal contexts:
(O) João foi até a cidade. ― João went to the city.

(O) Einstein foi um cientista famoso. ― Einstein was a famous scientist.
it is sometimes used instead of a possessive pronoun when the possessor is obvious from the context; this is especially prevalent when referring to parts of the body or one’s own relatives:
O pai está viajando. ― (My) dad is travelling.

Você falou com a tia? ― Did you talk with my/our aunt?

Quando você quebrou os braços? ― When did you break your arms?
it is used in a construct that is uncommon in English but common in Portuguese whereby a singular is used as a representative or prototype of all instances of the thing:
O carvalho é uma árvore grande. ― The oak is a big tree.

A picape é responsável pela poluição. ― Pick-up trucks are responsible for the pollution.
it is much more commonly used with placenames; most names of countries, states, provinces and continents take the definite article, but only a minority of cities:
Eu moro no Luxemburgo. ― I live in Luxembourg.

O Rio de Janeiro fica no Brasil. ― Rio de Janeiro is in Brazil.

Quotations

For quotations using 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)

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: Posso vê-lo? ― May I see him/it?

After conheces: Conhece-lo?. ― Do you know him/it?

After fiz: Fi-lo ficar contente. ― I made him/it become happy.

After nos: Deu-no-lo relutantemente. ― He gave him/it to us reluctantly.

After eis: Ei-lo! ― Behold him/it!
Becomes -no after a nasal sound:
Detêm-no como prisioneiro. ― They detain him/it as a prisoner.

Põe-no aqui. ― Put him/it here.
In the colloquial speech of most of Brazil, it is abandoned in favor of the nominative form ele.
Eu o vi. → Eu vi ele. ― I saw him/it.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:o.

Rapa Nui

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /o/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *o.

Particle

possessive particle marking an inalienable possession; of

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.

Romani

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /o/

Etymology 1

Letter

o (lower case, upper case O)

(International Standard) The nineteenth letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.
(Pan-Vlax) The twentieth letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

Article

o m sg (feminine singular i, plural e)

the
o rrom ― the Romani man

o Parìzo ― Paris

Usage notes

The definite article is used with proper nouns (given names and place names) as well.

Declension

References

Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “o”, in ニューエクスプレス　ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, →ISBN, pages 21, 141

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /o/

Etymology 1

Letter

o (lower case, upper case O)

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

Usage notes

See O.

Etymology 2

From Latin ūna, feminine of ūnus, via an earlier form *uă, with irregular dropping of the -n- due to high frequency of usage; however, compare the Aromanian equivalent unã, which preserved it.

Article

feminine singular nominative/accusative of un: a/an (indefinite article)
O femeie frumoasă ― A beautiful woman

Related terms

Etymology 3

Interjection

Etymology 4

From an earlier (possibly Proto-Romanian) root *eaua, from Latin illam, accusative feminine singular of ille.

Pronoun

o f (unstressed accusative form of ea)

(direct object) her
O cunoști? ― Do you know her?

O cunoști pe Iulia? ― Do you know Iulia?

Am văzut-o ieri la școală. ― I saw her yesterday at school.

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

Etymology 6

From avea.

Verb

o (modal auxiliary, ? form of avea, used with ? to form ? tenses)

(informal) Used to form a variant of the future tense together with the verb in the subjunctive mood.
Synonym: vrea (as an auxiliary verb)

O să vedem. ― We will see.

El o să facă fasole. ― He will make beans.

Usage notes

In the third person plural, or is sometimes used instead of o.

Samoan

Preposition

Sardinian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /o/

Etymology 1

From Italian o (“or”), from Latin aut (“or”), from Proto-Italic *auti, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewti (“on the other hand”), derived from *h₂ew (“away from, off”). Doublet of a.

Conjunction

Etymology 2

From Latin o (vocative particle).

Interjection

(Logudorese, Campidanese) a vocative particle; o, hey
O Frantziscu! ― Hey, Francis!

Determiner

(Logudorese, Campidanese) used before epithets, describing the person being addressed, for emphasis; you
Morta ti ses, o tessidora bella ― You died, you beautiful weaver

References

Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “o¹”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg
Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “o²”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English of, from Old English af, æf (“from, off, away”), from Proto-Germanic *ab (“away (from)”). Compare English of.

Preposition

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

Letter

o (lower case, upper case O)

The thirteenth letter of the Scottish Gaelic alphabet, written in the Latin script. It is preceded by n and followed by p. Its traditional name is onn or oir (“gorse”).

Etymology 2

From Middle Irish ó, from Old Irish ó. Cognates include Irish ó.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔ/

Preposition

o (+ dative, triggers lenition, combined with the singular definite article on)

from
Synonyms: à, bho
since
Synonym: bho

Inflection

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

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

Letter

o (Cyrillic spelling о)

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

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /o/

Preposition

o (Cyrillic spelling о)

on, against [+accusative]
ob(j)esiti nešto o kuku ― to hang something on a hook

udariti glavom o zid ― to hit one's head against the wall

ogr(ij)ešiti se o zakon ― to violate a law (literally, “to make transgression against the law”)
about, concerning, of, on [+locative]
brinuti se o nekome ― to take care of somebody

v(ij)est o katastrofi ― news about the catastrophe

R(ij)eč je o…, radi se o… ― It's about…, this refers to…

Napisao sam esej o ranom srednjem vijeku. ― I wrote an essay on the Early Middle Ages.

Synonyms

(Croatia) ob

Sicilian

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔ/ (Standard)

Noun

o f

The name of the Latin-script letter O.

Etymology 2

From Latin aut.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔ/ (Standard)

Conjunction

Derived terms

o puru

Etymology 3

Eye dialectal form of ô (“(masculine singular) at/to the”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ɔː]

Preposition

(eye dialect) Alternative form of ô

Etymology 4

Eye dialectal form of 'ô (“(masculine singular) of the”), from the lenition of rhoticized (and dialectal) rô, from dô, from an earlier and standard dû.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ɔː]

Preposition

(eye dialect) Alternative form of dû

Etymology 5

From the vowel reduction of vô, dialectal form of vâ, which is the contracted form of the Univerbation of va' (“to go”, second-person singular imperative) +‎ a (“to, forward”, preposition).

Alternative forms

vo, vô, ’o

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ɔː]

Verb

(eye dialect) Alternative form of vâ (second-person singular, contracted double imperative)

Usage notes

The double indicative and the double imperative are Sicilian moods built with the first conjugated element using exclusively the present tense of the verbs jiri (to go) or vèniri (to come) connected with the preposition a (to) to a second conjugated action wich follows the tense, the number and the person of the first verbal element.
In the case of jiri, which is irregularly composed also of the theme derived from Latin vādō, can be contracted with the preposition a depending on the dialect.

Etymology 6

From Latin ō, eventually conflated with/from Ancient Greek ὦ (ô).

Alternative forms

oh (for the interjection meaning "oh")

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ɔː]

Interjection

(usually oh) expresses surprise, joy, or pain: oh!; ah!
Synonyms: bih, madonna, madò, marò, Di' ca lu fici, zu, zu lu bestia
(usually oh) Typically used before a proper noun in the vocative or nominative case when addressing someone: O...

Related terms

Silesian

Etymology

The Silesian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Silesian language article on Wikipedia for more, and o for development of the glyph itself.

Letter

o (lower case, upper case O)

The nineteenth letter of the Silesian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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.

Slovak

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔ/

Preposition

about, concerning [+locative]
Synonyms: ohľadom, ohľadne
at (indicates time) [+locative]
against, over, on (indicates the point of contact with another object) [+accusative]
Synonyms: na, k, ku
by, often translated with a noun accompanied by an indefinite article or a numeral (indicates measure or degree) [+accusative]
in, later (indicates the end of a period of time) [+accusative]
Synonym: po

Slovene

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔ/

Preposition

about, concerning [+locative]

Somba-Siawari

Noun

water
liquid
river

References

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /o/ [o]
Rhymes: -o
Syllabification: 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

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Latin aut.

Alternative forms

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

Conjunction

Derived terms

Conjunction

o … o

either … or
Antonym: ni … ni

Derived terms

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Reduced form of go (“to go”).

Particle

Verbal marker for the future tense.

Usage notes

For purely factual statements, sa is more common. This marker is mostly used for promises, or when the anticipation carries an emotive charge, such as hope or fear. For example, “I’ll see you” is not a purely factual statement; it implies, “I hope to see you (again, some time in the future)”. In Sranan Tongo, this is then expressed as “mi o si yu”.

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”).
Synonyms: &, å

Usage notes

In handwriting, this abbreviation is often spelled with an underline: o.

Tagalog

Etymology 1

From Spanish o. Each pronunciation has a different source:

Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by English o.
Abakada alphabet pronunciation is influenced by the Baybayin character ᜂ (u).
Abecedario pronunciation is from Spanish o.

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: o
(letter name): IPA^(key): /ʔo/, [ʔo]
(letter name, Filipino alphabet alternative): IPA^(key): /ˈʔow/, [ˈʔoʊ̯]
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /o/, [o]
Rhymes: -o, -ow

Letter

o (lower case, upper case O, Baybayin spelling ᜂ)

The seventeenth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Filipino alphabet), called o and written in the Latin script.
The thirteenth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Abakada alphabet), called o and written in the Latin script.
(historical) The eighteenth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Abecedario), called o and written in the Latin script.

Noun

o (Baybayin spelling ᜂ)

the name of the Latin-script letter O, in the Filipino alphabet.
the name of the Latin-script letter O, in the Abakada alphabet.
(historical) the name of the Latin-script letter O, in the Abecedario.

Alternative forms

ow – Filipino alphabet letter

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish o (“or”), from Latin aut.

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: o
IPA^(key): /o/, [o]
Rhymes: -o

Conjunction

o (Baybayin spelling ᜂ)

or
Synonyms: o kaya, dili kaya, (inclusive, obsolete) kung

Etymology 3

Compare English oh and Spanish oh.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʔo/, [ʔo]
Rhymes: -o

Particle

o (Baybayin spelling ᜂ)

(informal) sentence-ending particle used to express warning or to catch someone's attention.

Interjection

o (Baybayin spelling ᜂ) (informal)

expression of surprise, wonder, amazement, or awe: oh!
used to catch someone's attention about a new topic, question, or story: so; oh!
used to refer to something given or offered to someone: here you are! here you go!
Synonym: heto

Derived terms

Tat

Etymology

Compare Persian (âb).

Noun

water

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English or.

Conjunction

Tokelauan

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [o]
Hyphenation: o

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *o. Cognates include Hawaiian o and Samoan o.

Preposition

Marks inalienable possession; of

Etymology 2

From Proto-Polynesian *o. Cognates include Hawaiian ō and Samoan o.

Interjection

Answer to being called by name; yes

References

R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[10], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 33

Tooro

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /o/

Pronoun

-o (declinable)

it, they (third-person personal pronoun)

Inflection

References

Kaji, Shigeki (2007) A Rutooro Vocabulary‎^[11], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, page 412

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish او (o), from older اول (ol). Merger of Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (ol) and [script needed] (an, “she, he, that, it”), (Old Turkic 𐰆𐰞 (ul¹) and [script needed] (an), respectively); both from Proto-Turkic *ol. Cognate with Karakhanid اُلْ (“he, she, it; that”) and Chinese 兀 (wù, “that”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /o/

Pronoun

he, she, it

Declension

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.

Turkmen

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /o/, /oː/

Pronoun

Alternative form of ol (“he, she, it”)

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

o • (姑, 𪦭)

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

Synonyms

Related terms

trượng, dượng

Classifier

(Thanh Hoá, Nghệ An, Hà Tĩnh) indicates a young adult woman

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Portuguese ó.

Noun

The name of the Latin-script letter O.

Related terms

Volapük

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /o/

Particle

vocative case particle

Welsh

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

(with grave accent to indicate otherwise unpredictable short vowel) ò
(with acute accent to indicate unusually stressed short vowel) ó
(with circumflex to indicate otherwise unpredictable or unusually stressed long vowel) ô
(with diaeresis to indicate disyllabicity) ö

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /oː/
Rhymes: -oː

Letter

o (lower case, upper case O)

The nineteenth letter of the Welsh alphabet, called o and written in the Latin script. It is preceded by n and followed by p.

Mutation

o cannot be mutated but, being a vowel, does take h-prothesis, for example with the word oren (“orange”):

Derived terms

(Digraph sequences) oe, oi, ou, ow, oy

Noun

o f (plural oau)

The name of the Latin-script letter O.

Mutation

Etymology 2

Aphetic form of efô, reinforced form of ef

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /oː/, /ɔ/
Rhymes: -oː

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 after a vowel. In formal Welsh, the equivalent pronoun is ef.

Etymology 3

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /oː/, /ɔ/
Rhymes: -oː

Preposition

o (causes soft mutation)

from
of, out of (partitive)
Connects an adjective modifying another adjective (equivalent to adverb + adjective in English)
arbennig o bwysig ― especially important

ofnadwy o garedig ― awfully kind
Connects a multi-word numeral to a plural noun

Inflection

Etymology 4

Possibly a conjunctive use of Etymology 3. Compare Old Irish ó (“when”).

Alternative forms

od (before a vowel)

Conjunction

o (causes aspirate mutation)

(literary) if
(literary) whether

Synonyms

Derived terms

Yola

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔː/
Homophone: o'

Etymology 1

From Middle English oo, an apocopic form of oon.

Alternative forms

Adjective

one
Synonym: oan

Etymology 2

From Middle English o.

Interjection

Etymology 3

Preposition

Alternative form of o' (“of”)

References

Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, pages 45, 88 & 93

Yoruba

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA^(key): /ō/
(letter name): IPA^(key): /ó/

Letter

o (lower case, upper case O)

The sixteenth letter of the Yoruba alphabet, called ó and written in the Latin script.

Noun

The name of the Latin-script letter O.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ō/

Pronoun

you (second-person singular non-honorific personal pronoun)

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ó/

Pronoun

he/she/it (third-person singular non-honorific personal pronoun)

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

(mid-tone): IPA^(key): /ō/
(high-tone): IPA^(key): /ó/

Pronoun

him, her, it (third-person singular object pronoun following a monosyllabic verb with a high-tone /o/)

Pronoun

him, her, it (third-person singular object pronoun following a monosyllabic verb with a low- or mid-tone /o/)

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ō/

Interjection

Used at the end of sentences to emphasize a statement.
ẹ ṣeun o ― thank you!

Alternative forms

oo, ooo etc. (depending on the amount of emphasis)

Etymology 6

Clipping of kò.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ò/

Particle

not (placed before a verb to negate it, frequently used after personal pronouns)

Etymology 7

Clipping of wò

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ò/

Verb

(Ekiti) Alternative form of wò (“to look at”)
mò í ò ẹ ― I am looking at you!!

Zaghawa

Noun

a living person

References

Beria-English English-Beria Dictionary [provisional] ADESK, Iriba, Kobe Department, Chad

Zazaki

Pronoun

o (demonstrative)

that

Zhuang

Pronunciation

(Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ʔo˨˦/
Tone numbers: o¹
Hyphenation: o

Etymology 1

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Interjection

o (1957–1982 spelling o)

Used to express compliance to a request; okay; sure
Used to express realization or understanding; oh

Etymology 2

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Adjective

o (Sawndip forms 嗬 or 荷 or ⿰目荷, 1957–1982 spelling o)

(dialectal, including Wuming) blue
Synonym: lamz

Zou

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /o˧/

Particle

Vocative particle; O

References

Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 59

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

Particle

Translations

Interjection

Noun

Adjective

Etymology 3

Preposition

Etymology 4

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Particle

Usage notes

Further reading

Aragonese

Etymology

Article

Usage notes

Asturian

Etymology

Conjunction

Azerbaijani

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Letter

See also

Etymology 2

Pronoun

Declension

Derived terms

Determiner

Basque

Pronunciation

Letter

See also

Noun

See also

Borôro

Pronunciation

Noun

Breton

Determiner

Catalan

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Conjunction

Derived terms

Corsican

Etymology

Conjunction

References

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Pronoun

Czech

Etymology