о

See also: ѿ, О, ӧ, o., о., -о, о-, -о-, and Appendix:Variations of "o"

Translingual

Cyrillic letter О о (О о), normal above, italics below.

Handwritten forms

Etymology

From early Cyrillic letter onŭ.

Letter

о (lower case, upper case О)

1. Cyrillic small letter o

Related terms

• o (Latin alphabet)
• ο (Greek alphabet)

See also

• Wikipedia article on the Cyrillic alphabet
• Search en.wiktionary.org for articles beginning with: О, о

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Adyghe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [wa]

• audio:

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Pronoun

о • (wo)

1. you (singular)

Noun

о • (wo)

1. weather

   Ом изытет ӏае — The weather is so bad.

   Сэ сыкъэкӏощтэп, сыда пӏомэ ом изытет ӏэе дэд — I am not coming because the weather is so bad.

Synonyms

• уэ (Kabardian)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• осы
• ошъогу
• ощхы

• уае
• уашъо

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Azerbaijani

Other scripts

Cyrillic		о
Abjad		او

Etymology

Cognate with Old Turkic [Term?].

Pronoun

о (o)

1. he, she, it

Declension

Declension of Azerbaijani personal pronouns

	singular				plural
	1st person	2nd person	3rd person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
nominative	мән	сән	о		биз	сиз	онлар
accusative	мәни	сәни	ону		бизи	сизи	онлары
dative	мәнә	сәнә	она		бизә	сизә	онлара
locative	мәндә	сәндә	онда		биздә	сиздә	онларда
ablative	мәндән	сәндән	ондан		биздән	сиздән	онлардан
genitive	мәним	сәнин	онун		бизим	сизин	онларын

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Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic	و
Cyrillic	о
Latin	o

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /o/

Letter

о • (o) (lower case, upper case О)

1. The twentieth letter of the Kazakh Cyrillic alphabet

Interjection

о • (o)

1. oh (expression of surprise)

See also

• (Cyrillic-script letters) А а, Ә ә, Б б, В в, Г г, Ғ ғ, Д д, Е е, Ё ё, Ж ж, З з, И и, Й й, К к, Қ қ, Л л, М м, Н н, Ң ң, О о, Ө ө, П п, Р р, С с, Т т, У у, Ұ ұ, Ү ү, Ф ф, Х х, Һ һ, Ц ц, Ч ч, Ш ш, Щ щ, Ъ ъ, Ы ы, І і, Ь ь, Э э, Ю ю, Я я

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Macedonian

Interjection

о • (o)

1. wow (used to express approving amazement)

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Old Church Slavonic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *o(b), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *h₃ebʰi.

Preposition

о • (o)

1. about
2. around
3. through
4. during
5. because of
6. for
7. in

Related terms

• об (ob)
• объ (obŭ)

References

• Mali staroslavensko-hrvatski rječnik, Matica hrvatska, Zagreb, 2004

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Ossetian

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /o/

Letter

о • (o) (upper case О)

1. The nineteenth letter of the Ossetian alphabet

See also

• (Cyrillic-script letters) А а, Ӕ ӕ, Б б, В в, Г г, Гъ гъ, Д д, Дж дж, Дз дз, Е е, Ё ё, Ж ж, З з, И и, Й й, К к, Къ къ, Л л, М м, Н н, О о, П п, Пъ пъ, Р р, С с, Т т, Тъ тъ, У у, Ф ф, Х х, Хъ хъ, Ц ц, Цъ цъ, Ч ч, Чъ чъ, Ш ш, Щ щ, Ъ ъ, Ы ы, Ь ь, Э э, Ю ю, Я я

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Romanian

Article

о (o)

1. Cyrillic spelling of o.

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Russian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [o]

• Audio:

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Letter

о • (o) (lower case, upper case О)

1. The sixteenth letter of the Russian Cyrillic alphabet.

See also

• Previous letter: н (n)
• Next letter: п (p)

Noun

о • (o) n inan (indeclinable)

1. The Cyrillic letter О (O), о (o).
2. The Roman letter O, o.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [o]

Interjection

о • (o)

1. oh

   О бо́же! ― O bóže! ― Oh God!

Etymology 3

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

Pronunciation

• Audio (stressed):

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• (stressed) IPA^(key): [o]
• (directly preceding the stress) IPA^(key): [ɐ]
• (unstressed, in other positions) IPA^(key): [ə]

Preposition

о • (o)

1. (+ prepositional case) about, of, on

   Я чита́л о нём ― Ja čitál o njom ― I’ve read about him.

2. (literary) (+ accusative case) against, upon

   опира́ться о сте́ну ― opirátʹsja o sténu ― to lean against the wall

Usage notes

• The о (o) form is unstressed except in the idiom бок о́‎ бок (bok ó‎ bok).
• When governing the prepositional case, the form о (o) is used before consonants, except before a few clusters where the form обо (obo) is used.
• When governing the accusative, the form о (o) is used before most consonants in the written language: the usage is variable before liquids. In the spoken language, об (ob) is used in all cases.

Alternative forms

• об (ob) (before vowels and in some other cases)
• обо (obo) (before some words such as мне or все)

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /o/

Letter

о (Latin spelling o)

1. The 18th letter of the Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic alphabet, preceded by њ and followed by п.

Alternative forms

• О (uppercase)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *o(b), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *h₃ebʰi. See о-, об-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o/

Preposition

o (Latin spelling o)

1. (+ accusative case) on, against

   об(ј)есити нешто о куку ― to hang something on a hook

   ударити главом о зид ― to hit one's head against the wall

   огр(иј)ешити се о закон ― to violate a law

2. (+ locative case) about, concerning

   бринути се о некоме ― to take care of somebody

   в(иј)ест о катастрофи ― news about the catastrophe

   Р(иј)еч је о..., ради се о... ― It's about..., this refers to...

   Написао сам есеј о раном средњем вијеку. ― I wrote an essay on the Early Middle Ages.