WHO

See also: W. H. O., W.H.O., and who

English

Alternative forms

• W.H.O., W. H. O.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʌbəljuː ˈeɪt͡ʃ ˈəʊ/

Proper noun

(the) WHO

1. Initialism of World Health Organization.

Descendants

• → Hungarian: WHO
• → Japanese: WHO (WHO)
• → Swedish: WHO

Translations

World Health Organization

• Arabic: مُنَظَّمَةُ الصِّحَةِ الْعَالَمِيَّة f (munaẓẓamatu ṣ-ṣiḥati l-ʕālamiyya)
• Catalan: OMS f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 世衛組織／世卫组织 (sai³ wai⁶ zou² zik¹), 世衛／世卫 (sai³ wai⁶)

  Mandarin: WHO (zh), 世衛組織／世卫组织 (zh) (Shìwèi Zǔzhī), 世衛／世卫 (zh) (Shìwèi)

• Finnish: WHO (fi)
• French: OMS (fr)
• Galician: OMS (gl) f
• Greek: ΠΟΥ (el) m (POY)
• Hungarian: WHO (hu)
• Italian: OMS (it)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Rêxistina Tenduristiya Cîhanê f, RTC f

• Macedonian: СЗО (SZO)
• Mongolian: ДЭМБ (DEMB), БДЭХБ (BDEXB), ДЭХБ (DEXB)
• Portuguese: OMS (pt) f
• Russian: ВОЗ (ru) f (VOZ)
• Spanish: OMS (es)
• Swedish: WHO (sv)
• Turkish: DSÖ (tr)
• Vietnamese: TCYTTG (vi)

See also

• WHA

 

Further reading

• World Health Organization on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• WHO on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• How, how

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

WHO

1. Abbreviation of Wereldgezondheidsorganisatie ≡ World Health Organization

Hungarian

Etymology

From English WHO, initialism of World Health Organization.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈveːɦaːoː] (phonetic respelling: véháó)
• Hyphenation: WHO
• Rhymes: -oː

Proper noun

WHO

1. WHO (World Health Organization)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	WHO	—
accusative	WHO-t	—
dative	WHO-nak	—
instrumental	WHO-val	—
causal-final	WHO-ért	—
translative	WHO-vá	—
terminative	WHO-ig	—
essive-formal	WHO-ként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	WHO-ban	—
superessive	WHO-n	—
adessive	WHO-nál	—
illative	WHO-ba	—
sublative	WHO-ra	—
allative	WHO-hoz	—
elative	WHO-ból	—
delative	WHO-ról	—
ablative	WHO-tól	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	WHO-é	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	WHO-éi	—

Possessive forms of WHO
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	WHO-m	—
2nd person sing.	WHO-d	—
3rd person sing.	WHO-ja	—
1st person plural	WHO-nk	—
2nd person plural	WHO-tok	—
3rd person plural	WHO-juk	—

Derived terms

• WHO-s

Japanese

Etymology

From English WHO.

Proper noun

WHO(ダブリューエッチオー) • (Daburyū-Etchi-Ō) 

1. Synonym of 世界保健機関 (Sekai Hoken Kikan, “World Health Organization”); the WHO

Swedish

Etymology

From English WHO.

Proper noun

WHO ? (genitive WHO:s)

1. Synonym of Världshälsoorganisationen; the WHO