ov

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ov"

English

Alternative forms

See of

Etymology

Respelling of of popularized by Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth.

Preposition

ov

(very rare, nonstandard) Alternative spelling of of.
- 2014, Behemoth, Ora Pro Nobis Lucifer:
  Scholar ov the unlight / Great volcano ov excrement

Usage notes

Usually used for stylistic effect, such as in the band name Ov Sulfur.

Anagrams

VO, Vo, Vò

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic		ов
Arabic		اۇو

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *āb (“hunt, chase”). Cognate with Turkish av.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ov]
Audio: (file)

Noun

ov (definite accusative ovu, plural ovlar)

hunt
ova çıxmaq ― to go hunting (literally, “to go out for a hunt”)
game, prey, catch (that which is obtained in hunt)

Declension

Declension of ov
	singular	plural
nominative	ov	ovlar
definite accusative	ovu	ovları
dative	ova	ovlara
locative	ovda	ovlarda
ablative	ovdan	ovlardan
definite genitive	ovun	ovların

Possessive forms of ov
	nominative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	ovum	ovlarım
sənin (“your”)	ovun	ovların
onun (“his/her/its”)	ovu	ovları
bizim (“our”)	ovumuz	ovlarımız
sizin (“your”)	ovunuz	ovlarınız
onların (“their”)	ovu or ovları	ovları

	accusative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	ovumu	ovlarımı
sənin (“your”)	ovunu	ovlarını
onun (“his/her/its”)	ovunu	ovlarını
bizim (“our”)	ovumuzu	ovlarımızı
sizin (“your”)	ovunuzu	ovlarınızı
onların (“their”)	ovunu or ovlarını	ovlarını

	dative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	ovuma	ovlarıma
sənin (“your”)	ovuna	ovlarına
onun (“his/her/its”)	ovuna	ovlarına
bizim (“our”)	ovumuza	ovlarımıza
sizin (“your”)	ovunuza	ovlarınıza
onların (“their”)	ovuna or ovlarına	ovlarına

	locative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	ovumda	ovlarımda
sənin (“your”)	ovunda	ovlarında
onun (“his/her/its”)	ovunda	ovlarında
bizim (“our”)	ovumuzda	ovlarımızda
sizin (“your”)	ovunuzda	ovlarınızda
onların (“their”)	ovunda or ovlarında	ovlarında

	ablative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	ovumdan	ovlarımdan
sənin (“your”)	ovundan	ovlarından
onun (“his/her/its”)	ovundan	ovlarından
bizim (“our”)	ovumuzdan	ovlarımızdan
sizin (“your”)	ovunuzdan	ovlarınızdan
onların (“their”)	ovundan or ovlarından	ovlarından

	genitive
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	ovumun	ovlarımın
sənin (“your”)	ovunun	ovlarının
onun (“his/her/its”)	ovunun	ovlarının
bizim (“our”)	ovumuzun	ovlarımızın
sizin (“your”)	ovunuzun	ovlarınızın
onların (“their”)	ovunun or ovlarının	ovlarının

Synonyms

şikar (South Azerbaijani, dated)

Derived terms

ovçu (“hunter”)

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

off (alternative spelling)
ob (western Moselle Franconian; otherwise as a variant, but only in the sense of “if”)

Etymology

From Old High German of, *ova, northern variant of oba.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔf/
Homophone: off

Conjunction

ov

(most dialects) if; whether
Ich weeß net, ov dat stemmp.
I don’t know if that’s true.
- 2014, “Alle Jläser huh”‎^[1]performed by Kasalla:
  Janz ejal, ov du jet ze fiere häs,
  Alles oder nix ze verliere häs,
  Alle Jläser zo de Stääne,
  Denn die Engel, die uns fähle,
  Stusse jään met uns aan.
  No matter if you have something to celebrate,
  Everything or nothing to lose,
  All our glasses up to the stars,
  Because the angels that we miss
  Like to clink with us.
(Ripuarian) or
Dat mösse foffzig ov sechsig Mann jewäs senn.
They must’ve been fifty or sixty people.

Donnersdaach ov Friedaach moss ich nohm Finanzamp.
I need to go to the tax office Thursday or Friday.

Usage notes

Though formerly generally applicable, the Ripuarian ov (“or”) is now used only in vague statements or estimates. The word odder is used in order to express an actual alternative.

Dutch

Alternative forms

OV

Etymology

Initialism of openbaar vervoer.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /oːˈveː/
Audio: (file)

Noun

ov n (uncountable, no diminutive)

public transport
Bent u met de auto of met het ov?
Did you come by car or by public transport?

Derived terms

Noun

ov c (plural ov's, diminutive ov'tje n)

clipping of ov-chipkaart

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse of, from Proto-Germanic *uber, whence Icelandic of. Related to English over.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [oː]
Homophones: og (‘and’)

Adverb

ov

too
- ov mikið
  too much

Judeo-Tat

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ov/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Classical Persian (āb).

Noun

ov

water
juice
sweat
Synonym: ərəq

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew אָב (ʔɔḇ).

Noun

ov

(Judaism) Av (the eleventh month of the civil year and the fifth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Tammuz and before Elul)

Livonian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈoˀv/, [ˈoˀu̯vː]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *auvo.

Noun

o’v

honor
glory

Declension

Declension of **o’v** (122)
	singular (ikšlu’g)	plural (pǟgiņlu’g)
nominative (nominatīv)	o’v	o’vd
genitive (genitīv)	o’v	o’vd
partitive (partitīv)	o’vvõ	o’vḑi
dative (datīv)	o’vvõn	o’vdõn
instrumental (instrumentāl)	o’vvõks	o’vdõks
illative (illatīv)	o’vvõ	o’vži
inessive (inesīv)	o’vsõ	o’vši
elative (elatīv)	o’vstõ	o’všti

Alternative forms

ouv

Etymology 2

From Proto-Finnic *havu.

Noun

o’v

conifer needle

Declension

Declension of **o’v** (122)
	singular (ikšlu’g)	plural (pǟgiņlu’g)
nominative (nominatīv)	o’v	o’vd
genitive (genitīv)	o’v	o’vd
partitive (partitīv)	o’vvõ	o’vḑi
dative (datīv)	o’vvõn	o’vdõn
instrumental (instrumentāl)	o’vvõks	o’vdõks
illative (illatīv)	o’vvõ	o’vži
inessive (inesīv)	o’vsõ	o’vši
elative (elatīv)	o’vstõ	o’všti

References

Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “o’v”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎^[2] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra

Maia

Adverb

ov

here

Romani

Alternative forms

jov

Pronoun

ov

he^[1]^[2]^[3]

References

^ Boretzky, Norbert; Igla, Birgit (1994), “ov”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 203a
^ Marcel Courthiade (2009), “ov B-ćham: les”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 261b
^ Yaron Matras and Evangelina Adamou (2020), “Romani and Contact Linguistics”, in Yaron Matras, Anton Tenser, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics, →DOI, →ISBN, page 341

Romansh

Alternative forms

öv (Puter, Vallader)
iev (Sursilvan)

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin (*)ŏvum, from Classical Latin ōvum.

Noun

ov m (plural ovs)

(Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, biology, zoology, foods) egg

Talysh

Etymology

Cognate with Persian (āb).

Noun

ov

water

Yola

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

Alternative forms

of, af, av

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔv/, /av/

Preposition

ov

of
Synonym: o'

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, page 60

[1] Boretzky, Norbert; Igla, Birgit (1994), “ov”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 203a

[2] Marcel Courthiade (2009), “ov B-ćham: les”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 261b

[3] Yaron Matras and Evangelina Adamou (2020), “Romani and Contact Linguistics”, in Yaron Matras, Anton Tenser, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics, →DOI, →ISBN, page 341

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number	person		nominative	accusative	dative	locative	ablative	instrumental	possessive
singular	first		me	man	manqe	manθe	manθar	mança	miro, -i, -e
	second		tu	tut	tuqe	tuθe	tuθar	tuça	tiro, -i, -e
	reflexive third		—	pes	pesqe	pesθe	pesθar	peça	pesqero, -i, -e
	third	m	ov	les	lesqe	lesθe	lesθar	leça	lesqero, -i, -e
	third	f	oj	la	laqe	laθe	laθar	laça	laqero, -i, -e
plural	first		amen		amenqe	amenθe	amenθar	amença	amaro, -i, -e
	second		tumen		tumenqe	tumenθe	tumenθar	tumença	tumaro, -i, -e
	reflexive third		—	pen	penqe	penθe	penθar	pença	penqero, -i, -e
	third		on	len	lenqe	lenθe	lenθar	lença	lenqero, -i, -e

number	person		nominative	accusative (long and short forms)	dative	locative	ablative	instrumental	possessive
singular	first		me	man, ma	mánge	mánde	mándar	mánsa	múrro, -i, -e
	second		tu	tut, tu	túke	túte	tútar	túsa	tíro, -i, -e
	reflexive third		—	pês, pe	pêske	pêste	pêstar	pêsa	pêsko, -i, -e
	third	m	wo	lês, le	lêske	lêste	lêstar	lêsa	lêsko, -i, -e
	third	f	woi	la, la	láke	láte	látar	lása	láko, -i, -e
plural	first		ame	amên, ame	amênge	amênde	amêndar	amênsa	amáro, -i, -e
	second		tume	tumên, tume	tumênge	tumênde	tumêndar	tumênsa	tumáro, -i, -e
	reflexive third		—	pên, pe	pênge	pênde	pêndar	pênsa	pêngo, -i, -e
	third		won	lên, le	lênge	lênde	lêndar	lênsa	lêngo, -i, -e

English

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Etymology

Preposition

Usage notes

Anagrams

Azerbaijani

Etymology

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Noun

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Further reading

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Conjunction

Usage notes

Dutch

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Noun

Faroese

Etymology

Pronunciation

Adverb

See also

Judeo-Tat

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Etymology 2

Noun

Livonian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Declension

Alternative forms

Etymology 2

Noun

Declension

References

Maia

Adverb

Romani

Alternative forms

Pronoun

See also

References

Romansh

Alternative forms

Etymology

Noun

Talysh

Etymology

Noun

Yola

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Preposition

References