او

From Proto-Iranian *Hā́fš.

• IPA^(key): /ov/

او (ov)

1. (Vidari) water

• اكا‎ (oka) (Alviri)

• Yarshater, The Dialects of Alvīr and Vīdar

او (o)

1. Arabic spelling of o (“he, she, it”)

او (aw)

1. water

• The Phonology of the Bakhtiari, Badakhshani, and Madaglashti Dialects of Modern Persian (1922)

او (ō)

1. he

• اول‎ (ul)

او (u)

1. he, she, it

From Sanskrit उदक (udaka), from Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ (“water”). Cognate with Indus Kohistani وی (vī́).

اُو (ū)

1. water

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /waːwuk/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /oː/

او • (ō)

1. a vowel of Kashmiri.

The vowel او in its initial form is او , middle form و and final form و

• Previous vowel: اۆ‎ (o)
• Next vowel : اۄ‎ (ọ)

او (ōū, ō)

1. (Soi) water

• Rastorgujeva, V. S.; Edelʹman, D. I. (2000) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura

اوْ (ô)

1. Arabic spelling of ô (“he, she, it”)

او (ow)

1. water

• Rastorgujeva, V. S.; Edelʹman, D. I. (2000) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura

او (ow, o)

1. water

From Proto-Turkic *eb (“dwelling place, house”).

أو • (ev)

1. house

• خانه‎ (hane)

• Gagauz: ev
• Turkish: ev
• → Crimean Tatar: ev

The older اول‎ (ol) reduced to this form in ordinary speech.

او • (o)

1. (late Ottoman) Alternative form of اول‎ (ol, “he, she, it”)

• IPA^(key): /aw/

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او • (aw)

1. and

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (OLE), 𐭥𐭫𐭤‎ (ʿlh), 𐫀𐫇𐫏‎ (ʾwy /ōy/, “he; she; that”).

• اورا‎ (urâ, ôrâ) (as grammatical object)
• اوی‎ (uy) (archaic)

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او • (u)

1. she, he, they (meaning the third-person singular, of unknown or irrelevant gender, but animate)

• Only used for animate referents, that is, “he” and “she”, not “it”.
• When the pronoun is acting as a grammatical object, it is combined with the direct-object particle را‎ (râ) as او را‎ (u râ, ô râ) or contracted into a single word as اورا‎ (urâ, ôrâ)
• (Iran, colloquial) contracted to اونو (uno) when used with the direct-object particle را‎ (râ).

• وی‎ (vay, vey)

• همو‎ (hamu)

(colloquial) form of آب‎ (âb)

• (Dari, some dialects) IPA^(key): /aw/
• (Iran, some dialects) IPA^(key): /ow/

او or او • (aw or ow)

1. (dialectal, various locations) water
2. (dialectal, various locations) liquid
3. (dialectal, various locations) juice

• IPA^(key): /oː/

او (ō) (Devanagari ओ‎)

1. (distal) third-person subjective personal pronoun: he, she, it, they
2. distal demonstrative pronoun: that, those

• آو‎ (âv)

From Proto-Iranian *Hā́fš.

او (ov)

1. water

From Classical Persian او‎ (ō).

او • (o) (Hindi spelling ओ)

1. he, she
2. third-person singular subjective personal pronoun of unspecified gender: they
3. that
4. it

• وہ‎ (vo)

Borrowed from Sanskrit इव (iva).

اِو • (iv) (Hindi spelling इव)

1. thus
2. as
3. almost

اِو • (iv) (Hindi spelling इव‎)

1. as
2. like

او (ō)

1. oh
2. hey