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W

See also: Variations of "w"

W - Translingual

Alternative forms

Letter

W (lower case w)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Symbol

W

  1. (chemistry) Symbol for tungsten.
  2. (metrology) Symbol for watt.
  3. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for tryptophan
  4. (physics) work
  5. (Voice Quality Symbols) whisper
  • Letter styles
  • Uppercase and lowercase versions of W, in normal and italic type
  • Uppercase and lowercase W in Fraktur

W - English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA: /ˈdʌb(əl)juː/
  • (US) IPA: /ˈdʌbə(l)ju/, sometimes reduced to /ˈdʌbjə/.
  • (US, abbreviation, rare, nonstandard) IPA: /ˈdʌb/

Letter

W (upper case, lower case w, plural Ws or W's)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the English alphabet, called double U and written in the Latin script.

Proper noun

W

  1. Wednesday
  2. (informal) George W. Bush, US politician

Synonyms

  • (Wednesday): Wed
  • (George W. Bush): Dubya

Translations

  • Swedish: O (sv)

Noun

W (plural Ws)

  1. (sports, countable) wins
  2. (cricket) wicket
  3. (uncountable) west
  4. (law enforcement) warrant
  5. (Internet slang, countable) a win
  6. Initialism of women. (sign on toilet door)
    • Coordinate term: M

Derived terms

  • (sports): L, T, OTL
  • (compass): E, N, S
  • (internet slang): L

Translations

  • Swedish: V (sv)
  • Swedish: V (sv)

Adjective

W (comparative more W, superlative most W)

  1. (slang) Excellent, top-notch.
    • Antonym: L
    • You, sir, are a W mans.

W - Afar

Letter

W

  1. The twentieth letter in the Afar alphabet.

W - Afrikaans

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA: /vɪə/

Letter

W (upper case, lower case w)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Afrikaans alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Noun

W (plural W's, diminutive W'tjie)

  1. W

W - Basque

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ube bikoi̯t͡s̻/, [u.β̞e̞ β̞i.ko̞i̯t͡s̻]

Letter

W (upper case, lower case w)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Basque alphabet, called uve bikoitz and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

  • Used chiefly in recent loanwords and foreign proper nouns.

W - Chinese

Pronunciation

  • Mandarin
    • (Pinyin): wàn (wan4)
    • (Zhuyin): ㄨㄢˋ

Numeral

W

  1. (Internet slang) Alternative form of 萬／万 (wàn).

Pronunciation 1

  • Mandarin
    • (Pinyin): dábuliu
    • (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˊ ˙ㄅㄨ ˙ㄌㄧㄡ
  • Cantonese (Jyutping): dap1 bu4 liu4, dap1 bou4 ju4, dap1
  • Min Nan
    • (Hokkien, POJ): tâ bu-liù
    • (Teochew, Peng'im): dab8 liu7
  • Wu (Wiktionary): daq (T5) + peq (T4) + li (T3) + eq (T4)

Letter

W

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Latin alphabet.

Pronunciation 2

  • Mandarin

Letter

W

  1. The twenty-third letter used in Pinyin.

Usage notes

  • 《汉语拼音方案》 defines a standard pronunciation for each letter. However, these pronunciations are rarely used in education; another pronunciation is commonly used instead.
  • The pronunciation above are only used while referring to letters in Pinyin. They are not used in other context (such as English).

W - Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /dɔbəlveː/, [ˈd̥ʌb̥əlˌveːˀ]

Letter

W (lowercase w)

  1. the twenty-third letter of the Danish alphabet

W - Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA: /ʋeː/

Letter

W (capital, lowercase w)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Dutch alphabet.

Adverb

W

  1. Abbreviation of west; west

W - Esperanto

Noun

W

  1. Abbreviation of uesto (“west”).

W - Finnish

Letter

W (upper case, lower case w)

  1. A letter of the Finnish alphabet, called kaksoisvee and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

  • In the Finnish alphabet, W is a variant of V.
  • Used only in loanwords and proper names with old spelling (compare Wirtanen).

W - German

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /veː/
  • Homophone: weh

Letter

W (upper case, lower case w)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the German alphabet.

Noun

W

  1. Abbreviation of West; west

W - Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA: [ˈv]
  • (letter name): IPA: [ˈduplɒveː]

Letter

W (upper case, lower case w)

  1. A letter of the extended Hungarian alphabet, called dupla vé and written in the Latin script.

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
Possessive forms of W

W - Ido

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /w/

Letter

W (lower case w)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

W - Italian

Pronunciation

  • (phonemic realization) IPA: /v/, /w/ (varies depending on the source language of the loanword)

Letter

W f or m (invariable, upper case, lower case w)

  1. the twenty-third letter of the Latin alphabet, called doppia vu or vu doppia in Italian

Usage notes

  • The letter W is not considered part of the Italian alphabet. It is found mainly in loanwords.

Symbol

W

  1. viva, evviva (“up with”)
    • Antonym: M (“down with”)

W - Japanese

Noun

W(ダブル) • (daburu) 

  1. Alternative spelling of ダブル (“double”)

W - Malay

Pronunciation

  • (Name of letter) IPA: [dabliu], [dabəliu], [dabəlju], [dablju]
  • (Phoneme) IPA: [w]

Letter

W

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

W - Nupe

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA: /w/

Letter

W (upper case, lower case w)

  1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Nupe alphabet, written in the Latin script.

W - Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /vu/

Letter

W (upper case, lower case w)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Polish alphabet, called wu and written in the Latin script.

W - Portuguese

Letter

W (upper case, lower case w)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

W - Romani

Letter

W (upper case, lower case w)

  1. A letter used to represent the voiced labial-velar approximant (/w/) in the International Standard orthography.

W - Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /v/, /w/, /u/

Letter

W (upper case, lower case w)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Romanian alphabet, called dublu ve or dublu vî and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

Used chiefly in recent loanwords and foreign proper nouns.

W - Saanich

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /w/

Letter

W

  1. The thirty-third letter of the Saanich alphabet, written in the Latin script.

W - Somali

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA: /w/, /u̯/, /ʉ̯/
  • (letter name): IPA: /wæʉ̯/

Letter

W upper case (lower case w)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Somali alphabet, called waw and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

  1. The twentieth letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by N and followed by H.

W - Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: (phoneme) /w/, /ɡw/, /β/
  • IPA: (letter name) /ˌube ˈdoble/ [ˌu.β̞e ˈð̞o.β̞le]

Letter

W (upper case, lower case w)

  1. the 24th letter of the Spanish alphabet

W - Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /uː/

Letter

W (upper case, lower case w)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Welsh alphabet, called w and written in the Latin script. It is preceded by U and followed by Y.

Mutation

  • W cannot be mutated but when representing a vowel, does take h-prothesis, for example with the word wy (“egg”):
Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalh-prothesis
wy unchanged unchanged hwy
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
  • However, when it represents the semivowel /w/, W cannot be mutated.
Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalh-prothesis
wal unchanged unchanged unchanged△
△Irregular.

W - Yoruba

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA: /w/
  • (letter name): IPA: /wí/

Letter

W (upper case, lower case w)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Yoruba alphabet, called wí and written in the Latin script.

W - Zulu

Letter

W (upper case, lower case w)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.
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