q

See also: Q, -q, գ, զ, q̃, q̇, q., Q., and Variations of "q"

q - Translingual

Letter

q (upper case Q)

The seventeenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Symbol

Abbreviation of quecto-.
(IPA) voiceless uvular plosive.
- (superscript) See details at 𐞥.
(physics) electrical charge
(physics) heat
(fluid dynamics) dynamic pressure

Synonyms

(electrical charge): Q
(heat): Q

Gallery

Letter styles
Uppercase and lowercase versions of , in normal and italic type
Uppercase and lowercase Q in Fraktur

q - English

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA: /kjuː/
(phoneme): IPA: /k/
Homophones: cue, queue

Letter

q (lower case, upper case Q, plural qs or q's)

The seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, called cue and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

The name of this letter is spelled cue or formerly cu.

Number

q (lower case, upper case Q)

The ordinal number seventeenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called cue and written in the Latin script.

Noun

(sports) conditional qualification
question

Related terms

Q
DNQ, DNS, DNF, DSQ, DQ

Determiner

(medicine) Each, every (with a time interval).
- 175 mg/m² q 3 wks
  ("every three weeks").

Related terms

qh, QD

q - Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA: /ɡ/

Letter

q lower case (upper case Q)

The seventeenth letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

q - Basque

Pronunciation

IPA: /ku/, [ku]

Letter

q (lower case, upper case Q)

The eighteenth letter of the Basque alphabet, called ku and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

Used chiefly in recent loanwords and foreign proper nouns.

q - Bilen

Pronunciation

IPA: /kʼ/

Letter

q (uppercase Q)

A letter of the Bilen Latin alphabet.

q - Dutch

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA: /ky/

Letter

q (lower case, upper case Q)

The seventeenth letter of the Dutch alphabet, written in the Latin script.

q - Estonian

Pronunciation

IPA: /ˈkuː/
Homophone: kuu

Letter

q (lower case, upper case Q)

The seventeenth letter of the Estonian alphabet, called kuu and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

Used only in foreign words.

q - Finnish

Letter

q (lower case, upper case Q)

The seventeenth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called kuu and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

Used only in loanwords. In more established loanwords qu is replaced with kv.

q - French

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA: /ky/
Homophones: cul, culs, cu, cus, ku, kus, qu, qus

Letter

q (lower case, upper case Q)

The seventeenth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Noun

q m (plural q)

Abbreviation of quintal.

q - Gothic

Romanization

Romanization of 𐌵

q - Greenlandic

Pronunciation

IPA: /q/

Letter

The thirteenth letter of the Greenlandic alphabet, written in the Latin script.

q - Hungarian

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA: [ˈk]
(letter name): IPA: [ˈkuː]

Letter

q (lower case, upper case Q)

A letter of the extended Hungarian alphabet, called kú and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

It is a symbol of the (somewhat dated) unit of mázsa (100 kilos or a quintal, approx. two hundredweight).

It occurs in the following terms, along with their derivations and compounds: becquerel, (archaic spelling: boutique →) butik, cinquecento, conditio sine qua non, denique, donquijoték (plural), IQ, kvad or quad, quantum satis, quaestor, quaestura, quattrocento, quisling, quodlibet, QR-kód, squash, and tequila.

Also in some foreign proper names chiefly from Latin, French, and Spanish, including Aquincum, Aquinói Szent Tamás (Thomas Aquinas), Don Quijote, Dunkerque, García Márquez, Jacques Offenbach, Martinique, Montesquieu, Quartier Latin, Québec, Quintilianus, Quintus Pontius Pilatus, Quito, Torquato Tasso, and Velázquez.

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	q	q-k
accusative	q-t	q-kat
dative	q-nak	q-knak
instrumental	q-val	q-kkal
causal-final	q-ért	q-kért
translative	q-vá	q-kká
terminative	q-ig	q-kig
essive-formal	q-ként	q-kként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	q-ban	q-kban
superessive	q-n	q-kon
adessive	q-nál	q-knál
illative	q-ba	q-kba
sublative	q-ra	q-kra
allative	q-hoz	q-khoz
elative	q-ból	q-kból
delative	q-ról	q-król
ablative	q-tól	q-któl
non-attributive possessive - singular	q-é	q-ké
non-attributive possessive - plural	q-éi	q-kéi

Possessive forms of q
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	q-m	q-im
2nd person sing.	q-d	q-id
3rd person sing.	q-ja	q-i
1st person plural	q-nk	q-ink
2nd person plural	q-tok	q-itok
3rd person plural	q-juk	q-ik

q - Ido

Pronunciation

(context pronunciation, always found before the letter U) IPA: /kw/
(letter name) IPA: /kwe/

Letter

q (upper case Q)

The seventeenth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

q - Indonesian

Pronunciation

(context pronunciation) IPA: /k/
(letter name) IPA: /ki/

Letter

q (upper case Q)

The seventeenth letter of the Indonesian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Alternative forms

ak
aq (alay)

Pronoun

(text messaging, slang) Abbreviation of aku.

q - Italian

Pronunciation

(phonemic realization) IPA: /kw/

Letter

q f or m (invariable, lower case, upper case Q)

The fifteenth letter of the Italian alphabet, called cu and written in the Latin script.

q - Kâte

Letter

The voiceless stop /k͡p/, vs. curly-tail ⟨ɋ⟩, which is voiced /ɡ͡b/.

q - Latin

Letter

A letter of the Latin alphabet.

q - Lushootseed

Pronunciation

IPA: /q/

Letter

The thirty-first letter of the Lushootseed alphabet.

q - Malay

Letter

q (lower case, upper case Q)

The seventeenth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

q - Maltese

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA: /ʔ/
- IPA: [ʔ] (standard)
- IPA: [q] (dialectal, now especially among the elderly)

Letter

q (upper case Q)

The twenty-first letter of the Maltese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

q - Mam

Pronunciation

IPA: /qʰ/

Letter

q (uppercase Q)

A letter of the Mam alphabet.

q - Norwegian

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA: /kʉː/
(phoneme): IPA: /k/
Homophone: ku

Letter

The seventeenth letter of the Norwegian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

Rare in written Norwegian, only used in a limited number of loanwords.

q - Portuguese

Letter

q (lower case, upper case Q)

The seventeenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronoun

(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of que (“that”).
(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of quê (“what”).

q - Romani

Pronunciation

IPA: (after n) /ɡ/, (after any other letter) /k/

Letter

q (lower case, upper case Q)

(International Standard) Used to represent the dative and genitive cases.

q - Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA: /k/

Letter

q (lower case, upper case Q)

The twentieth letter of the Romanian alphabet, called chiu and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

Used chiefly in loanwords.
The digraph qu is pronounced /kw/, /kv/, or /kʲ/.

q - Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA: (phoneme) /k/

Letter

q (lower case, upper case Q)

The eighteenth letter of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

IPA: /ke/ [ke]

Pronoun

(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of que (“that”).
- Hay un policía en la ruta q mas uso. ― There's a cop on the route that I use the most.
(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of qué (“what”).
- q paso? ― what happened?

q - Zulu

Letter

q (lower case, upper case Q)

The seventeenth letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.