و

See also: ؤ, ۋ, ۈ, ۇ, ۆ, ٷ, and ٶ

و - Arabic

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA: /waːw/
  • (phoneme): IPA: /w/, /uː/, silent (in Classical Arabic)
  • (phoneme): IPA: /w/, /u(ː)/, /oː/ (in Arabic dialects and loanwords)

Letter

و / ‍و (wāw)

  1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet. It is preceded by ه (h) and followed by ي (y).

Symbol

و / ‍و (wāw)

  1. The sixth letter in traditional abjad order, which is used in place of numerals for list numbering (abjad numerals). It is preceded by ه (h) and followed by ز (z).

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /wa/ (MSA)
  • IPA: /wɪ/, /w/ (dialectal)

Conjunction

وَ (wa)

  1. and, "comma", "semi-colon"; a divider of words or clauses, particle of connection or continuation often unnecessary to render in translation
    1. yet, but; versatile conjunction determined by context
  2. while, at the same time, and also do, simultaneously, to do this and to do that concurrently
    • لَا تَأْكُلِ السَّمَكَ وَتَشْرَبَ اللَّبَنَlā taʔkuli s-samaka wa-tašraba l-labanaDo not eat fish and drink dairy; (Proverb about illnesses coming from bad combinations; originally the supposed increased risk of contracting leprosy, a myth stemming from fish scales and the white color of milk.)
    • لَا تَنْهَ عَنْ خُلُقٍ وَتَأْتِيَ مِثْلَهُlā tanha ʕan ḵuluqin wa-taʔtiya miṯlahuDo not say to stay away from a behavior, while you come with the likes of it; (Practice what you preach.)
  3. particle of rephrasing or marking a clause of adposition; and in other words, that is to say, additionally called, i.e.
  4. with, and also, additionally (with following accusative)
    1. (mathematics) +, added to
  5. particle denoting an oath (with following genitive)
    • وَٱللّٰهِwa-llāhiBy God; And I swear by God

Usage notes

  • Arabic conjunctions and prepositions that have only one letter, such as وَ (wa), are written as a prefix.
    • The connection to the following word may however exceptionally be cut off by quotation marks enclosing foreign terms, emoji and similar intrusions of meta elements in the language of the internet.
    • Sometimes editions of Arabic texts procured in Iran do not adhere to the rules, instead following the non-joining practice of Persian و (va, o, and).
  • Arabic tends to use the conjunctions وَ (wa) and أَو (ʔaw, or) between every conjunct in a list, contrasting with the English tendency to only use and and or between the final two.

Derived terms


Pronunciation

  • IPA: /wa/ (MSA)

Preposition

وَ (wa) (with a following accusative)

  1. with
    • سِرْتُ وَطُلُوعَ الْفَجْرِsirtu wa-ṭulūʕa l-fajriI got out with sunrise.
    • أَنَا وَإيّاكُمʔanā wa-ʔiyyākumI with you

Interfix

ـَوـ (-aw-)

  1. interfix used in forming nisba (relative) adjectives, particularly with short bases, inserted between the base noun and the ending ِـيّ (-iyy), e.g. لُغَوِيّ (luḡawiyy, linguistic), based on لُغَة (luḡa, language), or ثَانَوِيّ (ṯānawiyy, secondary), based on ثَانٍ (ṯānin, second).

و - Balti

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /w/, [w]

Letter

و (u)

  1. The fourty-second letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Perso-Arabic script

و - Burushaski

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /w/, /oː/

Letter

و (w)

  1. The fourty-second letter of the Burushaski alphabet, written in the Perso-Arabic script

و - Central Kurdish

Alternative forms

  • وە (we)

Conjunction

و (û)

  1. and

و - Chagatai

Conjunction

و ()

  1. and

Descendants

  • Uyghur:
    • Arabic script: ۋە (we)
    • Cyrillic script: вә (we)
  • Uzbek:
    • Cyrillic script: ва
    • Latin script: va

و - Hijazi Arabic

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA: /waːw/
  • (phonemes): IPA: /w/, /uː/, /oː/, /u/

Letter

و / ‍و (wāw)

  1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet. It is preceded by ه (h) and followed by ي (y).

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /u/

Conjunction

و (u-)

  1. and

و - Kashmiri

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA: /waːw/
  • (phoneme): IPA: /w/, /oː/

Letter

و (v)

  1. The thirty-ninth letter of the traditional alphabet chart of Kashmiri.

Forms

Isolated formFinal form
وـو

و - Kazakh

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA: /waw/
  • (phoneme): IPA: /o/ (back)
  • (phoneme): IPA: /œ/ (front)

Letter

و (o, ö)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Kazakh in Arabic Script. It represents the Cyrillic letter О or Ө.

Forms

Isolated formFinal form
وـو

Usage notes

  • Represents the back vowel phoneme /o/, unless a small ء (hamza) was placed in the beginning of the word. In Kazakh the Hamza marks that all vowels in the following word are fronted. If و is the first letter and is representing a front vowel, it is combined with the hamza and the varient ٶ is used.

و - Malay

Pronunciation

  • (Name of letter) IPA: [wau̯]
  • (Phoneme, Consonant) IPA: [w]
  • (Phoneme, Consonant, Syllable initial, obsolete) IPA: [w], [v]
  • (Phoneme, Consonant, Syllable final, obsolete) IPA: [w], [f]
  • (Phoneme, Vowel) IPA: [u], [o], [ɔ]
  • (Phoneme, Vowel, Closed ultima) IPA: [o], [ɔ]

Letter

و / ‍و

  1. The thirtieth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Arabic script.

و - North Levantine Arabic

Suffix

ـو (-o/-u) m

  1. Alternative spelling of ـه after a consonant

و - Ottoman Turkish

Letter

و (vav)

  1. A letter of the Ottoman Turkish alphabet.

Conjunction

و (ve)

  1. and

Descendants

  • Turkish: ve

و - Pashto

Pronunciation

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

Letter

و (wâw)

  1. The thirty-eighth letter of the Pashto alphabet.

Forms

Isolated formFinal form
وـو

و - Persian

Pronunciation

  • (Dari) IPA: /wɑːw/
  • (Iranian Persian) IPA: /vɑːv/

Letter

و / وـ / ـوـ / ـو (vâv)

  1. The thirtieth letter of the Perso-Arabic alphabet. It is preceded by ن and followed by ه. Its name is واو.

Pronunciation

(predominant in context)

  • (Classical Persian) IPA: /u/
  • (Dari Persian) IPA: /ʊ/
  • (Iranian Persian) IPA: /o/
  • (Tajik) IPA: /u/

(predominant after a pause)

  • (Classical Persian) IPA: /wa/
  • (Dari Persian) IPA: /wa/
  • (Iranian Persian) IPA: /ve/
  • (Tajik) IPA: /va/

Conjunction

و (o, va)

  1. and
    • 21st century, Mohammad Farrokhi Yazdi
      • گر چه جیب و جام من از مال و مِی تُهیست.
        • Gar če jib o jām-e man az māl o mey tohist.
          • Although my pocket and my cup are empty of money and wine.

Usage notes

  • The Persian و (va) conjunction is not commonly joined to the following word in (contemporary) spelling.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /o/

Particle

و (-o)

  1. (colloquial, Iranian Persian, Iran) Shortened form of رو (ro); both are spoken forms of را ().
    • دستت‍‍و بلند کن.
      • Dasteto boland kon.
      • Raise your hand.

و - South Levantine Arabic

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /w/, [w]

Conjunction

و (w-)

  1. and
  2. when, while

Usage notes

  • The pronunciation varies by phonological context. It becomes u- before a single consonant (optional if the preceding word ends in a vowel) and we- before a consonant cluster.

Suffix

ـو (-o) m

  1. Alternative spelling of ـه (he, him, his) after a consonant

Suffix

ـو (-o)

  1. attached to kinship terms in order to form terms of endearment

و - Tunisian Arabic

Conjunction

و (u)

  1. and
    • حَاجْتِي بْقْلَمْ وكَرّاسَةḥājtī b-qlam u karrāsaI need a pencil and a copy-book.

و - Urdu

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): (Standard Urdu) IPA: /ʋɑːʋ/
  • (phoneme): (Standard Urdu) IPA: /ʋ/, /uː/, /oː/, /ɔː/

Letter

و (vāv)

  1. The thirty-third letter of the Urdu abjad.

Forms

Isolated formFinal form
وـو

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Urdu) IPA: /ʋə/, /oː/

Conjunction

و (va, o) (Hindi spelling )

  1. and

و - Ushojo

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA: /wɑːw/
  • (phoneme): IPA: /w~v/

Letter

و (wāw)

  1. The thirty-ninth of the Ushojo abjad.

Conjunction

و (va)

  1. or

و - Yoruba

Pronunciation

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

Letter

و (w)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Yoruba alphabet in the ajami script, equivalent to Latin script w.

Forms

Isolated formFinal form
وـو
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