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О

О

О U+041E, О
CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER O
Н
[U+041D]
Cyrillic П
[U+041F]
See also: о, ѿ, ӧ, о., , о-, -о-, and Appendix:Variations of "o"

Translingual

Letter

О upper case (lower case о)

  1. A letter of several Cyrillic alphabets.

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

  • O (Serbo-Croatian Latin/Roman alphabet)

Letter

О (upper case, lower case о)

  1. The eighteenth letter of the Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic alphabet. It is preceded by the letter Њ (Nj) and is followed by the letter П (P).

Tajik

Letter

О (O) (upper case, lower case о)

  1. The nineteenth letter of the Tajik Cyrillic alphabet. It is preceded by the letter Н (N) (Ne) and is followed by the letter П (P) (Pe).

о

о

о U+043E, о
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER O
н
[U+043D]
Cyrillic п
[U+043F]
See also: ѿ, О, ӧ, о., , о-, -о-, and Appendix:Variations of "o"

Translingual

Cyrillic letter О о (О о), normal above, italics below.
Handwritten forms

Letter

о (lower case, upper case О)

  1. Cyrillic small letter o

Related terms

  • o (Latin alphabet)

See also


Adyghe

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [wa]

Pronoun

о (o)

  1. you (singular)

Noun

о (o)

  1. weather
    Ом изытет IаеThe weather is so bad.
    Сэ сыкъэкIощтэп, сыда пIомэ ом изытет Iэе дэд — I am not coming because the weather is so bad.

Synonyms

Derived terms


Old Church Slavonic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *o(b), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ebʰi.

Preposition

о (o)

  1. about
  2. around
  3. through
  4. during
  5. because of
  6. for
  7. in

Related terms

References

  • Mali staroslavensko-hrvatski rječnik, Matica hrvatska, Zagreb, 2004

Ossetian

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /o/

Letter

о (o) (upper case О)

  1. The nineteenth letter of the Ossetian alphabet

See also

  • (Cyrillic script letters) А (A) а (a), Ӕ (Æ) ӕ (æ), Б (B) б (b), В (V) в (v), Г (G) г (g), Гъ (Ǧ) гъ (ǧ), Д (D) д (d), Дж (Ǵ) дж (ǵ), Дз (Ʒ) дз (ʒ), Е (E) е (e), З (Z) з (z), И (I) и (i), Й (J) й (j), К (K) к (k), Къ (K’) къ (k’), Л (L) л (l), М (M) м (m), Н (N) н (n), О (O) о (o), П (P) п (p), Пъ (P’) пъ (p’), Р (R) р (r), С (S) с (s), Т (T) т (t), Тъ () тъ (t’), У (U) у (u), Ф (F) ф (f), Х (X) х (x), Хъ (Q) хъ (q), Ц (C) ц (c), Цъ (C’) цъ (c’), Ч () ч (), Чъ (Ḱ’) чъ (ḱ’), Ы (Y) ы (y)

Romanian

Article

о

  1. Cyrillic spelling of o.

Russian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [o]

Letter

о (o) (lower case, upper case О)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Russian Cyrillic alphabet.
See also
  • Previous letter: н (n)
  • Next letter: п (p)

Noun

о (o) n inan (indeclinable)

  1. The Cyrillic letter О (O), о (o).
  2. The Roman letter O, o.

Etymology 2

Interjection

о (o)

  1. oh
    О бо́же!O bóže! ― Oh God!

Etymology 3

From Proto-Slavic *o(b), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ebʰi.

Alternative forms

  • об (ob) (before vowels and in some other cases)
  • обо (obo) (before some words such as мне or все)

Pronunciation

  • (stressed) IPA(key): [o]
  • (unstressed) IPA(key): [ə]
  • (unstressed, pre-tonal) IPA(key): [ɐ]

Preposition

о (o)

  1. (+ prepositional case): about, of, on
    Я чита́л о нёмJa čitál o njóm ― I’ve read about him.
  2. (+ accusative case): against, upon
    опира́ться о сте́нуopirátʹsja o sténu ― to lean against the wall

Pronunciation and usage notes

The о form is unstressed except in the idiom бок о́‎ бок.

The form о is usually used before consonants. In some cases before consonants the form обо is used. Before a iotated vowel and before the pronoun их the forms об and o are used interchangeably.

Instead of его, её, the forms beginning with н- are used: о него, о неё.


Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

  • (uppercase): О

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /o/

Letter

о (Latin spelling o)

  1. The 18th letter of the Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic alphabet, preceded by њ and followed by п.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *o(b), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ebʰi. See о-, об-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /o/

Preposition

о (Latin spelling o)

  1. (with accusative) on, against
    об(ј)есити нешто о куку — to hang something on a hook
    ударити главом о зид — to hit one's head against the wall
    огр(иј)ешити се о закон — to violate a law
  2. (with locative) about, concerning
    бринути се о некоме — to take care of somebody
    в(иј)ест о катастрофи — news about the catastrophe
    р(иј)еч је о..., ради се о.... — it's about..., this refers to...