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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-, -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-, -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 Iае — The 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 ‎(Tʺ) 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 ‎(Ḱ) ч ‎(ḱ), 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 нём‎ ― Ja čitál o njóm ― I’ve read about him.
  2. (+ accusative case): against, upon
    опира́ться о сте́ну‎ ― opirátʹsja 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...

Etymology

From early Cyrillic letter onŭ.

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