OH

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• UK: /əʊ/
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• Yorkshire: [ö̞]
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• US: /oʊ/
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• homophone: o
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• homophone: O
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• homophone: owe
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• rhymes with -əʊ
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• /oʊ/
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• CMU ARPABET: OW1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Inherited from Middle English o.

From Korean 오(吳) (O).

From possibly Hokkien 胡 (Ô͘).

From Middle English o, oo, from Old English ō, from Latin ō.

From o (“zero”), extended use of letter O name based on similar shape of the number 0.

161 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: o — expression of surprise
• Arabic: وَا (wā) — expression of surprise
• Arabic: يَا or يَاه (yā) — expression of surprise
• Arabic: أُوه (ʔūh) — expression of surprise
• Arabic: لا (lā) — expression of surprise
• Arabic: يا (yā) — expression of surprise
• Armenian: ահ (ah) — expression of surprise
• Armenian: օհ (ōh) — expression of surprise
• Bulgarian: о (o) — expression of surprise
• Bulgarian: ах (ah) — expression of surprise
• Catalan: oh — expression of surprise
• Chickasaw: aa — expression of surprise
• Chickasaw: kii — expression of surprise
• Chinese Mandarin: 哎呀 (āiyā) — expression of surprise
• Chinese Mandarin: 哎哟 (āiyō) — expression of surprise
• Chinese Mandarin: 哦 (o, ò, ó) — expression of surprise
• Chinese Mandarin: 呵 (hē) — expression of surprise
• Chinese Mandarin: 嗯 (ēn) — expression of surprise
• Czech: ach — expression of surprise
• Danish: åh — expression of surprise
• Dutch: o — expression of surprise
• Esperanto: ho — expression of surprise
• Esperanto: aĥ — expression of surprise
• Esperanto: hu — expression of surprise
• Finnish: oi — expression of surprise
• Finnish: oho — expression of surprise
• French: oh — expression of surprise
• French: ah — expression of surprise
• Galician: oh — expression of surprise
• Galician: ó — expression of surprise
• Georgian: ოჰ (oh) — expression of surprise
• Georgian: ახ (ax) — expression of surprise
• German: ach — expression of surprise
• German: oh — expression of surprise
• Greek: ω (o) — expression of surprise
• Greek: α (a) — expression of surprise
• Hiligaynon: abáo — expression of surprise
• Hindi: अरे (are) — expression of surprise
• Hindi: हे (he) — expression of surprise
• Hindi: ओ (o) — expression of surprise
• Hungarian: aj — expression of surprise
• Icelandic: ó — expression of surprise
• Japanese: あら (ara) — expression of surprise
• Japanese: おや (oya) — expression of surprise
• Japanese: ああ (aa) — expression of surprise
• Japanese: へえ (hee) — expression of surprise
• Japanese: お (o) — expression of surprise
• Japanese: あ (a) — expression of surprise
• Japanese: まあ (maa) — expression of surprise
• Korean: 아 (a) — expression of surprise
• Korean: 오 (o) — expression of surprise
• Korean: 어 (eo) — expression of surprise
• Latgalian: oi — expression of surprise
• Latgalian: ai — expression of surprise
• Latgalian: ek — expression of surprise
• Latgalian: a — expression of surprise
• Latin: eheu — expression of surprise
• Latin: ō — expression of surprise
• Latvian: ak — expression of surprise
• Malay: oh — expression of surprise
• Manchu: ᠣ (o) — expression of surprise
• Manx: ugh — expression of surprise
• Māori: hā — expression of surprise
• Eastern Mari: а (a) — expression of surprise
• Mon: ဩ — expression of surprise
• Norwegian: oi — expression of surprise
• Norwegian: å — expression of surprise
• Norwegian: ai — expression of surprise
• Persian: اه (oh) — expression of surprise
• Persian: آه — expression of surprise
• Polish: och — expression of surprise
• Polish: ach — expression of surprise
• Portuguese: ó — expression of surprise
• Romanian: o — expression of surprise
• Romanian: oh — expression of surprise
• Romanian: of — expression of surprise
• Russian: о (o) — expression of surprise
• Russian: ой (oj) — expression of surprise
• Russian: ах (ax) — expression of surprise
• Russian: ох (ox) — expression of surprise
• Russian: ого́ (ohó) — expression of surprise
• Russian: ого́ (ogó) — expression of surprise
• Sanskrit: अहो (aho) — expression of surprise
• Sanskrit: हा (hā) — expression of surprise
• Sanskrit: ओ (o) — expression of surprise
• Serbo-Croatian: oj — expression of surprise
• Spanish: oh — expression of surprise
• Spanish: ay — expression of surprise
• Spanish: ou — expression of surprise
• Swahili: ee — expression of surprise
• Swahili: lo — expression of surprise
• Swahili: loo — expression of surprise
• Swahili: o — expression of surprise
• Swedish: åh — expression of surprise
• Swedish: å — expression of surprise
• Swedish: oj jaså — expression of surprise
• Tagalog: ay — expression of surprise
• Tibetan: ཨ་ཙི (a tsi) — expression of surprise
• Tibetan: ཨ་མ (a ma) — expression of surprise
• Tibetan: ཨ་མ་མ (a ma ma) — expression of surprise
• Turkish: aman — expression of surprise
• Tuvan: о (o) — expression of surprise
• Urdu: آہ (āh) — expression of surprise
• Venetan: vèrceghe — expression of surprise
• Venetan: pòrco can — expression of surprise
• Vietnamese: ồ — expression of surprise
• Vietnamese: ôi — expression of surprise
• Vietnamese: ối — expression of surprise
• Welsh: o — expression of surprise
• Yakut: оо (oo) — expression of surprise
• Yiddish: אָ! (o!) — expression of surprise
• Bulgarian: еха (eha) — expression of wonder, amazement, or awe
• Czech: ó — expression of wonder, amazement, or awe
• Danish: åh — expression of wonder, amazement, or awe
• Swedish: oj — expression of wonder, amazement, or awe
• Swedish: å — expression of wonder, amazement, or awe
• Swedish: åh — expression of wonder, amazement, or awe
• Tibetan: ཨ་ཙི (a tsi) — expression of wonder, amazement, or awe
• Tibetan: ཨ་མ (a ma) — expression of wonder, amazement, or awe
• Tibetan: ཨ་མ་མ (a ma ma) — expression of wonder, amazement, or awe
• Tibetan: ཨ་ཧ — expression of wonder, amazement, or awe
• Tibetan: ཨེ་མ་ཧོ (e ma ho) — expression of wonder, amazement, or awe
• Tibetan: ཨ་ལ་ལ — expression of wonder, amazement, or awe
• Arabic: آه (ʔāh) — expression of understanding
• Bulgarian: а (a) — expression of understanding
• Chinese Mandarin: 哦 (ō, o) — expression of understanding
• Chinese Mandarin: 噢 (ō) — expression of understanding
• Czech: aha — expression of understanding
• Czech: ach — expression of understanding
• Finnish: ai — expression of understanding
• Finnish: aa — expression of understanding
• Galician: ah — expression of understanding
• Manchu: ᠣ (o) — expression of understanding
• Mongolian: өө (öö) — expression of understanding
• Portuguese: ah — expression of understanding
• Russian: а (a) — expression of understanding
• Russian: ага (aga) — expression of understanding
• Swedish: jaha — expression of understanding
• Tibetan: ཨ་ལས (a las) — expression of understanding
• Arabic: يَا (yā) — vocative
• Arabic: أَيْ (ʔay) — vocative
• Arabic: أَيُّهَا (ʔayyuhā) — vocative
• Arabic: أَيَّتُهَا (ʔayyatuhā) — vocative
• Bulgarian: о (o) — vocative
• Bulgarian: ах — vocative
• Danish: o — vocative
• French: ô — vocative
• Galician: ou — vocative
• Galician: ho — vocative
• German: o — vocative
• Iranian Persian: اِی (ey) — vocative
• Russian: о (o) — vocative
• Tibetan: ཀྱེ (kye) — vocative
• Tibetan: ཀྱཻ (kyai) — vocative
• Bulgarian: нула (nula) — the digit zero in speech
• Danish: nul — the digit zero in speech
• Japanese: 〇 (maru) — the digit zero in speech
• Korean: 공 (gong) — the digit zero in speech
• Malay: kosong — the digit zero in speech
• Swedish: noll — the digit zero in speech
• Welsh: dim — the digit zero in speech