و
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Arabic
Pronunciation
Letter
و / و • (wāw)
Symbol
و / و • (wāw)
See also
- (Arabic script letters) ا (ā), ب (b), ت (t), ث (ṯ), ج (j), ح (ḥ), خ (ḵ), د (d), ذ (ḏ), ر (r), ز (z), س (s), ش (š), ص (ṣ), ض (ḍ), ط (ṭ), ظ (ẓ), ع (ʿ), غ (ḡ), ف (f), ق (q), ك (k), ل (l), م (m), ن (n), ه (h), و (w), ي (y)
- ؤ (ʾ)
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Etymology 2
From Proto-Semitic *wa. Cognate with Hebrew וְ־ (wə-).
Usage notes
Arabic conjunctions and prepositions that have only one letter, such as وَ (wa), are written as a prefix.
وَ (wa) is written at the beginning of every word in a list, except the first. In English, it is more common for the corresponding conjunction and to be written only before the last item in the list
- كُتُب وَطُرُود وَأَوْرَاق
- kutub wa-ṭurūd wa-ʾawrāq
- books, parcels, and papers
- (literally, “books and parcels and papers”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /wa/, [wɑ], [wæ] (MSA)
Audio (file)
Preposition
وَ • (wa)
- with (with a following accusative)
- سِرْتُ وَطُلُوعَ الْفَجْرِ ― sirtu waṭulūʿa l-fajri ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Interfix
ـَوـ • (-aw-)
- 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”).
Malay
Pronunciation
Pashto
Letter
و • (wâw)
- The thirty-eighth letter of the Pashto alphabet.
Forms
Isolated form | Final form |
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و | ـو |
Persian
Letter
و / و / ﻮ / ﻮ • (vâv)
- The thirtieth letter of the Perso-Arabic alphabet. It is preceded by ن and followed by ه. Its name is واو.
Etymology 1
From Middle Persian 𐭠𐭥𐭣 (ud), 𐭠𐭥 (u); from Old Persian 𐎢𐎫𐎠 (u-t-a /utā/, “and”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *(H)utá, from *(H)u, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂u. Later influenced by and to some degree conflated with Arabic وَ (wa).
Pronunciation
Usage notes
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /o/
Tunisian Arabic
Conjunction
و (u)
- and
- حَاجْتِي بْقْلَمْ وكَرّاسَة ― ḥājtī b-qlam u karrāsa ― I need a pencil and a copy-book
Urdu
Forms
Isolated form | Final form |
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و | ـو |
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