و

See also: ؤ

و U+0648, و
ARABIC LETTER WAW
ه
[U+0647]
Arabic ى
[U+0649]
U+FEED, ﻭ
ARABIC LETTER WAW ISOLATED FORM

[U+FEEC]
Arabic Presentation Forms-B
[U+FEEE]
U+FEEE, ﻮ
ARABIC LETTER WAW FINAL FORM

[U+FEED]
Arabic Presentation Forms-B
[U+FEEF]

Translingual

Letter

و

  1. Arabic letter waw

Arabic

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /waːw/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /w/, /uː/, silent (in Classical Arabic)
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /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 and followed by ز (z).

See also

Etymology 2

From Proto-Semitic *wa. Cognate with Hebrew וְ־ (wə-).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wa/, [wɑ], [wæ] (MSA)
  • IPA(key): /wɪ/, /u/ (dialectal)
  • (file)

Conjunction

وَ (wa)

  1. and
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”)
Derived terms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wa/, [wɑ], [wæ] (MSA)
  • (file)

Preposition

وَ (wa)

  1. with (with a following accusative)
    سِرْتُ وَطُلُوعَ الْفَجْرِsirtu waṭulūʿa l-fajri(please add an English translation of this usage example)

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).

Central Kurdish

Alternative forms

  • وە (we)

Conjunction

و (u)

  1. and

Hijazi Arabic

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): [waːw], [wäːw]
  • (phonemes): IPA(key): /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).

Etymology 2

From Arabic وَ (wa, and).

Pronunciation

Conjunction

وَ (u-)

  1. and

Malay

Pronunciation

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

Letter

و / ‍و

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

See also


Pashto

Pronunciation

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

Letter

و (wâw)

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

Forms

Isolated formFinal form
وـو

See also

  • Previous letter: ڼ
  • Next letter: ه

Persian

Letter

و / و // (vâv)

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

See also

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

  • IPA(key): /o/ (predominant in context)
  • IPA(key): /væ/ (predominant after a pause)
  • (file)

Conjunction

Dari Persian و
Iranian Persian و
Tajiki Persian у, ва (u, va)

و (o, va)

  1. and
Usage notes
  • Unlike Arabic وَ (wa), the Persian conjunction is not commonly joined to the following word in (contemporary) spelling.

Pronunciation

Particle

و (-o)

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

Tunisian Arabic

Conjunction

و (u)

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

Urdu

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ʋaʋ/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /ʋ/, /uː/, /oː/, /ɔː/

Letter

و (wāw)

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

Forms

Isolated formFinal form
وـو

See also

  • Previous letter: ں
  • Next letter: ہ

Etymology

From Persian و

Conjunction

و (va, o)

  1. and
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