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See also:Appendix:Variations of "oh"

English

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Pronunciation

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(UK)IPA^(key): /əʊ/
Audio(RP): (file)
(Yorkshire)IPA^(key): [ö̞]
(US)IPA^(key): /oʊ/
Audio(US,surprise): (file)
Audio(US,realization): (file)
Audio(US,male voice): (file)
Audio(US,female voice): (file)
Homophones:o,O,owe
Rhymes:-əʊ

Etymology 1

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Inherited fromMiddle Englisho.

Interjection

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Expression ofsurprise.
Oh! I didn't see you there.
Expression ofwonder,amazement, orawe.
Oh, wow! That's amazing.
Expression ofunderstanding,affirmation,recognition, orrealization.
Oh, so that's how it works.
A word to precede anoffhand or annoyed remark.
Oh, leave me alone.
A word to precede an added comment orafterthought.
Oh, and don't forget your coat.
An invocation or address (similar to thevocative in languages with noundeclension), often with a term of endearment.
Oh,gosh
- 1998, Max Martin,...Baby One More Time (song performed by Britney Spears)
  Oh baby, baby, how was I supposed to know / That something wasn't right here?
Exclamation for drama or emphasis (often poetic).
Oh, when will it end?
- 1703, Lawrence Smith,The Evidence of Things Not Seen, page143:
  Andoh how stingingly acute, and pungently grievous and tormentive, are the remembrancing Reflections of a separate uncloathed Soul in the other World, upon a review of its mad Choice, foolish Hopes, fruitless Desires[…]
- 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e.,Walter Raleigh],The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby forWalter Burre, […],→OCLC,(please specify |book=1 to 5):
  Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings[…] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves[…]
Expression of pain. Seeouch.
Oh! That hurt.
- 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, inMemoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton andRalph Griffiths] […],→OCLC:
  "Oh! . . .oh! . . . I can't bear it . . . It is too much . . . I die . . . I am going . . ." were Polly's expressions of extasy
Space filler or extra syllable, especially in (popular) music.
- 1968, MacKinlay Kantor,Beauty Beast:
  I'm off with the raggle-taggle gypsy-oh.
(interrogative)Expression of mildscepticism.
"You should watch where you're going!" "Oh?"
A word to mark a spoken phrase as imaginary.
What if he says "Oh, I need to see your ID"?

Alternative forms

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Particularly in the context of Internet conversations, "oh" is sometimes written with additional Os or Hs - for example,ohhh. See alsoooh.

expression of surprise

Afrikaans:o (af)
Arabic:وَا(wā),يَا (ar)(yā),أُوه(ʔūh),أُوه(ʔūh)
Egyptian Arabic:لاااا(laaa),ياااا(yaaa)
Armenian:ահ (hy)(ah),օհ (hy)(ōh)
Chickasaw:aa,kii
Chinese:
Mandarin:哎呀 (zh)(āiyā),哎哟 (zh)(āiyō),(different tone expresses different level of surprise)哦 (zh)(o, ò, ó),呵 (zh)(hē),嗯 (zh)(ēn)
Czech:ach (cs)
Danish:åh (da)
Dutch:o (nl)
Esperanto:ho (eo),aĥ (eo),hu (eo)
Finnish:oi (fi),oho (fi)
French:oh (fr),ah (fr)
Galician:oh,ó (gl)
Georgian:ოჰ(oh),ახ(ax)
German:ach (de),oh (de)
Greek:ω (el)(o),α (el)(a)
Hiligaynon:abáo
Hindi:अरे (hi)(are),हे (hi)(he),ओ (hi)(o)
Hungarian:aj (hu)
Icelandic:ó (is)
Japanese:あら (ja)(ara),おや (ja)(oya),まあ (ja)(maa),ああ (ja)(aa),へえ(hee),お (ja)(o),あ (ja)(a)
Korean:아 (ko)(a),오 (ko)(o),어 (ko)(eo)
Latgalian:oi,ai,ek,a
Latin:eheu (la),ō (la)
Latvian:ak
Malay:oh (ms)
Manchu:ᠣ(o)
Manx:ugh
Maori:hā
Mari:
Eastern Mari:а(a)
Mon:ဩ (mnw)
Norwegian:oi,å (no),ai (no)
Persian:اه (fa)(oh),آه (fa),آه (fa)
Polish:och (pl),ach (pl)
Portuguese:ó (pt)
Romanian:o (ro),oh (ro),of (ro)
Russian:о (ru)(o),ой (ru)(oj),ах (ru)(ax),ох (ru)(ox),ого́ (ru)(ohó),ого́ (ru)(ogó)
Sanskrit:अहो (sa)(aho)(for joyful or painful surprise),हा (sa)(hā),ओ (sa)(o)(in common speech, informally)
Serbo-Croatian:oj (sh)
Spanish:oh (es),ai (es)
Swahili:ee,lo,loo,o
Swedish:åh (sv),å (sv),oj (sv)jaså (sv)
Tagalog:ay (tl)
Tibetan:ཨ་ཙི(a tsi),ཨ་མ(a ma),ཨ་མ་མ(a ma ma)
Turkish:please add this translation if you can
Tuvan:о(o)
Urdu:آہ (ur)(āh) (ʾāh)
Venetan:vèrceghe (vec),pòrco can
Vietnamese:ồ (vi),ôi (vi),ối (vi)
Welsh:o
Yakut:оо(oo)
Yiddish:אָ!(o!)

expression of wonder, amazement, or awe

Czech:ó (cs)
Danish:åh (da)
Swedish:oj (sv),å (sv),åh (sv)
Tibetan:ཨ་ཙི(a tsi),ཨ་མ(a ma),ཨ་མ་མ(a ma ma),ཨ་ཧ(a ha),ཨེ་མ་ཧོ(e ma ho),ཨ་ལ་ལ(a la la)

expression of understanding

Arabic:آه (ar)(ʔāh)
Chinese:
Mandarin:哦 (zh)(ō, o);噢 (zh)(ō)
Czech:aha (cs),ach (cs)
Finnish:ai (fi),aa (fi)
Galician:ah (gl)
Manchu:ᠣ(o)
Mongolian:өө (mn)(öö)
Portuguese:ah (pt)
Russian:а (ru)(a),ага (ru)(aga)
Swedish:jaha (sv)
Tibetan:ཨ་ལས(a las)

vocative

Arabic:يَا (ar)(yā),أَيْ (ar)(ʔay)
Danish:o (da)
French:ô (fr)
Galician:ou (gl),ho (gl)
Tibetan:ཀྱེ(kye),ཀྱཻ(kyai)

Noun

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oh (pluralohs)

An utterance ofoh; a spoken expression of surprise, acknowledgement, etc.
- 2011, Seabert Parsons,The Lost Codex of Palenque, page240:
  There wereohs and ahs, and the people twisted about as they looked for her. Then they began to applaud.

Verb

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oh (third-person singular simple presentohs,present participleohing,simple past and past participleohed)

(intransitive) To utter the interjectionoh; to express surprise, etc.
- 1852,Merry's museum and Parley's magazine, volumes23-24, page46:
  A quarter of an hour elapsed, and then, after several rings at the door-bell, a smothered laugh, and a good deal ofohing and ahing, the door was thrown open, and one by one, as they were announced, in came the expected characters.

Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englisho,oo, fromOld Englishō, fromLatinō.

Noun

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oh (pluralohs)

The name of theLatin-script letterO/o.
- 2006,Ben Bova,Titan, page33:
  One genuine recycled local glass of aitch-two-oh
- 2011, Shallon Lester,(Please provide the book title or journal name):
  Exes andOhs: A Downtown Girl's (Mostly Awkward) Tales of Love, Lust, Revenge, and a Little Facebook Stalking

Alternative forms

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o(more common)

Derived terms

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Etymology 3

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This entry needsquotations to illustrate usage. If you come across any interesting,durably archived quotes then please add them!
Particularly: “digit 0 sense”

Fromo(“zero”).

Noun

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oh (pluralohs)

the digit0 (especially in representations of speech)
My telephone number is four-double-three-two-oh-nine.
.08 reads pointoh eight.

Derived terms

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Translations

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the digit zero in speech

Danish:nul (da) n
Japanese:〇 (ja)(maru)
Korean:공 (ko)(gong)
Malay:kosong (ms)
Swedish:noll (sv)
Welsh:dim (cy)

Anagrams

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'ho,HO,Ho,H₂O,h/o,ho

Aragonese

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Pronunciation

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IPA^(key): /ˈo/
Rhymes:-o
Syllabification:oh

Interjection

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oh(expression ofsurprise, etc.)

Bahnar

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Etymology

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FromProto-Bahnaric*ʔɔh.

Pronunciation

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IPA^(key): /ʔɔh/

Noun

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younger sibling

Catalan

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Interjection

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oh(expression ofsurprise, etc.)

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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IPA^(key): /oː/
Audio: (file)

Interjection

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Finnish

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Noun

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(housing)Abbreviation ofolohuone(“living room”).

French

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Etymology

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Onomatopoeic; compare Latinō.

Pronunciation

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IPA^(key): /o/
Audio: (file)
Rhymes:-o

Interjection

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Derived terms

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Galician

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Pronunciation

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IPA^(key): [ˈɔː]

Interjection

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oh(expression ofsurprise, etc.)
Synonym:ó

References

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Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “oh”, inDicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández,Ernesto Xosé González Seoane,María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “oh”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “oh”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega,→ISSN