ou

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ou"

English

Etymology 1

From Hawaiian ʻōʻū

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈəʊ.uː/

Noun

ou (plural ous)

  1. A probably extinct species of Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea.
Translations
Further reading

Etymology 2

From Afrikaans ou, probably from Dutch ouwe (“old man”)

Pronunciation

Noun

ou (plural ous or ouens)

  1. (South Africa, colloquial) A fellow, guy, bloke. [from 20th c.]
    • 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage 2000, p. 292:
      “They're the same good and solid ous they'd been before. Because they managed not to think.”

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ˈuː/, (unstressed) IPA(key): /u/

Pronoun

ou (third-person singular, genderless)

  1. (obsolete or dialectal) he, she, it

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /œu/

Etymology 1

Probably from ouwe, from Dutch oude

Noun

ou (plural ouens or ous)

  1. An old fellow, guy, bloke.

Etymology 2

From Dutch ouwe.

Adjective

ou

  1. attributive form of oud

Aneme Wake

Noun

ou

  1. cloud

Aromanian

Etymology 1

From Latin ovum. Compare Daco-Romanian ou.

Noun

ou n (plural oauã)

  1. egg

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From a Vulgar Latin *ovō, from Latin ovum.

Verb

ou (past participle uoatã)

  1. Alternative form of oauã I lay an egg (like a hen).
  • uoari/uoare
  • uoat

Bonggi

Pronoun

ou

  1. I

References

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin ōvum, from Proto-Italic *ōwom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”) Compare Occitan uòu, French œuf, Spanish huevo, Italian uovo, Romanian ou.

Pronunciation

Noun

ou m (plural ous)

  1. egg

French

Etymology

From Old French ou, from Latin aut.[1]

Pronunciation

Conjunction

ou

  1. or
  2. either
    Ou il est fou ou il est bête - Either he's mad or he's stupid

See also

References

  1. ↑ Picoche, Jacqueline; Jean-Claude Rolland (2009), “ou”, in Dictionnaire étymologique du français (in French), Paris: Dictionnaires Le Robert

Further reading

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese ou, from Latin aut.

Conjunction

ou

  1. or

Haitian Creole

Etymology

Possibly from French vous (“you”)

Pronoun

ou

  1. you (singular)

Hawaiian

Pronoun

ou

  1. yours, your Second person singular possessive, o-type.

Usage notes

  • Used after negatives, numbers, locative nouns, certain prepositions, and after nouns preceded by an article or a k-determiner.

Italian

Interjection

ou

  1. (usually impolite) Used to get someone's attention; oi, hey.
    Ou, mi stai ascoltando? - Oi, are you listening to me?

Japanese

Romanization

ou

  1. Rōmaji transcription of おう

Mandarin

Romanization

ou

  1. Nonstandard spelling of ōu.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of óu.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of ǒu.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of òu.

Usage notes

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Mauritian Creole

Alternative forms

Etymology

Probably from French vous; compare Haitian Creole ou.

Pronoun

ou (informal to)

  1. you (second-person singular formal personal pronoun)

See also

Middle English

Pronoun

ou

  1. Alternative form of yow

References

Middle French

Preposition

ou

  1. within
    • 15th century, Chronique de Charles VII roi de France par Jean Chartier, Tomé II, edited by Vallet de Viriville. Paris: P. Jannet, 1858, page 18.
      Discord et division ou royaulme de Castile.
      Discord and division within the kingdom of Castile

Norman

Etymology

From Old French ou, from Latin aut.

Conjunction

ou

  1. (France, Guernsey) or

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin aut.

Conjunction

ou

  1. or

Descendants

  • French: ou

Etymology 2

From Latin ubi.

Adverb

ou

  1. where
    • 11th century, La Vie de Saint Alexis, BNF manuscript 19525
      Dona as povres ou qu'il les pout trouver
      He gave to the poor wherever he could find them

Descendants

  • Middle French: où

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese ou, from Latin aut.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ow/
  • Audio(file)

Conjunction

ou

  1. or (connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true)
    Escolhe a opção um ou a opção dois.
    Choose option one or option two.
  2. or (connects two equivalent names)
    Mianmar, ou Birmânia, fica na Ásia.
    Myanmar, or Burma, is located in Asia.

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:ou.

Synonyms

  • (connects equivalent names): também

Conjunction

ou … ou

  1. either … or

Noun

ou m (plural ous)

  1. (logic) inclusive or (connective which yields true when at least one of the predicates is true)

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:ou.

Derived terms

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin ōvum, from Proto-Italic *ōwom, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ow]

Noun

ou n (plural ouă)

  1. egg
  2. (slang, usually plural, referring to the testicles) ball(s)

Declension

Sardinian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin ovum. Compare Italian uovo, Catalan ou.

Noun

ou

  1. (Campidanese) egg

Saterland Frisian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Frisian of, af, from Proto-Germanic *ab (“off, away”). More at off.

Preposition

ou

  1. off; away

Sicilian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin ovum (“egg”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɔhu/
  • Hyphenation: o‧u

Noun

ou m (plural ova)

  1. egg

Suena

Noun

ou

  1. water

References

  • Transnewguinea.org, citing McElhanon and Voorhoeve (1970), Smallhorn (2011) and Wilson (1969)

Tongan

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *au, from Proto-Oceanic *(i-)au, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)aku, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)aku, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)aku, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)aku.

Pronoun

ou

  1. Alternative form of au

Zia

Noun

ou

  1. water

References

  • Transnewguinea.org, citing McElhanon and Voorhoeve (1970), Smallhorn (2011) and Wilson (1969)
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