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English

Expression of surprise.
Oh! I didn't see you there.Category:English terms with usage examples#OH
Expression of wonder, amazement, or awe.
Oh, wow! That's amazing.Category:English terms with usage examples#OH
Expression of understanding, affirmation, recognition, or realization.
Oh, so that's how it works.Category:English terms with usage examples#OH
A word to precede an annoyed remark.
Oh, leave me alone.Category:English terms with usage examples#OH
A word to precede an added or offhand comment or afterthought.
Oh, and don't forget your coat.Category:English terms with usage examples#OH

What if he says, "Oh, I need to see your ID"?Category:English terms with usage examples#OH
An invocation or address (similar to the vocative in languages with noun declension), often with a term of endearment.
Oh, gosh.Category:English terms with usage examples#OH
- 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?
(often poetic Category:English poetic terms#OH) Exclamation for drama or emphasis.
Oh, when will it end?Category:English terms with usage examples#OH
- 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], “The Preface”, in The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC:
  Oh by what plots, by what forſwearings, betrayings, oppreſsions, impriſonments, tortures, poyſonings, and vnder what reaſons of State, and politique ſubteltie, haue theſe forenamed Kings, […] pulled the vengeance of GOD vpon them-ſelues, […]
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- 1703, Lawrence Smith, The Evidence of Things Not Seen, page 143:
  And oh 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 […]
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Expression of pain. See ouch.
Oh! That hurt.Category:English terms with usage examples#OH
- 1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 83:
  "Oh! Oh!——I can't bear it————It is too much.——I die.—————I am going——" were Polly's expreſſions of extaſy: […]
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Space filler or extra syllable, especially in (popular) music.
- 1968, MacKinlay Kantor, Beauty Beast:
  I'm off with the raggle-taggle gypsy-oh.
  Category:English terms with quotations#OH
(interrogative) Expression of mild scepticism.
"You should watch where you're going!" "Oh?"Category:English terms with usage examples#OH

Alternative forms

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

Related terms

Translations

expression of surprise

Category:Entries with translation boxes#OH

Afrikaans: o (af)Category:Terms with Afrikaans translations#OH
Arabic: وَا (wā)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#OH, يَا (ar) (yā)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#OH or يَاه (ar) (yāh)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#OH, أُوه (ʔūh)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#OH
Egyptian Arabic: لا (lā)Category:Terms with Egyptian Arabic translations#OH, يا (yā)Category:Terms with Egyptian Arabic translations#OH
Armenian: ահ (hy) (ah)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#OH, օհ (hy) (ōh)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#OH
Bulgarian: о (bg) (o)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#OH, ах (ah)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#OH
Catalan: ohCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#OH
Chickasaw: aaCategory:Terms with Chickasaw translations#OH, kiiCategory:Terms with Chickasaw translations#OH
Chinese:
Mandarin: 哎呀 (zh) (āiyā)Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#OH, 哎哟 (zh) (āiyō)Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#OH, (different tone expresses different level of surprise) 哦 (zh) (o, ò, ó)Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#OH, 呵 (zh) (hē)Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#OH, 嗯 (zh) (ēn)Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#OH
Czech: ach (cs)Category:Terms with Czech translations#OH
Danish: åh (da)Category:Terms with Danish translations#OH
Dutch: o (nl)Category:Terms with Dutch translations#OH
Esperanto: ho (eo)Category:Terms with Esperanto translations#OH, aĥ (eo)Category:Terms with Esperanto translations#OH, hu (eo)Category:Terms with Esperanto translations#OH
Finnish: oi (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#OH, oho (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#OH
French: oh (fr)Category:Terms with French translations#OH, ah (fr)Category:Terms with French translations#OH
Galician: ohCategory:Terms with Galician translations#OH, ó (gl)Category:Terms with Galician translations#OH
Georgian: ოჰ (oh)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#OH, ახ (ax)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#OH
German: ach (de)Category:Terms with German translations#OH, oh (de)Category:Terms with German translations#OH
Greek: ω (el) (o)Category:Terms with Greek translations#OH, α (el) (a)Category:Terms with Greek translations#OH
Hiligaynon: abáoCategory:Hiligaynon links with redundant target parameters#OH Category:Terms with Hiligaynon translations#OH
Hindi: अरे (hi) (are)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#OH, हे (hi) (he)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#OH, ओ (hi) (o)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#OH
Hungarian: aj (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#OH
Icelandic: ó (is)Category:Terms with Icelandic translations#OH
Japanese: あら (ja) (ara)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#OH, おや (ja) (oya)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#OH, ああ (ja) (aa)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#OH, へえ (hee)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#OH, お (ja) (o)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#OH, あ (ja) (a)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#OH, まあ (ja) f (maa)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#OH
Korean: 아 (ko) (a)Category:Terms with Korean translations#OH, 오 (ko) (o)Category:Terms with Korean translations#OH, 어 (ko) (eo)Category:Terms with Korean translations#OH
Latgalian: oiCategory:Terms with Latgalian translations#OH, aiCategory:Terms with Latgalian translations#OH, ekCategory:Terms with Latgalian translations#OH, aCategory:Terms with Latgalian translations#OH
Latin: eheu (la)Category:Terms with Latin translations#OH, ō (la)Category:Terms with Latin translations#OH
Latvian: akCategory:Terms with Latvian translations#OH
Malay: oh (ms)Category:Terms with Malay translations#OH
Manchu: ᠣ (o)Category:Terms with Manchu translations#OH
Manx: ughCategory:Terms with Manx translations#OH
Māori: hāCategory:Terms with Māori translations#OH
Mari:
Eastern Mari: а (a)Category:Terms with Eastern Mari translations#OH
Mon: ဩ (mnw)Category:Terms with Mon translations#OH
Norwegian: oiCategory:Terms with Norwegian translations#OH, å (no)Category:Terms with Norwegian translations#OH, ai (no)Category:Terms with Norwegian translations#OH
Persian: اه (fa) (oh)Category:Terms with Persian translations#OH, آه (fa)Category:Terms with Persian translations#OH, آه (fa)Category:Terms with Persian translations#OH
Polish: och (pl)Category:Terms with Polish translations#OH, ach (pl)Category:Terms with Polish translations#OH
Portuguese: ó (pt)Category:Terms with Portuguese translations#OH
Romanian: o (ro)Category:Terms with Romanian translations#OH, oh (ro)Category:Terms with Romanian translations#OH, of (ro)Category:Terms with Romanian translations#OH
Russian: о (ru) (o)Category:Terms with Russian translations#OH, ой (ru) (oj)Category:Terms with Russian translations#OH, ах (ru) (ax)Category:Terms with Russian translations#OH, ох (ru) (ox)Category:Terms with Russian translations#OH, ого́ (ru) (ohó)Category:Russian terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#OH Category:Terms with Russian translations#OH, ого́ (ru) (ogó)Category:Terms with Russian translations#OH
Sanskrit: अहो (sa) (aho)Category:Terms with Sanskrit translations#OH (for joyful or painful surprise), हा (sa) (hā)Category:Terms with Sanskrit translations#OH, ओ (sa) (o)Category:Terms with Sanskrit translations#OH (in common speech, informally)
Serbo-Croatian: oj (sh)Category:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#OH
Spanish: oh (es)Category:Terms with Spanish translations#OH, ay (es)Category:Terms with Spanish translations#OH, ou (es)Category:Terms with Spanish translations#OH
Swahili: ee (sw)Category:Terms with Swahili translations#OH, loCategory:Terms with Swahili translations#OH, looCategory:Terms with Swahili translations#OH, o (sw)Category:Terms with Swahili translations#OH
Swedish: åh (sv)Category:Terms with Swedish translations#OH, å (sv)Category:Terms with Swedish translations#OH, oj (sv)Category:Terms with Swedish translations#OH jaså (sv)Category:Terms with Swedish translations#OH
Tagalog: ay (tl)Category:Terms with Tagalog translations#OH
Tibetan: ཨ་ཙི (a tsi)Category:Terms with Tibetan translations#OH, ཨ་མ (a ma)Category:Terms with Tibetan translations#OH, ཨ་མ་མ (a ma ma)Category:Terms with Tibetan translations#OH
Turkish: aman (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#OH
Tuvan: о (o)Category:Terms with Tuvan translations#OH
Urdu: آہ (ur) (āh)Category:Terms with Urdu translations#OH (ʾāh)
Venetan: vèrceghe (vec)Category:Terms with Venetan translations#OH, pòrco canCategory:Terms with Venetan translations#OH
Vietnamese: ồ (vi)Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#OH, ôi (vi)Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#OH, ối (vi)Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#OH
Welsh: oCategory:Terms with Welsh translations#OH
Yakut: оо (oo)Category:Terms with Yakut translations#OH
Yiddish: אָ! (o!)Category:Terms with Yiddish translations#OH

expression of wonder, amazement, or awe

expression of understanding

Category:Entries with translation boxes#OH

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

vocative

Category:Entries with translation boxes#OH

Arabic: يَا (ar) (yā)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#OH, أَيْ (ar) (ʔay)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#OH, أَيُّهَا m (ʔayyuhā)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#OH, أَيَّتُهَا f (ʔayyatuhā)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#OH
Bulgarian: о (bg) (o)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#OH, ах (ah)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#OH (threat/disappointment/)
Danish: o (da)Category:Terms with Danish translations#OH
French: ô (fr)Category:Terms with French translations#OH
Galician: ou (gl)Category:Terms with Galician translations#OH, ho (gl)Category:Terms with Galician translations#OH
German: o (de)Category:Terms with German translations#OH
Persian:
Iranian Persian: اِی (fa) (ey)Category:Terms with Iranian Persian translations#OH Category:Terms with Persian translations#OH
Russian: о (ru) (o)Category:Terms with Russian translations#OH
Tibetan: ཀྱེ (kye)Category:Terms with Tibetan translations#OH, ཀྱཻ (kyai)Category:Terms with Tibetan translations#OH

Noun

oh (plural ohs)Category:English lemmas#OH Category:English nouns#OH Category:English countable nouns#OH Category:English entries with incorrect language header#OH Category:Pages with entries#OH Category:Pages with 22 entries#OH

An utterance of oh; a spoken expression of surprise, acknowledgement, etc.
- 2011, Seabert Parsons, The Lost Codex of Palenque, page 240:
  There were ohs and ahs, and the people twisted about as they looked for her. Then they began to applaud.
  Category:English terms with quotations#OH
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Verb

oh (third-person singular simple present ohs, present participle ohing, simple past and past participle ohed)Category:English lemmas#OH Category:English verbs#OH Category:English entries with incorrect language header#OH Category:Pages with entries#OH Category:Pages with 22 entries#OH

(intransitive Category:English intransitive verbs#OH) To utter the interjection oh; to express surprise, etc.
- 1852, Merry's museum and Parley's magazine, volumes 23-24, page 46:
  A quarter of an hour elapsed, and then, after several rings at the door-bell, a smothered laugh, and a good deal of ohing and ahing, the door was thrown open, and one by one, as they were announced, in came the expected characters.
  Category:English terms with quotations#OH

Etymology 2

From Middle English Category:English terms inherited from Middle English#OH Category:English terms derived from Middle English#OH o, oo, from Old English Category:English terms inherited from Old English#OH Category:English terms derived from Old English#OH ō, from Latin Category:English terms derived from Latin#OH ō.

Noun

oh (plural ohs)Category:English lemmas#OH Category:English nouns#OH Category:English countable nouns#OH Category:English entries with incorrect language header#OH Category:Pages with entries#OH Category:Pages with 22 entries#OH

The name of the Latin script letter O/o.Category:en:Latin letter names#OH
- 2006, Ben Bova, Titan, page 33:
  One genuine recycled local glass of aitch-two-oh
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- 2011, Shallon Lester, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
  Exes and Ohs: A Downtown Girl's (Mostly Awkward) Tales of Love, Lust, Revenge, and a Little Facebook Stalking
  Category:English terms with quotations#OH
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Alternative forms

o (more common)

Derived terms

Oh Em Gee, oh em gee, oh-em-gee
oh zee, oh-zee, ohzee

Etymology 3

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

Noun

oh (plural ohs)Category:English lemmas#OH Category:English nouns#OH Category:English countable nouns#OH Category:English entries with incorrect language header#OH Category:Pages with entries#OH Category:Pages with 22 entries#OH

The digit 0 (especially in representations of speech)
- 2010, Sal Mangano, “Chapter 1: Numerics”, in Mathematica Cookbook‎, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 1:
  Jenny I've got your number. I need to make you mine. Jenny don't change your number. Eight six seven five three oh nine. Eight six seven five three oh nine. Eight six seven five three oh nine. Eight six seven five three oh nine. Tommy Tutone, "867-5309/Jenny"
  Category:English terms with quotations#OH
- 2015, John Renehan, The Valley: A Novel‎, Penguin Publishing Group, →ISBN:
  "Oh-dark-thirty," the first soldier muttered without looking at his watch.
  Category:English terms with quotations#OH

Derived terms

Translations

the digit zero in speech

Category:Entries with translation boxes#OH

Bulgarian: нула (bg) f (nula)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#OH
Danish: nul (da) nCategory:Terms with Danish translations#OH
Japanese: 〇 (ja) (maru)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#OH
Korean: 공 (ko) (gong)Category:Terms with Korean translations#OH
Malay: kosong (ms)Category:Terms with Malay translations#OH
Swedish: noll (sv)Category:Terms with Swedish translations#OH
Welsh: dim (cy)Category:Terms with Welsh translations#OH

Anagrams

'ho, HO, Ho, H₂O, h/o, ho

Category:English 2-letter words#OH Category:en:Zero#OH

Aragonese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈo/Category:Aragonese terms with IPA pronunciation#OH

Syllabification: oh

Rhymes: -o Category:Rhymes:Aragonese/o#OH Category:Rhymes:Aragonese/o/1 syllable#OH

Interjection

ohCategory:Aragonese lemmas#OH Category:Aragonese interjections#OH Category:Aragonese entries with incorrect language header#OH Category:Pages with entries#OH Category:Pages with 22 entries#OH

oh (expression of surprise, etc.)

Bahnar

Etymology

From Proto-Bahnaric Category:Bahnar terms inherited from Proto-Bahnaric#OH Category:Bahnar terms derived from Proto-Bahnaric#OH *ʔɔh.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʔɔh/Category:Bahnar terms with IPA pronunciation#OH

Noun

ohCategory:Bahnar lemmas#OH Category:Bahnar nouns#OH Category:Bahnar entries with incorrect language header#OH Category:Pages with entries#OH Category:Pages with 22 entries#OH

younger sibling

Catalan

Interjection

ohCategory:Catalan lemmas#OH Category:Catalan interjections#OH Category:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#OH Category:Pages with entries#OH Category:Pages with 22 entries#OH

oh (expression of surprise, etc.)

Dutch

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /oː/Category:Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation#OH
Audio: (file)
Category:Dutch terms with audio pronunciation#OH

Interjection

ohCategory:Dutch lemmas#OH Category:Dutch interjections#OH Category:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#OH Category:Pages with entries#OH Category:Pages with 22 entries#OH

oh

Finnish

Noun

ohCategory:Finnish lemmas#OH Category:Finnish nouns#OH Category:Finnish entries with incorrect language header#OH Category:Pages with entries#OH Category:Pages with 22 entries#OH

(housing) abbreviation of olohuone (“living room”)Category:Finnish abbreviations#OH

French

Etymology

Onomatopoeic; compare Latin ō.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /o/Category:French 1-syllable words#OH Category:French terms with IPA pronunciation#OH
Audio: (file)
Category:French terms with audio pronunciation#OH
Audio (France (Vosges)): (file)
Category:French terms with audio pronunciation#OH
Rhymes: -o Category:Rhymes:French/o#OH Category:Rhymes:French/o/1 syllable#OH

Interjection

ohCategory:French lemmas#OH Category:French interjections#OH Category:French entries with incorrect language header#OH Category:Pages with entries#OH Category:Pages with 22 entries#OH

oh

Derived terms

Galician

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈɔː]Category:Galician terms with IPA pronunciation#OH

Interjection

ohCategory:Galician lemmas#OH Category:Galician interjections#OH Category:Galician entries with incorrect language header#OH Category:Pages with entries#OH Category:Pages with 22 entries#OH

oh (expression of surprise, etc.)
Synonym: ó

References

Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “oh”, in Dicionario 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”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “oh”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

German

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /oː/Category:German 1-syllable words#OH Category:German terms with IPA pronunciation#OH
Audio (Germany (Berlin)): (file)
Category:German terms with audio pronunciation#OH

Interjection

ohCategory:German lemmas#OH Category:German interjections#OH Category:German entries with incorrect language header#OH Category:Pages with entries#OH Category:Pages with 22 entries#OH

oh

Hokkien

For pronunciation and definitions of oh – see 惡 (“evil; wicked; foul; fierce; hostile; ferocious; cruel; overbearing; domineering; over-strict; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 惡).