ou

From Hawaiian ʻōʻū

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊ.uː/

ou (plural ous)

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

• Psittirostra psittacea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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• Psittirostra psittacea on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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

• (General South African, UK) IPA^(key): /əʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /oʊ/

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.”

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

ou (third-person singular, genderless)

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

• U&O

• IPA^(key): /œu/

Probably from ouwe, from Dutch oude

ou (plural ouens or ous)

1. An old fellow, guy, bloke.

From Dutch ouwe.

ou

1. attributive form of oud

ou

1. cloud

From Latin ovum. Compare Daco-Romanian ou.

ou n (plural oauã)

1. egg

• oauã/ou

From a Vulgar Latin *ovō, from Latin ovum.

ou (past participle uoatã)

1. Alternative form of oauã I lay an egg (like a hen).

• uoari/uoare
• uoat

ou

1. I

• Michael Boutin, A role and reference grammar account of Bonggi adversative constructions, A Mosaic of languages and cultures: studies celebrating the career of Karl J. Franklin (2010)

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.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈɔw/
• Rhymes: -ɔw

ou m (plural ous)

1. egg

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

• IPA^(key): /u/

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• Rhymes: -u
• Homophones: où, houe, houes, houx

ou

1. or
2. either...or

   Ou il est fou ou il est bête.

   Either he's mad or he's stupid.

• et
• soit

• “ou” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Old Portuguese ou, from Latin aut.

ou

1. or

Possibly from French vous (“you”)

ou

1. you (singular)

ou

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

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

• kou

ou

1. (usually impolite) Used to get someone's attention; oi, hey.

   Ou, mi stai ascoltando? - Oi, are you listening to me?

ou

1. Rōmaji transcription of おう

ou

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

• 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.

• u

Probably from French vous; compare Haitian Creole ou.

ou (informal to)

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

ou

1. Alternative form of yow

• “you, (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 18 May 2018.

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

From Old French ou, from Latin aut.

ou

1. (France, Guernsey) or

• IPA^(key): /u/

From Latin aut.

ou

1. or

• French: ou

From Latin ubi.

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

• Middle French: où
  • French: où

From Old Portuguese ou, from Latin aut.

• IPA^(key): /ow/

• Audio

  (file)

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.

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

• (connects equivalent names): também

ou … ou

1. either … or

ou m (plural ous)

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

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

• ou exclusivo

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

• IPA^(key): [ow]

ou n (plural ouă)

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

• oua
• oară

• ovu, obu

From Latin ovum. Compare Italian uovo, Catalan ou.

ou

1. (Campidanese) egg

• oawe

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

ou

1. off; away

• ovu, uovu

From Latin ovum (“egg”).

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

ou m (plural ova)

1. egg

ou

1. water

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

• au

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.

ou

1. Alternative form of au

ou

1. water

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