# ov
## English
### Alternative forms

* See of

### Etymology

Respelling of of popularized by Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth.

### Preposition

ov
* (very rare, nonstandard) Alternative spelling of of
** 2014, Behemoth, Ora Pro Nobis Lucifer:Scholar ov the unlight / Great volcano ov excrement

### Anagrams

* VO, Vo, Vò

## Azerbaijani
### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *āb (“hunt, chase”). Cognate with Turkish av.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ov]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

ov (definite accusative ovu, plural ovlar)
* hunt
    ova çıxmaq ― to go hunting (literally, “to go out for a hunt”)
* game, prey, catch (that which is obtained in hunt)

#### Synonyms

* şikar (South Azerbaijani, dated)

#### Derived terms

* ovçu (“hunter”)

### Further reading

* “ov” in Obastan.com.

## Central Franconian
### Alternative forms

* off (alternative spelling)
* ob (western Moselle Franconian; otherwise as a variant, but only in the sense of “if”)

### Etymology

From Old High German of, *ova, northern variant of oba.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɔf/
* Homophone: off

### Conjunction

ov
* (most dialects) if; whether
    Ich weeß net, ov dat stemmp.I don’t know if that’s true.
** 2014, “Alle Jläser huh”‎performed by Kasalla:Janz ejal, ov du jet ze fiere häs, Alles oder nix ze verliere häs, Alle Jläser zo de Stääne, Denn die Engel, die uns fähle, Stusse jään met uns aan.No matter if you have something to celebrate, Everything or nothing to lose, All our glasses up to the stars, Because the angels that we miss Like to clink with us.
* (Ripuarian) or
    Dat mösse foffzig ov sechsig Mann jewäs senn.They must’ve been fifty or sixty people.
    Donnersdaach ov Friedaach moss ich nohm Finanzamp.I need to go to the tax office Thursday or Friday.

#### Usage notes

* Though formerly generally applicable, the Ripuarian ov (“or”) is now used only in vague statements or estimates. The word odder is used in order to express an actual alternative.

## Dutch
### Alternative forms

* OV

### Etymology

Initialism of openbaar vervoer.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /oːˈveː/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

ov n (uncountable)
* public transport
    Bent u met de auto of met het ov?Did you come by car or by public transport?

#### Derived terms

* ov-ambassadeur
* ov-bedrijf
* ov-chip
* ov-chipcard
* ov-chipkaart
* ov-chippas
* ov-fiets
* ov-jaarkaart
* ov-kaart
* ov-mile
* ov-politie
* ov-poort
* ov-studentenjaarkaart
* ov-studentenkaart
* ov-taxi

### Noun

ov c (plural ov's, diminutive ov'tje n)
* Clipping of ov-chipkaart.

## Faroese
### Etymology

From Old Norse of, from Proto-Germanic *uber, whence Icelandic of. Related to English over.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [oː]
* Homophones: og (‘and’)

### Adverb

ov
* too
** ov mikið
    too much

### See also

* of
* og

## Judeo-Tat
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ov/

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Classical Persian آب (āb).

#### Noun

ov
* water
* juice
* sweat
    Synonym: ərəq

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew אָב (ʔɔḇ).

#### Noun

ov
* (Judaism) Av (the eleventh month of the civil year and the fifth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Tammuz and before Elul)

## Maia
### Adverb

ov
* here

## Romani
### Alternative forms

* jov

### Pronoun

ov
* he

#### See also

| Number | Person | Gender | Nominative | Accusative | Dative | Locative | Ablative | Instrumental | Possessive |
| Singular | First | — | me | man | manqe | manθe | manθar | mança | miro, -i, -e |
| Singular | Second | — | tu | tut | tuqe | tuθe | tuθar | tuça | tiro, -i, -e |
| Singular | Reflexive third | — | — | pes | pesqe | pesθe | pesθar | peça | pesqero, -i, -e |
| Singular | Third | Masculine | ov | les | lesqe | lesθe | lesθar | leça | lesqero, -i, -e |
| Singular | Third | Feminine | oj | la | laqe | laθe | laθar | laça | laqero, -i, -e |
| Plural | First | — | amen | amen | amenqe | amenθe | amenθar | amença | amaro, -i, -e |
| Plural | Second | — | tumen | tumen | tumenqe | tumenθe | tumenθar | tumença | tumaro, -i, -e |
| Plural | Reflexive third | — | — | pen | penqe | penθe | penθar | pença | penqero, -i, -e |
| Plural | Third | — | on | len | lenqe | lenθe | lenθar | lença | lenqero, -i, -e |
| Number | Person | Gender | Nominative | Accusative (long and short forms) | Dative | Locative | Ablative | Instrumental | Possessive |
| Singular | First | — | me | man, ma | mánge | mánde | mándar | mánsa | múrro m, múrri f, múrre pl |
| Singular | Second | — | tu | tut, tu | túke | túte | tútar | túsa | tíro m, tíri f, tíre pl |
| Singular | Reflexive third | — | — | pês, pe | pêske | pêste | pêstar | pêsa | pêsko m, pêski f, pêske pl |
| Singular | Third | Masculine | wo | lês, le | lêske | lêste | lêstar | lêsa | lêsko m, lêski f, lêske pl |
| Singular | Third | Feminine | woi | la, la | láke | láte | látar | lása | láko m, láki f, láke pl |
| Plural | First | — | ame | amên, ame | amênge | amênde | amêndar | amênsa | amáro m, amári f, amáre pl |
| Plural | Second | — | tume | tumên, tume | tumênge | tumênde | tumêndar | tumênsa | tumáro m, tumári f, tumáre pl |
| Plural | Reflexive third | — | — | pên, pe | pênge | pênde | pêndar | pênsa | pêngo m, pêngi f, pênge pl |
| Plural | Third | — | won | lên, le | lênge | lênde | lêndar | lênsa | lêngo m, lêngi f, lênge pl |

### References

* ↑ Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “ov”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 203a
* ↑ Marcel Courthiade (2009) “ov B-ćham: les”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 261b
* ↑ Yaron Matras and Evangelina Adamou (2020) “Romani and Contact Linguistics”, in Yaron Matras, Anton Tenser, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics, →DOI, →ISBN, page 341

## Romansch
### Alternative forms

* öv (Puter, Vallader)
* iev (Sursilvan)

### Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin (*)ŏvum, from Classical Latin ōvum.

### Noun

ov m (plural ovs)
* (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, biology, zoology, foods) egg

## Talysh
### Etymology

Cognate with Persian آب (āb).

### Noun

ov
* water

## Yola

From Middle English of, af, from Old English of (“of, from”), an unstressed form of æf (“from, off, away”), from Proto-West Germanic *ab.

### Alternative forms

* of, af, av

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɔv/, /av/

### Preposition

ov
* of
    Synonym: o'

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 60