no

no

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Norwegian.

• nah, nope, nay

• (UK) IPA^(key): /nəʊ/

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  • Rhymes: -əʊ
• (US) IPA^(key): /noʊ/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /nəʉ/, /nɐʉ/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /nɐʉ/

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• (General South African) IPA^(key): /nœʊ/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [noʊ̯], [noː]
• Homophones: know, noh

Inherited from Middle English no, noo, na, a reduced form of none, noon, nan (“none, not any”) used before consonants (compare a to an), from Old English nān (“none, not any”), from Proto-West Germanic *nain, from Proto-Germanic *nainaz (“not any”, literally “not one”), equivalent to ne (“not”) +‎ a.

Cognate with Scots nae (“no, not any, none”), Old Frisian nān, nēn ("no, not any, none"), Saterland Frisian naan, neen (“no, not any, none”), North Frisian nian (“no, not any, none”), Old Dutch nēn ("no, not any, none"; > Dutch neen (“no”)), Old Norse neinn (“no, not any, none”). Compare also Old Saxon nigēn ("not any"; > Low German nen), Old Dutch nehēn (Middle Dutch negheen/negeen, Dutch geen), West Frisian gjin, Old High German nihein (> German kein). More at no, one.

no

1. Not any.

   Synonyms: zero, not even one, not one

   Antonyms: any, some; one; a few, a couple of, a handful of; multiple, various; many, numerous; countless, every single

   no one

   There is no water left.

   No hot dogs were sold yesterday.

   I've got no wife and no children either.

   No two people are the same.

   There was no score at the end of the first period. (The score was 0-0.)

2. Hardly any.

   Antonyms: quite, some

   We'll be finished in no time at all.

   Fifty pounds for this is no money, really.

3. Not any possibility or allowance of (doing something).

   No smoking. No parking.

   There's no stopping her once she gets going.

   No under-18s (allowed).

4. Not (a); not properly, not really; not fully.

   My mother's no fool.

   Working nine to five every day is no life.

   No geese have blue beaks.

Inherited from Middle English no, na, from Old English nā, nō (“no, not, not ever, never”), from Proto-West Germanic *naiwō, from Proto-Germanic *naiwô (“never”), *ne (“not”), from Proto-Indo-European *né, *nē, *nēy (negative particle), equivalent to Old English ne (“not”) + ā, ō (“ever, always”). Cognate with Scots na (“no”), Saterland Frisian noa (“no”), West Frisian né (“no”), nea (“never”), Dutch nee (“no”), Low German nee (“no”), German nie (“never”), dialectal German nö (“no”), Danish nej (“no”), Swedish nej (“no”), Icelandic nei (“no”). More at nay.

no (not comparable)

1. (with following adjective) Not, not at all.
   1. Used before different, before comparatives with more and less, and idiomatically before other comparatives.

      It is a less physical kind of torture, but no less gruesome.

      I can think of no more deserving cause.

      Look no further than one's nose.

      This is no different from what we've been doing all along.

      Is your sister any better? ~ No different. Still ill.

   2. (informal) Used idiomatically before certain other adjectives.

      This thing is no good.

      The teacher’s decision was no fair.

2. (without adjective, now Scotland, informal) Not.

   I just want to find out whether she's coming or no.

   Can ye no help me?

   • 1725, Daniel Defoe, An essay on the history and reality of apparitions:

     AS the Devil is not so Black as he is Painted, so neither does he appear in so many Shapes as we make for him; we Dress him up in more Suits of Cloaths, and more Masquerade Habits, than ever he wore; and I question much, if he was to see the Pictures and Figures which we call Devil, whether he would know himself by some of them or no.

no

1. Used to show disagreement, negation, denial, refusal, or prohibition.

   Synonyms: nay, nope; see also Thesaurus:no

   Antonyms: aye, maybe, yea, yes; see also Thesaurus:yes

   No, you are mistaken.

   No, you may not watch television now.

   David, no!

2. Used to show agreement with a negative question.

   Synonyms: nah, nay, nope

   "Don’t you like milk?" "No." (i.e., "No, I don’t like milk.")

3. (colloquial) Used together with an affirmative word or phrase to show agreement.

   No, totally.

   No, yeah, that's exactly right.

   "Wow!" "Yeah, no, it was really awful!"

• → American Sign Language: H^o@Side-PalmForward Flatten

no

1. Without.
2. Like.
3. (colloquial, usually humorous) Not, does not, do not, etc.

   Ug no like veggie.

• When used humorously to mean “not” or “does not”, this word usually implies a caveman-like way of speaking.

no (plural noes or nos)

1. A negating expression; an answer that shows disagreement, denial, refusal, or disapproval.
   • 1994, Brannon Braga, Ronald D. Moore, “All Good Things...”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 7, episodes 25-26, John de Lancie (actor):

     Q: I'll answer any ten questions that call for a yes or a no.

2. A vote not in favor, or opposing a proposition.

   The workers voted on whether to strike, and there were thirty yeses and two nos.

• nope
• nay

• aye
• yea
• yes

no (third-person singular simple present noes, present participle noing, simple past and past participle noed)

1. (intransitive, colloquial) To say “no”.
   • 1983, Sasha Moorsom, chapter 5, in In the Shadow of the Paradise Tree, London; Melbourne, Vic.; Henley-on-Thame, Oxfordshire: Routledge & Kegan Paul, →ISBN, page 80:

     She felt disquiet at these tales of Musa’s illicit activities. ‘Does your father know?’ / ‘My father always noes. He never yeses. Specially when he’s sick, then he noes all the time. I gotta get out. Can’t stick around the house with him yelling. […]’

   • 1994, Malcolm Ross, “Part Three: The New Woman”, in Kernow & Daughter, London: BCA, →ISBN, page 293:

     “Heaven knows why a woman ‘Noes’!” / Clarrie nodded glumly. “And why she ‘Yesses’ in the end.”

   • 2001, Nicholas Weinstock, “The Flowers”, in As Long As She Needs Me, New York, N.Y.: Perennial, published 2002, →ISBN, page 140:

     There were days, entire years of his life, spent yessing and noing on the phone, picking up and hanging up and accomplishing nothing at all.

2. (transitive, colloquial) To answer with “no”; to decline, reject.
   • 1835 April, “The Whimsey Papers.—No. II. Vague Conclusions Concerning Selfishness and Benevolence—Vivid the Casuist—Skinflint the Misanthrope—Green, the Good-Natured Man.”, in [Caroline Norton], editor, The Court Magazine, […], volume VI, number IV, London: Edward Churton, […], →OCLC, page 168, column 1:

     Never accustom yourself to say ‘Yes,’—practise an emphatic and decisive enunciation of the far more dignified and important monosyllable, ‘No.’ […] Believe me, it is of the utmost importance (the advice is not of recent date) that you should No the world.

   • 1940 March 17, “Back of the CAA Fight: Independence or Closer Executive Control of Aviation Agency”, in David Lawrence, editor, The United States News, Washington, D.C.: United States News Publishing Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 33, column 2:

     BUDGET DIRECTOR SMITH / The President yessed his report […] SENATOR McCARRAN / He noed the President’s report

   • 1955, Fred Rodell, “Powerful, Irresponsible, and Human”, in Nine Men: A Political History of the Supreme Court from 1790 to 1955, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 12:

     Yet in every such instance—and there are scores of them—the Justices can do nothing but impotently point toward future action after Yessing or Noing past action by men in a position to act.

Variant of No., from the scribal abbreviation for Latin (in) numerō (“in number, to the number of”).

no (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Alternative form of No..

no (plural nos)

1. Alternative form of No..

• Thesaurus:quantifier

• “no”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• yes and no on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• -on, ON, ON., on, on-

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-nəʔ (“ear”).

• (Myanmar) /nɔ˧/

no

1. ear
   • 2010, “Psalm 115:6”, in Ngochang Common Language Bible‎^[5], Yangon: Bible Society of Myanmar:

     No dap laus eq ma xauhgyo, nho dap laus eq ma yoh nam.

     [The idols have] ears stuck [to them] but do not hear; [the idols have] noses stuck [to them] but cannot smell.

Inglis's lexicon does not have this simple word for "ear", despite listing several compounds. The simple word does show up in his preliminary phonology and is attested in the Bible.

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *na², from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *na (“to rest”).

• (Myanmar) /nɔ˧/
• (Lianghe) [na³¹]
• (Longchuan) [nɔ³¹]
• (Luxi) [na⁵¹]
• (Xiandao) [nɔ³¹]

no

1. to rest, stop

• Inglis, Douglas, Sampu, Nasaw, Jaseng, Wilai, Jana, Thocha (2005) A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎^[6], Payap University, pages 93-94

• IPA^(key): [no̞]

no (Kana spelling ノ)

1. Adverbialising particle; -ly, ing

   asiri ― new

   asiri no ― newly

   pirika ― good

   pirika no ― well

   nukara ― to see

   nukara no an ― seeing (literally, “being seeing”)

   opitta ― all

   opitta no okay ― all (literally, “being all”)

no (Kana spelling ノ)

1. alternative form of ro

Related to German noch.

• (Zürich) IPA^(key): /ˈnɔ/

no

1. still, yet

   Bisch no do? ― Are you still here?

2. eventually (at an unknown time in the future)

   Er chunt scho no. ― He will come eventually.

3. (only) just; barely (by a small margin)

   Sii hät grad no so gwunne. ― She just barely won.

4. (with comparative) even

   Das isch sogar no schönner. ― This is even prettier.

• (eventually): Often used together with an antecedent scho.
• (just; barely): In this sense always used together with an antecedent grad.
• (even): It can be used together with an antecedent sogar for amplification.

no

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Cardinal : no

Inherited from Proto-Nuristani *nuwa, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnáwa, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥.

• IPA^(key): /ˈno/

no (Sanu)^[1]

1. nine

From a contraction of the preposition en (“in”) + neuter singular article lo (“the”). Compare Sicilian ntô~nnô.

no n (masculine nel, feminine na, masculine plural nos, feminine plural nes)

1. in the

• IPA^(key): /no/

no- (Bengali script নো)

1. to say

Borrowed from Hindi नौ (nau).

no (Bengali script নো)

1. nine

• chykhyw
• nain

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. For "nine", stated in Appendix 3.

no

1. water

• The Papuan Languages of New Guinea (1986, →ISBN

Inherited from Old High German noh, from Proto-West Germanic *noh, from Proto-Germanic *nuh, from Proto-Indo-European *nū-kʷe-. Cognates include German noch, Yiddish נאָך (nokh) and Dutch nog, Dutch noch.

• IPA^(key): /ˈno/

no

1. still, yet (up to and including a given time)

   Mia san no ned då. ― We're not there yet.

   Des geht si no aus. ― There's still time for that.

2. yet, eventually (at an unknown time in the future)

   Mia wern scho no åkumma. ― We'll arrive eventually.

3. additionally, in addition, besides, else; more often expressed in English with another, more

   No ana! ― Another one!

   Foid da no wås ei? ― Can you think of anything else?

4. (only) just; barely (by a small margin)

   Is se gråd no ausgånga. ― We made it just in time.

5. (with comparative) even

   Des is jå no depperter. ― That's even more stupid.

Inherited from Old Catalan no, from Latin nōn.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈno]

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• Rhymes: -o

no

1. no (negation; commonly used to respond negatively to a question)

no

1. not, main negation marker

   Antonyms: sí, hoc

   No tinc diners. ― No, I do not have money.

   No facis això. ― No, don't do that.

• no-res
• si més no

• pas

no m (plural nos)

• “no”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “no”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “no” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “no” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• noh — slang

Derived from Spanish no.

no

1. indicating surprise at, or requesting confirmation of, some new information; to express skepticism
2. indicating that what was just said was obvious and unnecessary; contrived incredulity

Short for ano (“yes”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈno]

no

1. well, why

   No ne! ― Well, I never!

no

1. certainly, indeed, of course
2. yeah, yep

• “no”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “no”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “no”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

no

1. home

• IPA^(key): /noː/

no

1. mosquito

• Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "ⁿDuᵐbea" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
• Shintani, T.L.A. & Païta, Y. (1990) Dictionnaire de la langue de Païta, Nouméa: Sociéte d'etudes historiques de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Cited in: "Drubea" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

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• IPA^(key): /no/
• Rhymes: -o
• Hyphenation: no

no (accusative singular no-on, plural no-oj, accusative plural no-ojn)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter N/n.

• (Latin-script letter names) litero; a, bo, co, ĉo, do, e, fo, go, ĝo, ho, ĥo, i, jo, ĵo, ko, lo, mo, no, o, po, ro, so, ŝo, to, u, ŭo, vo, zo

• IPA^(key): /nǒ/, [n̺ǒ], [n̪ǒ] (noun)
• IPA^(key): /nò/, [n̺ò], [n̪ò] (verb)

nǒ

1. breast

nò

1. to drink
2. to suck

• IPA^(key): /no/
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: no

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese non, from Latin nōn (“not”); probably influenced by Spanish no.

no

1. alternative form of non (“no, not”)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese no, equivalent to en (“in”) +‎ o (masculine singular definite article).

• nu (Lagarteiru, Valverdeñu)

no m sg (plural nos, feminine na, feminine plural nas)

1. (Mañegu) in the

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[7], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Similar interjections can be found in other Finnic languages (compare Estonian no, noh, Ingrian no, Karelian no, Livonian no, noh, Ludian no, Votic no) and possibly also in other Uralic languages (compare Komi-Zyrian но (no), Udmurt но (no)). Compare also to those found in neighboring Indo-European languages (such as Swedish nå, Latvian nu, Russian ну (nu)), which may all trace back as far as Proto-Indo-European *nu. SSA concludes that the interjection is probably part original and part foreign.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈno/, [ˈno̞]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification^(key): no
• Hyphenation^(key): no

no

1. well! (to acknowledge a situation; encouragement to answer or react; expressing the overcoming of reluctance to say something; exclamation of indignance)

   Alternative form: noh

   No sepä mukavaa! ― Well, that’s nice.

   No kai meidän sitten pitää käydä katsomassa. ― Well I guess we have to go look then.

   No, mikset mennyt juhliin? ― Well, why didn't you go to the party?

   Siellä oli, no, aika tylsää. ― It was, well, pretty boring there.

   No, et sinä nyt noin voi käyttäytyä! ― Well! You can't behave like that!

• “no”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[8] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• -on, on

• nº, Nº

• IPA^(key): /no/

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no m

1. abbreviation of numéro (“number”)

• on

Inherited from Latin nōn.

no

1. Antonym: sì

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

no

1. how?

• IPA^(key): /ˈno/ [ˈnʊ]
• Rhymes: -o
• Hyphenation: no

From contraction of preposition en (“in”) + masculine article o (“the”).

no m (feminine na, masculine plural nos, feminine plural nas)

1. in the

   Pois eu anque lexos estaba do conde ben o vin no tempro.

   Well, even though I was from the count's house, I saw him well in the temple.

From a mutation of o.

no m (accusative)

1. alternative form of o (“him”)

The n- forms of accusative third-person pronouns are used when the preceding word ends in -u or a diphthong, and are suffixed to the preceding word.

• “no”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “no” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “no”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “no”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “no”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

no

1. younger sister

• nogipa (formal)
• nono

Derived from Portuguese nós. Cognate with Kabuverdianu nu.

no

1. we

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /no/

no

1. for, belonging to, from

• Used for possessions that are inherited, out of personal control, and for things that can be got into (houses, clothes, cars), while na is used for acquired possessions.

no

1. husband

• Anne Storch, Hone, in Coding Participant Marking: Construction Types in Twelve African Languages, edited by Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal

Borrowed from English no, French non, Italian no, Spanish no. Paronym to ne.

• IPA^(key): /no/

no

1. no

   Antonym: yes

Cognate with Finnish no and Estonian no. It is uncertain whether this word is natively Finnic or a borrowing from an Indo-European language (compare Russian ну (nu) and Swedish nå).

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈno/, [ˈno̞]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈno/, [ˈno̞]
• Rhymes: -o
• Hyphenation: no

no

1. well
   • 1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 12:

     No nii, peen - vastajaa Valja.

     Well yes, small - Valja replies.

• nu

Borrowed from Russian но (no).

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈno/, [ˈno̞]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈno/, [ˈno̞]
• Rhymes: -o
• Hyphenation: no

no

1. but
   • 1936, L. G. Terehova, V. G. Erdeli, translated by Mihailov and P. I. Maksimov, Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun kolmatta klaassaa vart (ensimäine osa) [Geography: textbook for Ingrian elementary school third grade (first part)], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 5:

     No määmmä tunniin, toisen, a laageria ei oo.

     But we walk for an hour, another, and the camp isn't there.

• mut, vaa

• odnako (“however”)

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 343

no

1. no

   No, ille non travalia hodie. ― No, he is not working today.

no (plural nos)

1. no

   Illa time audir un no. ― She is afraid of hearing no.

Inherited from Latin nōn.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔ/^*

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• Rhymes: -ɔ
• Hyphenation: nò

no

1. no

   Antonym: sì

   dire di no ― to say no

no

1. not

   Vieni o no? ― Are you coming or not?

   Perché no? ― Why not?

2. (by ellipsis) Used to replace negated nouns or adjectives; non-, not

   Synonym: meno

   cattolici e no ― Catholics and non-Catholics

   prodotti nuovi e no ― new and not new products

3. Used at the end of a sentence as a sort of tag question or to emphasize a statement; isn't it so, right

   Synonyms: nevvero, neh

   Te l'ho già detto, no? ― I already told you, right?

• non

Borrowed from Japanese 能 (nō, literally “[performing] skill, talent”).

• nō

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔ/^**

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• Rhymes: -ɔ
• Hyphenation: nò
• Unlike the above word, this word may or may not trigger syntactic gemination in the following word.

no m (invariable)

1. Noh (a type of Japanese drama)

Borrowed from English no.

• IPA^(key): /no/^°
• Rhymes: -o
• Hyphenation: no
• Unlike the above words, this word is unstressed and never triggers syntactic gemination in the following word.

no (invariable)

1. no, anti-; found in numerous expressions borrowed from English, such as no comment, and in pseudo-anglicisms such as no logo (“anti-globalization”) and no-vax (“anti-vax”) (also written no vax)

Derived from English no.

• IPA^(key): /no/

no

1. Im av no sta.

   He has no sister.

2. not

   No fi waant a tong mek kau no taak.

   Not for want of a tongue that a cow does not talk.

no

1. don't, doesn't

   Mi no nuo.

   I don't know.

   Bot dat no pruuv se wa mi a du rait.

   But that doesn't prove that what I am doing is right.

• no at majstro.com

no

1. The hiragana syllable の (no) or the katakana syllable ノ (no) in Hepburn romanization.

Inherited from Sanskrit नव (nava).

no

1. nine; 9

• IPA^(key): /ˈno/ [ˈno]
• Hyphenation: no

no

1. alternative spelling of nala
2. alternative spelling of nalu
3. alternative spelling of nayu

no

1. indicates emphasis

   Kuwanan kuno.

   I should now take them.

   Kanan kuno...

   I'm gonna eat these now...

2. indicates confirmation and clarification in a question, depending on intonation

   Synonyms: na, ne

   Menanu no?

   What is it now?

   Kayan muno?

   You sure you're gonna do it?

• IPA^(key): /nɔ/

no

1. (it is) only^[1]

   Gĩkũrũ kĩega no kĩratina.^[2] - The only good old thing is a sausage tree fruit (for fermenting muratina).

   Mũndũ ũtathiaga oigaga no nyina ũrugaga wega. - One who does not travel says only his/her mother's cooking is good.

no

1. but^[3]

   Mĩano ndĩtukanagio no kanua. - The diviner's gourds do not get confused, but a mouth does.^[4]

Inherited from Latin nōn.

no

1. not
2. no

• non

Inherited from Old Spanish no, non (“not”), from Latin nōn (compare Catalan no, Galician non, French non, Italian no, Portuguese não, Romanian nu, Sicilian no, nun, & Spanish no).

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no (Hebrew spelling נו)

1. not
   • 2018 February 7, Dora Niyego, “El Antisemitizmo De Oy”, in Şalom‎^[9]:

     Kritikar Israel no es el antisemitizmo.

     Criticizing Israel is not antisemitism.

no (Hebrew spelling נו)

1. (nope)

   Antonym: si

   • 1988, Miriam Raymond, edited by Matilda Koén-Sarano, De Saragosa a Yerushaláyim: kuentos sefaradís‎^[10], Zaragoza: Ibercaja, published 1995, →ISBN, page 67:

     No, sinyor bakal, esto kosta sólo siete!

     No, mister shopkeeper, this costs only seven!

• “no”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola [Treasure of the Judeo-Spanish Language] (in Ladino, Hebrew, and English), Instituto Maale Adumim

Derived from Proto-Italic *snāō, from Proto-Indo-European Proto-Indo-European *(s)néh₂ti, from *(s)neh₂- (“to flow, to swim”). Cognate with Ancient Greek νάω (náō).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnɔː]

nō (present infinitive nāre, perfect active nāvī); first conjugation, no passive, no supine stem

1. (intransitive) to swim

   Nat lupus inter oves. ― The wolf swims between the sheep.

   Nare contra aquam ― To swim against the stream

   Piger ad nandum ― Slow at swimming

   Ars nandi ― The art of swimming

   • 1st century BC, Lucretius, De rerum natura iii. 479.

     Cum vini vis penetravit,
     Consequitur gravitas membrorum, præpediuntur
     Crura vacillanti, tardescit lingua, madet mens,
     Nant oculi, clamor, sigultis, jurgia gliscunt. --

     When once the force of wine hath inly pierst,
     Limbes-heavinesse is next, legs faine would goe,
     But reeling cannot, tongue drawles, mindes disperst,
     Eyes swime, ciries, hickups, brables grow.

2. (intransitive) to float

   Synonym: fluitō

   Carinae nant freto. ― Ships float in the sea.

3. (poetic, intransitive) to sail, flow, fly, etc.

   Per medium classi barbara navit Athon. ― The barbarian youth sailed its fleet through the middle of Athos.

   Undae nantes refulgent. ― The flowing waves glitter.

• no in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• no in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

no

1. from

   skaitīt no viens līdz desmit ― to count from one to ten

   viņš ir no Latvijas ― he is from Latvia

2. out of

   iziet no istabas ― to go out of the room

3. for
4. of

   viens no viņa draugiem ― one of his friends

   izgatavots no koka ― made of wood

5. with

   no sirds ― with all one's heart

no

1. alternative spelling of nò

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Probably from French "nous" or a clipping of Louisiana Creole "nouzòt" and/or French "nous autres".”)

• IPA^(key): /no/
• Rhymes: -o
• Homophone: nô

no

1. alternative form of nouzòt (“we, us”)

Inherited from Middle High German nāh, from Old High German nāh, from Proto-West Germanic *nāhw, from Proto-Germanic *nēhw.

• IPA^(key): /noː/
  • Rhymes: -oː

no (+ dative)

1. after (in time)
2. after (in a sequence)
3. after (the further side of, past)
4. according to
5. to, towards (a direction)

• no an no

no (masculine noen, neuter not, comparative méi no, superlative am nächsten)

1. nearby, near, nigh
2. close, closely related

nō

1. alternative form of noch

• “no (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “no (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

• IPA^(key): /nɔː/
• (early) IPA^(key): /nɑː/

Inherited from Old English nā, nō (“adj”).

• na

no

1. no

• English: no
• Yola: na, nae, no

• “nō, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Inherited from Old English nā, nō.

• na

no

1. not

• English: no
• Scots: nae
• Yola: no, na

• “nō, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Inherited from Middle High German nāch, from Old High German nāh. Cognate with Cimbrian nå and German nach; see there for more.

no

1. (+ dative) after

• nomitto

• “no” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

• IPA^(key): /ˈno/, [ˈnõ]

no

1. wave

Inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *na-ŋ (“you”).

no

1. You (singular)

NOM	no
ACC	nom
DAT	nokégébé
ABL	nokélo
GEN	noké
COM	nolékobé

• nå, nu

no

1. (obsolete) now (this very moment)

Part of the "Nazi reform" of 1941, made during Norwegian occupation by Germany. Almost exclusively used in texts made under occupation, and not generally considered a part of the official Bokmål chronology.

• nu, nå (dialectal)

Inherited from Old Norse núna, derived from nú.

(interjection): May be related to Finno-Ugric, like Finnish and Estonian no, Ingrian no, Komi-Zyrian но (no), Udmurt но (no). Compare also Swedish nå, Latvian nu and Russian ну (nu).

• IPA^(key): /nuː/

no n (definite singular noet, indefinite plural no, definite plural noa)

1. moment; point in time

no

1. now

• noverande

no

1. used when finding something out; when being irritated
   • 1861, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Ferdaminni fraa Sumaren 1860:

     Der maa no vera nokot smaatt fint Gras imillom, som Femulen finner, for ellers kunde der ikki bu annat Liv enn Reinsdyret.

     There must be some small fine grass in between for the cattle to find, otherwise no other life than the reindeer could live there.

   • 1851, Ludvig Mathias Lindeman, Liti Kjersti og bergekongen (transcription of an oral song):

     Gakk no deg i Stova inn

     Go (you) inside the house

   • Det kan no faen ikkje stemme at traktor'n var så billeg

     It can't be damn right that the tractor was so cheap

   • Er det no sånn at dåkk vil ikkje bli med på fjellturen?

     Is it so, that ya'll don't want to join on the mountain trip?

   • Eg skulle no vore på elgjakta no, men i staden for det må eg vera her og rydde.

     I was supposed to be on the moose hunt now, but I must be here and clean up instead.

   • Kom igjen no då!

     C'mon!

   Synonyms: altso, då

• “no” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

no

1. plural marker

• Language Complexity: Typology, Contact, Change, edited by Matti Miestamo, Kaius Sinnemäki, Fred Karlsson

ne +‎ ā

• IPA^(key): /noː/

nō

1. alternative form of nā

• eno, ẽno

no

1. contraction of en o
   • 1291, E. Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 79:

     et disso que despenderan en tres ueces que fora a San Cibrao a pinnorar a balea et a entregala ccc mor. et disso que ennas pinnaças et no trager da balea metera c mor. et quandor foronon o maestreescola et don Pedro Dias a San Cibrao con quinentos ommes et con xxx a caualo por tomar esta balea aos ommes do infante

     And he said that he spent, in three times that he went to San Cibrao to pawn the whale and to deliver it, 300 mor.; and he said that in the pinnaces and in the delivery of the whale he spent 100 mor.; and when the schoolmaster and lord Pedro Dias went to San Cibrao with five hundred peons and 30 mounted men, for seizing the whale from the prince’s men.

• Fala: no
• Galician: no
• Portuguese: no

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “no”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

no

1. alternative spelling of nó

• non

Inherited from Latin non.

no

1. no

   Antonym: oc

• Occitan: non

• non

Inherited from Latin nōn (“not”).

no

1. not
   • 1492, Diego de San Pedro, Cárcel de Amor 151:

     Lo cual yo no niego, pero atrevime a ello pensando que me harías merced no segund quien la pedía, mas segund tú, que la haviés de dar

     I deny this not, but I dared to do it thinking that you would forgive me, not because of who was asking for forgiveness, but because it is proper of you, who had to do it

• Ladino: no, נו
• Spanish: no

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “no”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 358

Inherited from Sanskrit नः (naḥ, “us”).

no

1. accusative/instrumental/genitive/dative plural of ahaṃ (“us”)

Inherited from Sanskrit नो (no, “and not”).

no

1. surely not
2. indeed not

Sometimes reinforced by na (“not”)

• no ce (“unless”)
• noce (“unless”)

Emphatic form of nu (“then, now”)

no

1. indeed, then, now

Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “no”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

Derived from Portuguese não and Spanish no and Kabuverdianu nau.

no

2. not

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔ
• Syllabification: no
• Homophone: -no

Clipping of ano.^[1] Compare Czech no, Silesian no, Slovak no. First attested in the 19th century.^[2]

no

1. (colloquial) yeah, yep

   Synonyms: ano, tak

• nu (Far Masovian)

no

1. used to state the speaker thinks something is obvious and that one should not ponder further; well, well yeah
2. used to state that the speaker thinks everything that can be said has been said and would like to finish the topic
3. (colloquial, hedge) expresses uncertainty; well
4. (usually as a question) used to encourage the conversation partner to give a response; well?
5. (often extended) used to express surprise, awe, or caution
6. (colloquial) Filled pause, usually connecting a previous sentence; well
7. introduces a question, often lightly emotionally charged
8. used to draw attention to the current situation

Clipping of ino, jeno, jedno.^[3] First attested in 1749.^[4] Compare Silesian no.

no

1. emphatic particle used with imperatives to speed up a performed action; c'mon, now

   Synonym: ano

   No, rusz się! Swiatło jest zielone!

   C'mon, move! The light is green!

   • 1841, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, Szkice obyczajowe i historyczne, page 171:

      […] wróciwszy z kluczem na posłanie. — Niech mnie licho porwie, jeśli cię puszczę — musisz zostać z nami. — O! figle! no! no! daj no klucza, rzekł śmiejąc się Alexy, daj no, serce, klucza! daj!

      […] having returned with the key. "Goddamn it, if I let you go, you'll have to stay with us." "Oh! Jokes! Cmon! Cmon! Cmon, give the key!" Alex said laughing. "Cmon, heart, give the key!"

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), no is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 3 times in scientific texts, 0 times in news, 7 times in essays, 106 times in fiction, and 484 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 600 times, making it the 76th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[5]

• no in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• no in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “no”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “no”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• no in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
• Izydor Kopernicki (1875) “no”, in “Spostrzeżenia nad właściwościami językowémi w mowie Górali Bieskidowych z dodatkiem słowniczka wyrazów góralskich”, in Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności (I), volume 3, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 373
• Aleksander Saloni (1908) “no”, in “Lud rzeszowski”, in Materyały Antropologiczno-Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne (in Polish), volume 10, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 342
• Karol Mátyás (1891) “no”, in “Słowniczek gwary ludu zamieszkującego wschodnio-południową najbliższą okolicę Nowego Sącza”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 4, Kraków: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 325

• Hyphenation: no

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese no, clipping of eno, from en (“in”) + o (“the”).

no (feminine na, masculine plural nos, feminine plural nas)

2. contraction of em o (“in the, on the”)
   • 2003, J. K. Rowling, Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix, Rocco, page 546:

     Está na hora de testarmos os nossos talentos no mundo real, você não acha?

     It's time to test our talents in the real world, don't you think?

For quotations using this term, see Citations:no.

no

2. alternative form of o (third-person masculine singular objective pronoun) used as an enclitic following a verb form ending in a nasal vowel or diphthong

   Eles removeram-no do grupo devido a mau comportamento da sua parte.

   They removed him from the group due to bad behavior on his behalf.

   Costumava estar aqui um copo, mas eles partiram-no quando cá estiveram.

   There used to be a glass here, but they broke it when they were here.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:no.

Rohingya cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : no

• 𐴕𐴡 (no) - Hanifi Rohingya script

Derived from Sanskrit नवन् (navan, “nine”).

no (Hanifi spelling 𐴕𐴡)

1. nine

• IPA^(key): /nɔ(ː)/, /no/

no

1. (Transylvania) well, so

• neo, na, nà

Inherited from Old Irish nó, nú, from Proto-Celtic *nowe (compare Welsh neu and Old Breton nou).

• IPA^(key): /na/, /nɔ/^[1][2][3]
• Hyphenation: no

no

1. or
2. nor
3. neither

• air neo, air dheadh, deadh

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *nъ, (Russian но (no), ну (nu)), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *nu (Lithuanian nu), from Proto-Indo-European *nu (“now”), (Latin nun-c, Ancient Greek νῦν (nûn)).

• IPA^(key): /no/

no (Cyrillic spelling но)

1. (after a comparative, regional, dated, expressive) than (=nȅgo, ȍd)

   bolji no on ― better than him

   → (= modern)

   bolji nego on/bolji od njega

   better than him

   Izgledaš bolje no ikad. ― You' re looking better than ever.

   Proračunski manjak Grčke u bio je značajno veći no što je vlada proc(ij)enila. ― Greece's budget deficit was significantly bigger than the government had estimated.

2. (denoting exclusion) but, however

   Pogrešno, no bio si dosta blizu. ― Wrong, but you were pretty close.

   No os(j)ećam samo sreću. ― But I can' t feel anything but happy.

   Tekst nije savršen, no nije li mogao biti bolji? ― The text is not perfect, but could it have been better?

Derived from Japanese 能 (nō).

• IPA^(key): /nôː/

nȏ m animacy unspecified (Cyrillic spelling но̑)

1. (theater) noh

From the conjunction no.

• IPA^(key): /no/

no (Cyrillic spelling но)

1. (in a dialog, when responding to the interlocutor) damn right!, you bet! very much so!

• “no”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
• “no”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
• “no”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

no

1. go

no

1. water

• The Papuan Languages of New Guinea (1986, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔ
• Syllabification: no

Clipping of ano. Compare Polish no.

no

1. used to state the speaker thinks something is obvious and that one should not ponder further; well, well yeah
2. (usually as a question) used to encourage the conversation partner to give a response; well?

Clipping of ino. Compare Polish no.

no

1. emphatic particle used with imperatives to speed up a performed action; c'mon, now

• no in silling.org

Inherited from Old Spanish no, non, from Latin nōn (compare Catalan no, Galician non, French non, Italian no, Portuguese não, Romanian nu, Sicilian no/nun).

• IPA^(key): /ˈno/ [ˈno]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: no

no

1. not

• non (archaic)

¿no?

1. no

   Antonym: sí

2. eh?, right?, isn't it? (used as a tag question, to emphasise what precedes, or to request that the listener express an opinion)

no m (plural noes)

1. no

Contracted form of Latin numero, ablative singular of numerus (“number”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈnumeɾo/ [ˈnu.me.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -umeɾo

no m (plural nos)

1. abbreviation of número; no.

• №, No., no.

• “no”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

From English no. For the sense "(more) than", possibly compare dialectical English nor (“than”).

• IPA^(key): /no/, [nʊ̞], [nɔ̝]

no

1. no
2. not

no

1. Used to construct comparative phrases involving a non-human standard^[1]

   A nyan switi no todo.

   The food is delicious.

   (literally, “The food is tastier than a toad”)

   A waran no hèl.

   It's awfully hot.

   (literally, “It's hotter than hell”)

no (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜓ)

1. alternative spelling of 'no

• on

Inherited from English no.

no

1. not
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 2:5:

     ...i no gat diwai na gras samting i kamap long graun yet, long wanem, em i no salim ren i kam daun yet. Na i no gat man bilong wokim gaden.

     ...and no tree or kind of herb had appeared on the earth yet, because he had not sent rain to come down yet. And there was no one to work the garden.

• nogat

Inherited from Proto-Vietic *ɗɔː (“satiated”). Cognate with Muong Bi đo and Arem dɑː.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [nɔ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [nɔ˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [nɔ˧˧]

no • (奴, 𩛂)

1. full (of the stomach)

   Synonym: no bụng

   Antonym: đói

   Đang no.

   I'm full.

   No bụng rồi.

   My stomach's full.

2. (archaic) full; complete
3. (chemistry, of a solution) saturated
4. (chemistry, of an organic compound) saturated

• In modern usages, no only refers to the stomach being full, or by extension, a person having had enough to eat.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈno/, [ˈno]
• Rhymes: -o
• Hyphenation: no

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Cognate with Finnish no and Ingrian no.

no

1. well

Borrowed from Russian но (no).

no

1. but (when serving to contrast)

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

Inherited from Old French nom, from Latin nōmen (“name”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

• IPA^(key): /nɔ/

no m (plural nos)

1. name

no

1. now

• notiid

• “no”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

no

1. eh, isn't it, true (at end of declarative sentence, forms question to prompt listener's agreement)

• “no”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

• IPA^(key): /nɒ˧/

Inherited from Proto-Hmong-Mien *ʔnu̯ɔmH (“cold”).^[1]

no

1. (of weather) cold

   No no li. ― It's cold.

Inherited from Proto-Hmong-Mien *ʔneinX (“this”).^[1]

no

1. an indicator of current or present location: this (place, time, person, thing)

   lub tsev no ― this house

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[11], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 141.

Inherited from Middle English no, na, from Old English nā.

• na

• IPA^(key): /nɔː/, /naː/

no

1. not
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY ^[1]:

     Aamezil cou no stoane.

     Themselves could not stand.

   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 14, page 90:

     Outh o'mee hoane ch'ull no part wi' Wathere.

     Out of my hand I'll not part with Walter.

   • 1867, “SONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 108:

     Hea had no much wut,

     He had not much wit,

• canna
• dinna

no

1. alternative form of na
   • 1927, “ZONG O DHREE YOLA MYTHENS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, line 3 ^[2]:

     Vo no own caars.

     Whom no one cares.