جو

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒaww/
  • (Hijazi) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒaww/
  • (Moroccan) IPA^(key): /ʒaww/

جَوّ • (jaww) m (dual جَوَّانِ (jawwāni), plural أَجْوَاء (ʔajwāʔ) or جِوَاء (jiwāʔ))

1. air (the apparently open space above the ground)

   Coordinate terms: بَحْر (baḥr), بَرّ (barr)

2. weather
3. atmosphere
4. (figurative) atmosphere (apparent mood)
5. wide valley
6. open pasture-ground
7. interior of a house

   Antonym: بَرّ (barr)

8. hall

• جَوِّيّ (jawwiyy)
• جَوَّانِيّ (jawwāniyy)
• جَوّ الْيَمَامَة (jaww al-yamāma, “Al-Yamama (ancient district in Saudi Arabia)”)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “جو”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen

جو • (joho)

1. barley

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (Šᵍ /⁠jaw⁠/), from Old Persian *yáwaʰ, from Proto-Iranian *yáwah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *yáwas.

Readings
Classical reading?	jaw
Dari reading?	jaw
Iranian reading?	jow
Tajik reading?	jav

Dari	جو
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ҷав

جو • (jow)

1. barley
2. grain

From Middle Persian [script needed] (joi) or Middle Persian [script needed] (yoi), from Old Persian [script needed] (yauviya). Cognate with Northern Kurdish co and Sanskrit यव्या (yavyā).

• جوی (juy)
• جوغ (juğ) (dialectal, Isfahan, southwestern Fars)
• جوق (juq) (dialectal, Abadan)

Readings
Classical reading?	jō
Dari reading?	jō
Iranian reading?	ju
Tajik reading?	jü

Dari	جو, جوی
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ҷӯ, ҷӯй

جو • (ju)

1. stream
2. brook
3. irrigation channel

From Arabic جَوّ (jaww, “weather, environment”).

Readings
Classical reading?	jaww
Dari reading?	jaww
Iranian reading?	javv
Tajik reading?	javv

جو • (javv)

1. air
2. sky
3. atmosphere

Readings
Classical reading?	jō, jū
Dari reading?	jō, jū
Iranian reading?	ju
Tajik reading?	jü, ju

جو • (ju)

1. present stem form of جستن (jostan), suffixed form indicating "seeker"/"seeking"

• جنگجو (jangju)
• دانشجو (dânešju)

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

• IPA^(key): [d͡ʑo]

جو • (jo) (Devanagari जो)

1. of; genitive case marker

• Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “جو”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
• Khānu, Balocu (1960–1988) “جو”, in Jāmiʻ Sindhī lughāta (in Sindhi), Hyderabad, Sindh: Sindhī Adabī Borḍ

Root
ج و و
2 terms

From Arabic جَوّ (jaww).

• IPA^(key): /ʒaww/, [ʒaw]

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جوّ • (jaww) m (plural أجواء (ʔajwāʔ))

1. air

   Synonym: هوا (hawa)

2. atmosphere
3. weather

   Synonym: طقس (ṭaʔs)

• IPA^(key): [ˈd͡ʒoː]

جو (Rumi joo)

1. a shortening of جوو (“joou”)

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀚𑁄 (jo), from Sanskrit यः (yáḥ), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *Hyás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hyás, from Proto-Indo-European *Hyós.^[1]

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒoː/
• Rhymes: -oː
• Hyphenation: جو

جو • (jo) m or f by sense (Hindi spelling जो)

1. the relative pronoun:
   1. who; whoever
   2. whichever
   3. whatever

• “جو”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “جو”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “جو”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “جو”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “جو”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “جو”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.