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Oi / ɔɪ / is an interjection used in various varieties of the English language, particularly Australian English, British English, Indian English, Irish English, New Zealand English, and South African English, as well as non-English languages such as Chinese, Tagalog, Tamil, Hindi/Urdu, Italian, Japanese, and Portuguese to get the attention of another person or to express surprise or disapproval.
Interjection. An interjection is a word or expression that occurs as an utterance on its own and expresses a spontaneous feeling or reaction. [ 1][ 2] It is a diverse category, encompassing many different parts of speech, such as exclamations (ouch!, wow! ), curses ( damn! ), greetings ( hey, bye ), response particles ( okay, oh!, m-hm, huh ...
Other suffixes include –ak, –hana, –ija, –suz and –uk. Persian –dār is also a common suffix. Many Serbo-Croatian words that are not of Turkish, Arabic or Persian origin have adopted these suffixes (e.g. kamiondžija, bezobrazluk, lopovluk ), showing that influence of Turkish onto Serbo-Croatian extends past loanwords, into ...
Vocative case. In grammar, the vocative case ( abbreviated VOC) is a grammatical case which is used for a noun that identifies a person (animal, object, etc.) being addressed or occasionally for the noun modifiers ( determiners, adjectives, participles, and numerals) of that noun. A vocative expression is an expression of direct address by ...
Behenchod (बहनचोद, بہنچود; English: Sisterfucker), also pronounced as behanchod is sometimes abbreviated as BC, is a Hindustani language vulgarism. It is a form of the profanity fuck. The word is considered highly offensive, and is rarely used in literal sense of one who engages in sexual activity with another person's sister ...
Amen. Amen ( Hebrew: אָמֵן, ʾāmēn; Ancient Greek: ἀμήν, amḗn; Classical Syriac: ܐܡܝܢ, 'amīn; [ 1] Arabic: آمين, ʾāmīn) is an Abrahamic declaration of affirmation [ 2] which is first found in the Hebrew Bible, and subsequently found in the New Testament. [ 3] It is used in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim practices as a ...
An ideophone is any word in a certain word class evoking ideas in sound imitation ( onomatopoeia) to express an action, manner, or property. The class of ideophones is the least common syntactic category cross-linguistically; it occurs mostly in African, Australian, and Amerindian languages, and sporadically elsewhere.
Hindustani, also known as Hindi-Urdu, like all Indo-Aryan languages, has a core base of Sanskrit -derived vocabulary, which it gained through Prakrit. [ 1] As such the standardized registers of the Hindustani language (Hindi-Urdu) share a common vocabulary, especially on the colloquial level. [ 2] However, in formal contexts, Modern Standard ...