LingoflyՕ օ
«օ» is a vowel of the Armenian script, read as “o (plain, never vo)”. A plain o, with no v. For example, in the word “Օր” (or) — day. The Armenian alphabet has 39 letters in total, and this character can be played right here. That is what separates it from ո: օ is never read vo. It appears, for example, in the word “Բարի օր” (bari or) — good afternoon.
In short
| Character | Օ օ |
| Sound | o (plain, never vo) |
| What it is | a vowel |
In our course the character comes 17th of 40: the order here is not alphabetical but from familiar to unfamiliar, its neighbours in the course are ը and մ, appears in 77 words of this site.
How to type Օ օ
- On a phone: add the Armenian keyboard in the keyboard settings (Gboard on Android; Keyboards in the iPhone settings).
- In Word on Windows: type U+0585 and press Alt+X right after it — the code turns into the character.
- On a Mac: switch to the Unicode Hex Input source, hold Option and type 0585.
- Unicode code points: օ — U+0585, Օ — U+0555. With them, the characters can be found in the character map of any system.
How it sounds
A plain o, with no v
The character in a word
A lone character is hard to remember: memory holds on to meaning, and a letter has none. The word it stands in provides that anchor.
The character in the “vowels” group
Eight signs. Two of them — ե and ո — are read with a y-glide and a v at the start of a word. Ես (yes) reads 'yes', Ոչ (voch) reads 'voch'. And ը is a fleeting murmur that in writing is often not written at all.
Words with this character
How to remember this character
A single letter is the hardest thing to remember: memory has nothing to hold on to — a character has no meaning. A three-step loop works: see the character, try to recall the sound (for «օ» it is “o (plain, never vo)”, as in the word “Օր” (or)), see the right answer.
And come back to it the next day, not in an hour: a check a day or two later beats a check the same day. Nobody holds the whole alphabet — 39 letters — at once.
- It is better to test yourself the next day than at the end of the same session. That is why a word comes back to you tomorrow.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · g = 0.82 when tested a day or two later, against 0.56 on the same day.
- Studying a little every day gets more into your head than spending the same total time in one sitting.checked many timesDonovan & Radosevich, 1999, Journal of Applied Psychology 84(5) · 63 studies compared, difference d = 0.46 — a sizeable figure for a learning effect.
Frequently asked
How does the Armenian character օ read?
As “o (plain, never vo)” — it is a vowel of the Armenian script. A plain o, with no v. For example, in the word “Օր” (or) — day.