WHO

See also: W. H. O., W.H.O., and who

English

Alternative forms

• W.H.O., W. H. O.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʌbəljuː ˈeɪt͡ʃ ˈəʊ/

Proper noun

WHO or the WHO

1. Initialism of World Health Organization.
   • 2024 December 23, Maggie Fick and Ahmed Aboulenein, “Trump transition team plans immediate WHO withdrawal, expert says”, in Reuters‎:

     Trump initiated the year-long withdrawal process from the WHO in 2020 but six months later his successor, President Joe Biden, reversed the decision.

Descendants

• → Hungarian: WHO
• → Japanese: WHO (WHO)
• → Swedish: WHO

Translations

World Health Organization

Albanian: OBSH Arabic: مُنَظَّمَةُ الصِّحَةِ الْعَالَمِيَّة f (munaẓẓamatu ṣ-ṣiḥati l-ʕālamiyya) Basque: MOE Catalan: OMS f Chinese: Cantonese: 世衛組織 / 世卫组织 (sai3 wai6 zou2 zik1), 世衛 / 世卫 (sai3 wai6) Mandarin: WHO (zh), 世衛組織 / 世卫组织 (zh) (Shìwèi Zǔzhī), 世衛 / 世卫 (zh) (Shìwèi) Finnish: WHO (fi) French: OMS (fr) Galician: OMS (gl) f Greek: ΠΟΥ (el) m (POY) Hungarian: WHO (hu) Italian: OMS (it) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: Rêxistina Tenduristiya Cîhanê f, RTC f Macedonian: СЗО (SZO) Mongolian: ДЭМБ (DEMB), БДЭХБ (BDEXB), ДЭХБ (DEXB) Polish: WHO (pl) n or f, ŚOZ (pl) f Portuguese: OMS (pt) f Russian: ВОЗ (ru) f (VOZ) Spanish: OMS (es) Swedish: WHO (sv) Turkish: DSÖ (tr) Vietnamese: TCYTTG (vi)

See also

• WHA

Further reading

• World Health Organization on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• WHO on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• How, how

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

WHO

1. abbreviation of Wereldgezondheidsorganisatie (“World Health Organization”): WHO

Hungarian

Etymology

From English WHO, initialism of World Health Organization.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈveːɦaːoː] (phonetic respelling: véháó)
• Hyphenation: WHO
• Rhymes: -oː

Proper noun

WHO

1. WHO (World Health Organization)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	WHO	—
accusative	WHO-t	—
dative	WHO-nak	—
instrumental	WHO-val	—
causal-final	WHO-ért	—
translative	WHO-vá	—
terminative	WHO-ig	—
essive-formal	WHO-ként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	WHO-ban	—
superessive	WHO-n	—
adessive	WHO-nál	—
illative	WHO-ba	—
sublative	WHO-ra	—
allative	WHO-hoz	—
elative	WHO-ból	—
delative	WHO-ról	—
ablative	WHO-tól	—
non-attributive possessive – singular	WHO-é	—
non-attributive possessive – plural	WHO-éi	—

Possessive forms of WHO

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	WHO-m	—
2nd person sing.	WHO-d	—
3rd person sing.	WHO-ja	—
1st person plural	WHO-nk	—
2nd person plural	WHO-tok	—
3rd person plural	WHO-juk	—

Derived terms

• WHO-s

Japanese

Etymology

From English WHO.

Proper noun

WHO(ダブリューエッチオー) • (Daburyū-Etchi-Ō) 

1. synonym of 世界保健機関 (Sekai Hoken Kikan, “World Health Organization”); the WHO

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

Världshälsoorganisationen

Wikipedia ^sv

Etymology

From English WHO.

Proper noun

WHO ? (genitive WHO:s)

1. synonym of Världshälsoorganisationen; the WHO