okolo

See also: około, ôkoło, około-, and òkòło

Czech

Etymology

    Inherited from Old Czech okolo.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): [ˈokolo]
    • Audio:(file)

    Preposition

    okolo [with genitive]

    1. around
      Šel okolo našeho domu.He went around our house.

    Adverb

    okolo

    1. around
      Šel jenom tak okolo.He just only went around.
    adjective

    Further reading

    Serbo-Croatian

    Etymology

    Inherited from Proto-Slavic *okolo.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ôkolo/
    • Hyphenation: o‧ko‧lo

    Adverb

    ȍkolo (Cyrillic spelling о̏коло)

    1. around

    Preposition

    ȍkolo (Cyrillic spelling о̏коло) [with genitive]

    1. around
      okolo kućearound the house

    Further reading

    • okolo”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
    • okolo”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

    Slovak

    Etymology

    Inherited from Proto-Slavic *okolo.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ɔkɔlɔ/, [ˈɔkɔlɔ]
    • Rhymes: -ɔlɔ
    • Hyphenation: o‧ko‧lo

    Preposition

    okolo [with genitive]

    1. around
    2. in the neighborhood of
      Okolo Súče vodička tečie.In the neighborhood of Súča water flows.

    Further reading

    • okolo”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026