"WHO" meaning in English

See WHO in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /ˈdʌbəljuː ˈeɪt͡ʃ ˈəʊ/ Forms: WHO [canonical], the WHO [canonical], W.H.O. [alternative], W. H. O. [alternative]
Head templates: {{en-prop|def=~}} WHO or the WHO
  1. Initialism of World Health Organization. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: World Health Organization Categories (topical): United Nations Related terms: WHA Translations (World Health Organization): مُنَظَّمَةُ الصِّحَةِ الْعَالَمِيَّة (munaẓẓamatu ṣ-ṣiḥati l-ʕālamiyya) [feminine] (Arabic), MOE (Basque), OMS [feminine] (Catalan), 世衛組織 /世卫组织 (sai³ wai⁶ zou² zik¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 世衛 /世卫 (sai³ wai⁶) (Chinese Cantonese), WHO (Chinese Mandarin), 世衛組織 /世卫组织 (Shìwèi Zǔzhī) (Chinese Mandarin), 世衛 /世卫 (Shìwèi) (Chinese Mandarin), WHO (Finnish), OMS (French), OMS [feminine] (Galician), ΠΟΥ (POY) [masculine] (Greek), WHO (Hungarian), OMS (Italian), СЗО (SZO) (Macedonian), ДЭМБ (DEMB) (Mongolian), БДЭХБ (BDEXB) (Mongolian), ДЭХБ (DEXB) (Mongolian), Rêxistina Tenduristiya Cîhanê [feminine] (Northern Kurdish), RTC [feminine] (Northern Kurdish), WHO [feminine, neuter] (Polish), ŚOZ [feminine] (Polish), OMS [feminine] (Portuguese), ВОЗ (VOZ) [feminine] (Russian), OMS (Spanish), WHO (Swedish), DSÖ (Turkish), TCYTTG (Vietnamese)

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (ada610d and ea19a0a). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.