English

Etymology

• Who < Middle English whō < Old English hwā < Proto-Germanic *khwas / *khwes / *khwo < Proto-Indo-European *qwos / *qwes .
• Whom < Middle English whōm < Old English hwām (dative of hwā ).
• Whose < Middle English whōs < Old English hwæs (genitive of hwā ).

Pronoun

who (singular or plural, nominative case) Possessive: whose. Objective case: whom. (Note that who is often used instead of whom, especially in informal writing or conversation.)

1. (interrogative pronoun) What person or people; which person or people (used in a direct or indirect question).

   Who is that? (direct question)

   I don't know who it is. (indirect question)

2. (relative pronoun) The person or people that.

   It was a nice man who helped us.

Noun

WHO World Health Organisation. Pronounced as initials (W.H.O.), not as an acronym ('who')

Translations

• Arabic: مَنْ (man) (1); اَلَّذِي (allaðíː) m, اَلَّتِي (allatíː) f, اَلَّذِينَ (allaðíːna) m/pl, اَلَّلوَاتِي (allawáːti) f/pl (2)
• Balinese: nyen (1)
• Blackfoot: tahkaa (1)
• Chinese: 誰, 谁 (shuí) (1)
• Cree: awina (1)
• Czech: kdo (1)
• Dutch: wie (1); die (2)
• Esperanto: kiu
• Filipino: sino (1)
• Finnish: kuka (1); joka (2)
• French: qui
• German: wer (1); der/die/das (2)
• Hebrew: מי (mi) (1); אשר (ašer) (2)
• Hungarian: ki, kik pl (1); aki , akik pl (2)
• Ido: qua, qui (plural)
• Indonesian: siapa (1); yang (2)
• Irish: cé (1)
• Italian: chi
• Japanese: 誰 (だれ , dáre), どなた (dónata), どちらさま (dóchira sama) (1)
• Korean: 누구 (nugu) (1)
• Kurdish: kî , kê
• Latin: quis m/f (1); qui m, quae f (2)
• Norwegian: hvem
• Ojibwe: awenen (1)
• Persian: كی (ki)
• Polish: kto (1)
• Portuguese: quem
• Russian: кто (kto) (1); что (što), который / которая / которое / которые (kotóryj / kotóraja / kotóroje / kotóryje) m/f/n/pl (2)
• Slovak: kto (1); čo (2), ktorý / ktorá / ktoré m/f/n (2)
• Spanish: quién (1); quien (2)
• Swedish: vem
• Thai: ใคร (khrai) (1); ที่ (thèè) (2)

  སུ་ (su)

• Ukrainian: хто (khto) (1)