"Mmmmn ... maybe I'll have a hair of the dog." "Whoa, hold up a mo! Here, I cooked roast fish for this morning. You ought to be able to eat this OK."
Source: tatoeba (326717)
Whoa
//woʊ//
Synonyms for "whoa" (37 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (11)
Related words (18)
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Translations
71 translations across 24 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- قِف intj (stop, said to a horse)
- قِفِي intj (stop, said to a horse)
Catalan
1 entries- xo intj (stop, said to a horse)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 吁 intj (stop, said to a horse)
Esperanto
2 entries- pru intj (stop, said to a horse)
- tpr intj (stop, said to a horse)
Finnish
2 entries- oho intj (expression of surprise)
- ptruu intj (stop, said to a horse)
French
4 entries- ho intj (stop, said to a horse)
- holà intj (stop, said to a horse)
- ouah intj (expression of surprise)
- stop intj (stop, said to a horse)
Galician
2 entries- ou intj (stop, said to a horse)
- xo intj (stop, said to a horse)
German
4 entries- boa intj (expression of surprise)
- boah intj (expression of surprise)
- brr intj (stop, said to a horse)
- eha intj (expression of surprise)
Hindi
3 entries- वाह intj (stop, said to a horse)
- वाह intj (slow down)
- वाह intj (expression of surprise)
Hungarian
1 entries- hó intj (stop, said to a horse)
Ingrian
1 entries- tprr intj (stop, said to a horse)
Japanese
2 entries- どう intj (stop, said to a horse)
- どうどう intj (stop, said to a horse)
Latin
1 entries- ōhē intj (stop, said to a horse)
Malay
3 entries- hoi intj (stop, said to a horse)
- hoi intj (slow down)
- hoi intj (expression of surprise)
Māori
1 entries- hika mā! intj (expression of surprise)
Norwegian
1 entries- ptro intj (stop, said to a horse)
Polish
2 entries- prr intj (stop, said to a horse)
- pru intj (stop, said to a horse)
Portuguese
3 entries- alto! intj (stop, said to a horse)
- nossa! intj (expression of surprise)
- ou! intj (stop, said to a horse)
Russian
4 entries- ого intj (expression of surprise)
- пру intj (stop, said to a horse)
- стоп intj (stop, said to a horse)
- тпру intj (stop, said to a horse)
Sicilian
4 entries- bih intj (expression of surprise)
- buì intj (expression of surprise)
- ippì intj (expression of surprise)
- ivì intj (expression of surprise)
Spanish
4 entries- ala intj (expression of surprise)
- ale intj (expression of surprise)
- alá intj (expression of surprise)
- asu intj (expression of surprise)
Swedish
3 entries- oj då intj (expression of surprise)
- ptrr intj (stop, said to a horse)
- sakta i backarna intj (slow down)
Turkish
1 entries- oha intj (expression of surprise)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ого intj (expression of surprise)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
Whoa, if we keep chatting, despite actually arriving early, we'll end up late!
Source: tatoeba (329011)
Whoa! Where did that come from?
Source: tatoeba (698679)
Whoa, Kelly!
Source: tatoeba (2238057)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.