vowel

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from Old French vouel (French voyelle), from Latin vōcālis (“voiced”).

PronunciationEdit

• enPR: vouʹəl, IPA^(key): /ˈvaʊ.əl̩/
• (US) also enPR: voul, IPA^(key): /vaʊ.l̩/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -aʊəl, -aʊl

NounEdit

vowel (plural vowels)

1. (phonetics) A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.
2. (orthography) A letter representing the sound of vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o and u, and sometimes y.

AntonymsEdit

• (sound): consonant
• (letter): consonant

Related termsEdit

• consonant
• liquid
• semivowel
• vowel lowering

TranslationsEdit

sound

• Afrikaans: klinker (af), vokaal (af)
• Albanian: zanore (sq) f
• Arabic: مُصَوَّت‏‎ m (muṣawwat)
• Aragonese: vocal f
• Armenian: ձայնավոր (hy) (jaynavor)
• Asturian: vocal f
• Azeri: sait
• Basque: bokal
• Belarusian: гало́сны m (halósny)
• Bengali: স্বর (sbôr)
• Bulgarian: гла́сна (bg) f (glásna)
• Burmese: သရ (my) (sa.ra.)
• Catalan: vocal (ca) f
• Chechen: мукъаме (muq̇ame)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 母音 (zh) (mǔyīn), 元音 (zh) (yuányīn)

• Czech: samohláska (cs) f
• Danish: vokal c, selvlyd (rare)
• Dutch: klinker (nl) m, klinkerklank m
• Esperanto: vokalo
• Estonian: täishäälik, vokaal (et)
• Faroese: sjálvljóð n
• Finnish: vokaali (fi)
• French: voyelle (fr) f
• Galician: vogal (gl) f
• Georgian: ხმოვანი (xmovani)
• German: Selbstlaut (de) m, Vokal (de) m, Vokallaut m
• Greek:

  Ancient: φωνήεντα (γράμματα) n pl (phōnḗenta (grámmata))

  Modern: φωνήεν (el) n (foníen)

• Haitian Creole: vwayèl
• Hausa: wasali
• Hebrew: תְּנוּעָה‏‎ (he) f (tnu‘á)
• Hindi: स्वर (hi) m (svar), सुर (hi) m (sur)
• Hungarian: magánhangzó (hu)
• Icelandic: sérhljóð (is) n
• Indonesian: vokal (id)
• Irish: guta m
• Italian: vocale (it) f
• Japanese: 母音 (ja) (ぼいん, boin)
• Kalmyk: эгшг (egşg)
• Kazakh: дауысты (kk) (dawıstı)

• Khmer: ស្រៈ (km) (sraʔ), ស្វរៈ (km) (svaʔraʔ)
• Korean: 모음 (ko) (mo-eum) (母音 (ko))
• Kyrgyz: үндүү (ky) (ündüü)
• Lao: ສະຫລະ (sa la)
• Latvian: patskanis m, vokālis m
• Lithuanian: balsis (lt)
• Macedonian: само́гласка f (samóglaska)
• Malay: bunyi hidup, vokal
• Maori: oro puare
• Mongolian: эгшиг (mn) (egšig)
• Navajo: zaʼáán
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vokal (no) m

• Occitan: vocala (oc) f
• Persian: واکه‏‎ (fa) (vâke)
• Polish: samogłoska (pl) f
• Portuguese: vogal (pt) f
• Romanian: vocală (ro) f
• Russian: гла́сный (ru) m (glásnyj)
• Sanskrit: स्वर (sa) m (svara)
• Scottish Gaelic: fuaimreag f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: самоглас m, са̏могласнӣк m, во̀ка̄л m

  Roman: samoglas m, sȁmoglasnīk (sh) m, vòkāl (sh) m

• Slovak: samohláska f
• Slovene: samoglasnik (sl) m
• Southern Altai: ӱндӱ (ündü)
• Spanish: vocal (es) f
• Swedish: vokal (sv) c, vokalljud n, självljud (sv) n (archaic)
• Tajik: садонок (sadonok)
• Telugu: అచ్చు (te) (accu)
• Thai: สระ (th) (sà)
• Turkish: ünlü (tr), sesli (tr)
• Turkmen: çekimli
• Ukrainian: голосни́й m (holosnýj)
• Urdu: مصوت‏‎ (musavvat)
• Uzbek: unli (uz)
• Vietnamese: nguyên âm (vi), mẫu âm (vi)
• Volapük: vokat (vo)
• Walloon: voyale (wa) f
• Yiddish: וואָקאַל‏‎ (vokal)

letter

• Afrikaans: klinker (af), vokaal (af)
• Arabic: حَرَكَة‏‎ f (ḥaraka) (vowel sign)
• Aragonese: vocal f
• Armenian: ձայնավոր (hy) (jaynavor)
• Asturian: vocal f
• Basque: bokal
• Bulgarian: гла́сна (bg) f (glásna)
• Catalan: vocal (ca) f
• Central Dusun: vokal
• Chechen: мукъаме (muq̇ame)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 母音 (zh) (mǔyīn), 元音 (zh) (yuányīn)

• Czech: samohláska (cs) f
• Danish: vokal c
• Dutch: klinker (nl) m
• Faroese: sjálvljóð n
• Finnish: vokaali (fi)
• French: voyelle (fr) f
• Galician: vogal (gl) f, letra vogal f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Selbstlaut (de) m, Vokal (de) m
• Greek: φωνήεν (el) n (foníen)
• Hungarian: magánhangzó (hu)
• Icelandic: sérhljóði m
• Indonesian: vokal (id)
• Irish: guta m
• Italian: vocale (it) f
• Japanese: 母音 (ja) (ぼいん, boin), 母音字 (ja) (ぼいんじ, boinji)
• Korean: 모음 (ko) (mo-eum) (母音 (ko))

• Lao: ສະຫລະ (sa la)
• Latvian: patskanis m, vokālis m
• Macedonian: само́гласка f (samóglaska)
• Malagasy: zanatsoratra (mg)
• Malay: huruf hidup, vokal
• Maori: oro puare
• Mongolian: эгшиг үсэг (egšig üseg)
• Occitan: vocala (oc) f
• Persian: واکه‏‎ (fa)
• Polish: samogłoska (pl) f
• Portuguese: vogal (pt) f
• Romanian: vocală (ro) f
• Russian: гла́сная f (glásnaja)
• Sanskrit: स्वर (sa) m (svara)
• Scots: vouel
• Scottish Gaelic: fuaimreag f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: самоглас m, са̏могласнӣк m

  Roman: samoglas m, sȁmoglasnīk (sh) m

• Slovak: samohláska f
• Spanish: vocal (es) f, letra vocal f
• Swedish: vokal (sv) c
• Tamil: உயிரெழுத்து (ta) (uyireḻuttu)
• Telugu: అచ్చు (te) (accu)
• Thai: เสียงสระ, สระ (th) (sà)
• Turkish: ünlü (tr)
• Volapük: vokat (vo), vokatatonat
• Walloon: voyale (wa) f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Guaraní: ^{(please verify)} pu'ae
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} huruf hidup (id), ^{(please verify)} huruf vokal (id)

• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} vocal

AnagramsEdit

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