vowel

EnglishEdit

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vowel

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Old French vouel (French voyelle), from Latin vōcālis (“voiced”), a semantic loan of Koine Greek φωνῆεν (phōnêen). Doublet of vocal.

PronunciationEdit

enPR: vouʹəl, IPA^(key): /ˈvaʊ.əl/
(also) enPR: voul, IPA^(key): /vaʊl/
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Rhymes: -aʊəl, -aʊl

NounEdit

vowel (plural vowels)

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

AntonymsEdit

(sound): consonant
(letter): consonant

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from vowel

Related termsEdit

See alsoEdit

vocalization

Placing of an element:

prevocalic (occurring before a vowel)
intervocalic (occurring between vowels)
postvocalic (occurring after a vowel)

Types of vowels (phonetics):

front, central, back
rounded, unrounded
close, near-close, close-mid, mid, open-mid, near-open, open

TranslationsEdit

sound

Afrikaans: klinker (af), vokaal (af)
Albanian: zanore (sq) f
Arabic: صَوْت مُتَحَرِّك‎ m (ṣawt mutaḥarrik), مُصَوَّت‎ m (muṣawwat), صَوْت مَدّ‎ m (ṣawt madd)
Aragonese: vocal f
Armenian: ձայնավոր (hy) (jaynavor)
Asturian: vocal f
Azerbaijani: sait
Bashkir: һуҙынҡы (huðïnqï)
Basque: bokal
Belarusian: гало́сны m (halósny)
Bengali: স্বর (sôr)
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 (da) 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: Vokal (de) m; (specifying sound vs. letter) Vokallaut m; (chiefly elementary school) Selbstlaut (de) 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 (ga) m
Italian: vocale (it) f
Japanese: 母音 (ja) (ぼいん, boin)
Kalmyk: эгшг (egşg)
Kazakh: дауысты (kk) (dawıstı)
Khmer: ស្រៈ (km) (sraʾ), ស្វរៈ (km) (svaʾraʾ)

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
Punjabi: ਸਵਰ m (savr)
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
Welsh: llafariad (cy) f
Yiddish: וואָקאַל‎ (vokal)
Zulu: unkamisa class 1a/2a

letter

Afrikaans: klinker (af), vokaal (af)
Arabic: حَرَكَة‎ f (ḥaraka) (vowel sign)
Aragonese: vocal f
Armenian: ձայնավոր (hy) (jaynavor)
Asturian: vocal f
Bashkir: һуҙынҡы (huðïnqï)
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 (da) c
Dutch: klinker (nl) m
Faroese: sjálvljóð n
Finnish: vokaali (fi)
French: voyelle (fr) f
Galician: vogal (gl) f, letra vogal f
Georgian: ხმოვანი (xmovani)
German: Vokal (de) m; (specifying letter vs. sound) Vokalbuchstabe m
Greek: φωνήεν (el) n (foníen)
Hungarian: magánhangzó (hu), magánhangzóbetű
Icelandic: sérhljóði m
Indonesian: vokal (id)
Irish: guta (ga) m
Italian: vocale (it) f
Japanese: 母音 (ja) (ぼいん, boin), 母音字 (ja) (ぼいんじ, boinji)
Kapampangan: siwala, siuala

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 (ru) 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
Gujarati: ^{(please verify)} રવર n (ravar)

Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} huruf hidup (id), ^{(please verify)} huruf vokal (id)
Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} vocal

VerbEdit

vowel (third-person singular simple present vowels, present participle vowelling or (US) voweling, simple past and past participle vowelled or (US) voweled)

(linguistics) To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew or harakat in Arabic)

SynonymsEdit

vocalize

AnagramsEdit

wolve