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English
Etymology
From Middle English vouel, from Old French vouel, a variant of voyeul (whence French voyelle), from Latin vōcālis (“voiced”), itself a semantic loan of Koine Greek φωνῆεν (phōnêen). Doublet of vocal.
Pronunciation
Noun
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.
In Welsh, the w usually represents a vowel.
- (orthography) A letter representing the sound of a vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, y.
Facetiously is spelled with all six vowels in alphabetical order.
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sound
- Afrikaans: klinker (af), vokaal (af)
- Albanian: zanore (sq) f
- Arabic: صَائِت m (ṣāʔit), مُصَوِّت m (muṣawwit)
- Aragonese: vocal f
- Armenian: ձայնավոր (hy) (jaynavor)
- Asturian: vocal f
- Azerbaijani: sait
- Bashkir: һуҙынҡы (huźınqı)
- Basque: bokal
- Belarusian: гало́сны (be) m (halósny)
- Bengali: স্বর (bn) (śor)
- Bikol Central: tiyaw
- Bulgarian: гла́сна (bg) f (glásna)
- Burmese: သရ (my) (sa.ra.)
- Catalan: vocal (ca) f
- Chechen: мукъаме (muqʼame)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 母音 (zh) (mǔyīn), 元音 (zh) (yuányīn)
- Corsican: vucale f
- Czech: samohláska (cs) f
- Danish: vokal (da) c, selvlyd (rare)
- Dutch: klinker (nl) m, klinkerklank m
- Esperanto: vokalo
- Estonian: täishäälik (et), 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: φωνήεν (el) n (foníen)
- Ancient: φωνήεντα (γράμματα) n pl (phōnḗenta (grámmata)), φωνῆεν n (phōnêen)
- 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: huruf hidup (id), vokal (id)
- Ingrian: vokala, glasnoi
- Interlingua: vocal
- Irish: guta (ga) m
- Italian: vocale (it) f
- Japanese: 母音 (ja) (ぼいん, boin)
- Kalmyk: эгшг (egşg)
- Kapampangan: kakatni
- Kazakh: дауысты (dauysty)
- Khmer: ស្រៈ (km) (sraʼ), ស្វរៈ (km) (svaʼraʼ)
- Korean: 모음(母音) (ko) (mo'eum)
- Kyrgyz: үндүү (ky) (ündüü)
- Lao: ສະຫລະ (sa la)
- Latin: vōcālis (la) f
- Latvian: patskanis m, vokālis m
- Lithuanian: balsis (lt)
- Macedonian: само́гласка f (samóglaska)
- Malay: bunyi hidup, vokal
- Maori: oro puare
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: эгшиг (mn) (egšig)
- Mongolian: ᠡᠭᠡᠰᠢᠭ (egesig)
- Navajo: zaʼáán
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: vokal (no) m
- Occitan: vocala (oc) f
- Old Norse: hljóðstafr
- Persian: واکه (fa) (vâke)
- Plautdietsch: Metlut m
- Polish: samogłoska (pl) f
- Portuguese: vogal (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਸਵਰ m (savar)
- 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
- Swahili: vokali (sw), irabu (sw)
- Swedish: vokal (sv) c, vokalljud n, självljud (sv) n (archaic)
- Tagalog: patinig
- 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)
- Uyghur: سوزۇق تاۋۇش (sozuq tawush)
- Uzbek: unli (uz)
- Veps: vokal'
- Vietnamese: nguyên âm (vi), mẫu âm (vi)
- Volapük: vokat (vo)
- Walloon: voyale (wa) f
- Welsh: llafariad (cy) f
- Yiddish: וואָקאַל (vokal)
- Yoruba: fáwẹ̀lì
- Zulu: unkamisa class 1a/2a
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- Afrikaans: klinker (af), vokaal (af)
- Arabic: حَرَكَة f (ḥaraka) (short vowel sign), حَرْفُ مَدّ f (ḥarfu madd) (long vowel sign)
- Aragonese: vocal f
- Armenian: ձայնավոր (hy) (jaynavor)
- Asturian: vocal f
- Bashkir: һуҙынҡы (huźınqı)
- Basque: bokal
- Belarusian: гало́сная f (halósnaja)
- Bikol Central: tiyaw
- Bulgarian: гла́сна (bg) f (glásna)
- Catalan: vocal (ca) f
- Central Dusun: vokal
- Chechen: мукъаме (muqʼame)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 母音 (zh) (mǔyīn), 元音 (zh) (yuányīn)
- Corsican: vucale f
- 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)
- Ancient: φωνῆεν n (phōnêen)
- Hungarian: magánhangzó (hu), magánhangzóbetű
- Icelandic: sérhljóði m
- Indonesian: huruf hidup (id), vokal (id)
- Ingrian: vokala, glasnoi
- Interlingua: vocal
- 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(母音) (ko) (mo'eum)
- Lao: ສະຫລະ (sa la)
- Latvian: patskanis m, vokālis m
- Macedonian: само́гласка f (samóglaska)
- Malagasy: zanatsoratra (mg)
- Malay: huruf hidup, vokal
- Maori: oro puare
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: эгшиг үсэг (egšig üseg)
- Occitan: vocala (oc) f
- Persian: واکه (fa) (vâke)
- 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
- Swahili: vokali (sw), irabu (sw)
- Swedish: vokal (sv) c
- Tagalog: patinig
- Tamil: உயிரெழுத்து (ta) (uyireḻuttu)
- Telugu: అచ్చు (te) (accu)
- Thai: เสียงสระ, สระ (th) (sà)
- Turkish: ünlü (tr)
- Ukrainian: голосна́ f (holosná)
- Veps: vokal'
- Volapük: vokat (vo), vokatatonat
- Walloon: voyale (wa) f
- Yoruba: fáwẹ̀lì
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Types of vowels (phonetics):
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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).
2019, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs, Yale University Press, page 52:However it should be vowelled – perhaps ‘Almaqah’ – his name seems to be composed of ‘Il’, the general name of the paramount Semitic deity […] , plus another element that is possibly from the Sabaic verb wqh, ‘to command’ […] .
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