vowel

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• vouʹəl
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• /ˈvaʊ.əl/
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• also: voul
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• also: /vaʊl/
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• rhymes with -aʊəl
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• CMU ARPABET: V AW1 AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English vowel, 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 and vocalis.

217 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: klinker — sound
• Afrikaans: vokaal — sound
• Albanian: zanore — sound
• Southern Altai: ӱндӱ (ündü) — sound
• Arabic: صَائِت (ṣāʔit) — sound
• Arabic: مُصَوِّت (muṣawwit) — sound
• Aragonese: vocal — sound
• Armenian: ձայնավոր (jaynavor) — sound
• Asturian: vocal — sound
• Azerbaijani: sait — sound
• Bashkir: һуҙынҡы (huźınqı) — sound
• Basque: bokal — sound
• Belarusian: гало́сны (halósny) — sound
• Bengali: স্বর (śor) — sound
• Central Bikol: tiyaw — sound
• Bulgarian: гла́сна (glásna) — sound
• Burmese: သရ (sa.ra.) — sound
• Catalan: vocal — sound
• Chechen: мукъаме (muqʼame) — sound
• Chinese Mandarin: 母音 (mǔyīn) — sound
• Chinese Mandarin: 元音 (yuányīn) — sound
• Corsican: vucale — sound
• Czech: samohláska — sound
• Danish: vokal — sound
• Danish: selvlyd — sound
• Dutch: klinker — sound
• Dutch: klinkerklank — sound
• Esperanto: vokalo — sound
• Estonian: täishäälik — sound
• Estonian: vokaal — sound
• Faroese: sjálvljóð — sound
• Finnish: vokaali — sound
• French: voyelle — sound
• Galician: vogal — sound
• Georgian: ხმოვანი (xmovani) — sound
• German: Vokal — sound
• German: Vokallaut — sound
• German: Selbstlaut — sound
• Greek: φωνήεν (foníen) — sound
• Ancient Greek: φωνήεντα — sound
• Ancient Greek: φωνῆεν (phōnêen) — sound
• Gujarati: સ્વર (svar) — sound
• Haitian Creole: vwayèl — sound
• Hausa: wasali — sound
• Hawaiian: woela — sound
• Hebrew: תְּנוּעָה (tnu‘á) — sound
• Hindi: स्वर (svar) — sound
• Hindi: सुर (sur) — sound
• Hungarian: magánhangzó — sound
• Icelandic: sérhljóð — sound
• Indonesian: huruf hidup — sound
• Indonesian: vokal — sound
• Ingrian: vokala — sound
• Ingrian: glasnoi — sound
• Interlingua: vocal — sound
• Irish: guta — sound
• Italian: vocale — sound
• Japanese: 母音 (boin) — sound
• Kalmyk: эгшг (egşg) — sound
• Kapampangan: kakatni — sound
• Kazakh: дауысты (dauysty) — sound
• Khmer: ស្រៈ (sraʼ) — sound
• Khmer: ស្វរៈ (svaʼraʼ) — sound
• Korean: 모음 (mo'eum) — sound
• Korean: 홀소리 (holsori) — sound
• Kyrgyz: үндүү (ündüü) — sound
• Lao: ສະຫລະ (sa la) — sound
• Latin: vōcālis — sound
• Latvian: patskanis — sound
• Latvian: vokālis — sound
• Lithuanian: balsis — sound
• Macedonian: само́гласка (samóglaska) — sound
• Malay: bunyi hidup — sound
• Malay: vokal — sound
• Northern Mansi: турыӈ суй (turyň suj) — sound
• Māori: oro puare — sound
• Meänkieli: vukaali — sound
• Mongolian: эгшиг (egšig) — sound
• Mongolian: ᠡᠭᠡᠰᠢᠭ (egesig) — sound
• Navajo: zaʼáán — sound
• Norwegian Bokmål: vokal — sound
• Occitan: vocala — sound
• Old Norse: hljóðstafr — sound
• Persian: مصوت (mossavet) — sound
• Plautdietsch: Metlut — sound
• Polish: samogłoska — sound
• Portuguese: vogal — sound
• Punjabi: ਸਵਰ (savar) — sound
• Romanian: vocală — sound
• Romansh: vocal — sound
• Russian: гла́сный (glásnyj) — sound
• Sanskrit: स्वर (svara) — sound
• Scottish Gaelic: fuaimreag — sound
• Serbo-Croatian: самоглас — sound
• Serbo-Croatian: са̏могласнӣк — sound
• Serbo-Croatian: во̀ка̄л — sound
• Serbo-Croatian: samoglas — sound
• Serbo-Croatian: sȁmoglasnīk — sound
• Serbo-Croatian: vòkāl — sound
• Slovak: samohláska — sound
• Slovene: samoglasnik — sound
• Spanish: vocal — sound
• Swahili: vokali — sound
• Swahili: irabu — sound
• Swedish: vokal — sound
• Swedish: vokalljud — sound
• Swedish: självljud — sound
• Tagalog: patinig — sound
• Tajik: садонок (sadonok) — sound
• Telugu: అచ్చు (accu) — sound
• Thai: สระ (sà) — sound
• Turkish: ünlü — sound
• Turkish: sesli — sound
• Turkmen: çekimli — sound
• Ukrainian: голосни́й (holosnýj) — sound
• Urdu: مُصَوِّت (musavvit) — sound
• Uyghur: سوزۇق تاۋۇش (sozuq tawush) — sound
• Uzbek: unli — sound
• Veps: vokalʹ — sound
• Vietnamese: nguyên âm — sound
• Vietnamese: mẫu âm — sound
• Volapük: vokat — sound
• Walloon: voyale — sound
• Welsh: llafariad — sound
• Yiddish: וואָקאַל (vokal) — sound
• Yoruba: fáwẹ̀lì — sound
• Zulu: unkamisa class 1a/2a — sound
• Afrikaans: klinker — letter
• Afrikaans: vokaal — letter
• Arabic: حَرَكَة (ḥaraka) — letter
• Arabic: حَرْفُ مَدّ (ḥarfu madd) — letter
• Aragonese: vocal — letter
• Armenian: ձայնավոր (jaynavor) — letter
• Asturian: vocal — letter
• Bashkir: һуҙынҡы (huźınqı) — letter
• Basque: bokal — letter
• Belarusian: гало́сная (halósnaja) — letter
• Central Bikol: tiyaw — letter
• Bulgarian: гла́сна (glásna) — letter
• Catalan: vocal — letter
• Chechen: мукъаме (muqʼame) — letter
• Chinese Mandarin: 母音 (mǔyīn) — letter
• Chinese Mandarin: 元音 (yuányīn) — letter
• Corsican: vucale — letter
• Czech: samohláska — letter
• Danish: vokal — letter
• Central Dusun: vokal — letter
• Dutch: klinker — letter
• Faroese: sjálvljóð — letter
• Finnish: vokaali — letter
• French: voyelle — letter
• Galician: vogal — letter
• Galician: letra vogal — letter
• Georgian: ხმოვანი (xmovani) — letter
• German: Vokal — letter
• German: Vokalbuchstabe — letter
• Greek: φωνήεν (foníen) — letter
• Ancient Greek: φωνῆεν (phōnêen) — letter
• Gujarati: સ્વર (svar) — letter
• Hungarian: magánhangzó — letter
• Hungarian: magánhangzóbetű — letter
• Icelandic: sérhljóði — letter
• Indonesian: huruf hidup — letter
• Indonesian: vokal — letter
• Ingrian: vokala — letter
• Ingrian: glasnoi — letter
• Interlingua: vocal — letter
• Irish: guta — letter
• Italian: vocale — letter
• Japanese: 母音 (boin) — letter
• Japanese: 母音字 (boinji) — letter
• Kankanaey: patinig — letter
• Kapampangan: siwala — letter
• Kapampangan: siuala — letter
• Korean: 모음 (mo'eum) — letter
• Lao: ສະຫລະ (sa la) — letter
• Latvian: patskanis — letter
• Latvian: vokālis — letter
• Macedonian: само́гласка (samóglaska) — letter
• Malagasy: zanatsoratra — letter
• Malay: huruf hidup — letter
• Malay: vokal — letter
• Māori: oro puare — letter
• Mongolian: эгшиг үсэг (egšig üseg) — letter
• Occitan: vocala — letter
• Iranian Persian: واکِه (vâke) — letter
• Polish: samogłoska — letter
• Portuguese: vogal — letter
• Romanian: vocală — letter
• Romansh: vocal — letter
• Russian: гла́сная (glásnaja) — letter
• Sanskrit: स्वर (svara) — letter
• Scots: vouel — letter
• Scottish Gaelic: fuaimreag — letter
• Serbo-Croatian: самоглас — letter
• Serbo-Croatian: са̏могласнӣк — letter
• Serbo-Croatian: samoglas — letter
• Serbo-Croatian: sȁmoglasnīk — letter
• Slovak: samohláska — letter
• Spanish: vocal — letter
• Spanish: letra vocal — letter
• Swahili: vokali — letter
• Swahili: irabu — letter
• Swedish: vokal — letter
• Tagalog: patinig — letter
• Tamil: உயிரெழுத்து (uyireḻuttu) — letter
• Telugu: అచ్చు (accu) — letter
• Thai: เสียงสระ — letter
• Thai: สระ (sà) — letter
• Turkish: ünlü — letter
• Ukrainian: голосна́ (holosná) — letter
• Veps: vokalʹ — letter
• Volapük: vokat — letter
• Volapük: vokatatonat — letter
• Walloon: voyale — letter
• Yoruba: fáwẹ̀lì — letter
• Arabic: حَرَّكَ (ḥarraka) — to add vowel points