vowel

Etymology
From, from , a variant of (whence 🇨🇬), from , itself a semantic loan of. .

Noun

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

Usage notes

 * Apart from a and possibly o, all vowel letters may also represent consonants (semivowels) in English. For example, y in, i in , u in.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: ,
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: صَائِت, مُصَوِّت
 * Aragonese: vocal
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: vocal
 * Azerbaijani: sait
 * Bashkir: һуҙынҡы
 * Basque: bokal
 * Belarusian:
 * Bengali:
 * Bikol Central: tiyaw
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: мукъаме
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Corsican: vucale
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, selvlyd
 * Dutch:, klinkerklank
 * Esperanto: vokalo
 * Estonian: ,
 * Faroese: sjálvljóð
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ხმოვანი
 * German: ; Vokallaut;
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: φωνήεντα (γράμματα), φωνῆεν
 * Haitian Creole: vwayèl
 * Hausa: wasali
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingrian: vokala, glasnoi
 * Interlingua: vocal
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kalmyk: эгшг
 * Kapampangan: kakatni
 * Kazakh: дауысты
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ສະຫລະ
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: patskanis, vokālis
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: само́гласка
 * Malay: bunyi hidup, vokal
 * Maori: oro puare
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠡᠭᠡᠰᠢᠭ
 * Navajo: zaʼáán
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Occitan:
 * Old Norse: hljóðstafr
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Metlut
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਸਵਰ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: fuaimreag
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: самоглас, са̏могласнӣк, во̀ка̄л
 * Roman: samoglas, ,
 * Slovak: samohláska
 * Slovene:
 * Southern Altai: ӱндӱ
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:, vokalljud,
 * Tagalog: patinig
 * Tajik: садонок
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: çekimli
 * Ukrainian: голосни́й
 * Urdu: مصوت
 * Uyghur: سوزۇق تاۋۇش
 * Uzbek:
 * Veps: vokal'
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: וואָקאַל
 * Yoruba: fáwẹ̀lì
 * Zulu: unkamisa


 * Afrikaans: ,
 * Arabic: حَرَكَة, حَرْفُ مَدّ
 * Aragonese: vocal
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: vocal
 * Bashkir: һуҙынҡы
 * Basque: bokal
 * Belarusian: гало́сная
 * Bikol Central: tiyaw
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Central Dusun: vokal
 * Chechen: мукъаме
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Corsican: vucale
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Faroese: sjálvljóð
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, letra vogal
 * Georgian: ხმოვანი
 * German: ; Vokalbuchstabe
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: φωνῆεν
 * Hungarian:, magánhangzóbetű
 * Icelandic: sérhljóði
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingrian: vokala, glasnoi
 * Interlingua: vocal
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kapampangan: siwala, siuala
 * Korean:
 * Lao: ສະຫລະ
 * Latvian: patskanis, vokālis
 * Macedonian: само́гласка
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay: huruf hidup, vokal
 * Maori: oro puare
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: эгшиг үсэг
 * Occitan:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scots: vouel
 * Scottish Gaelic: fuaimreag
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: самоглас, са̏могласнӣк
 * Roman: samoglas,
 * Slovak: samohláska
 * Spanish:, letra vocal
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: patinig
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: เสียงสระ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: голосна́
 * Veps: vokal'
 * Volapük:, vokatatonat
 * Walloon:
 * Yoruba: fáwẹ̀lì


 * Guaraní:
 * Gujarati:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua:

Verb

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

Translations

 * Arabic: