आवाज़

See also: आवाज

Hindi

Alternative forms

• आवाज (āvāj) (nuqtaless)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian آواز (āwāz), from Middle Persian ʾwʾz (āwāz), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs. Cognate with Sanskrit वाच् (vā́c) and Latin vōx. Doublet of वाक् (vāk). Compare Assamese আৱাজ (awaz), Bengali আওয়াজ (aōẇaj), Gujarati અવાજ (avāj), Marathi आवाज़ (āvāj̈), Punjabi ਅਵਾਜ਼ (avāz), Kannada ಆವಾಜು (āvāju).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /ɑː.ʋɑːz/, [äː.ʋäːz], /ɑː.ʋɑːd͡ʒ/, [äː.ʋäːd͡ʒ]

Noun

आवाज़ • (āvāz) f (Urdu spelling آواز)

1. voice; call, cry

   Synonyms: स्वर (svar), वाक् (vāk)

   मुझे किसी की आवाज़ अभी सुनाई दी।

   mujhe kisī kī āvāz abhī sunāī dī.

   I just heard someone's voice.

   पतली आवाज़ ― patlī āvāz ― high voice

   ऊँची आवाज़ ― ū̃cī āvāz ― loud voice

   आवाज़ उठाना ― āvāz uṭhānā ― to raise one's voice, to speak out

2. sound, noise

   Synonyms: शोर (śor), वाक् (vāk)

   इतनी आवाज़ कौन मचा रहा है?

   itnī āvāz kaun macā rahā hai?

   Who is making all that noise?

Declension

Declension of आवाज़ (fem cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	आवाज़ āvāz	आवाज़ें āvāzẽ
oblique	आवाज़ āvāz	आवाज़ों āvāzõ
vocative	आवाज़ āvāz	आवाज़ो āvāzo

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “avaz”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Platts, John T. (1884) “आवाज़”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.