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vowel in Arabic

صَائِت ṣāʔit

/ˈvaʊ.əl/

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also/vaʊl/

vowel in Arabic: صَائِت (ṣāʔit), مُصَوِّت (muṣawwit), حَرَكَة (ḥaraka), حَرْفُ مَدّ (ḥarfu madd). In English, vowel means a sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.

Arabic words for vowel

sound
صَائِت ṣāʔit, مُصَوِّت muṣawwit
letter
حَرَكَة ḥaraka, حَرْفُ مَدّ ḥarfu madd
to add vowel points
حَرَّكَ ḥarraka

English meaning of vowel

  1. noun A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.
  2. noun A letter or diacritic representing the sound of a vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, y (sometimes), and w (rarely).
  3. verb To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew or harakat in Arabic).

Full definition of vowel

vowel in a sentence

  • Hawaiian has either five or twenty-five vowels, depending on how they are counted.
  • The word facetiously is spelled with all six vowels in alphabetical order.
  • The word cwm, borrowed from Welsh, is an example of the letter w serving as a vowel in English.

Synonyms of vowel

vowel in other languages

Questions about vowel in Arabic

What is the meaning of vowel in Arabic?
Vowel in Arabic is صَائِت (ṣāʔit), مُصَوِّت (muṣawwit), حَرَكَة (ḥaraka), حَرْفُ مَدّ (ḥarfu madd).
ما معنى كلمة vowel؟
Vowel: صَائِت (ṣāʔit), مُصَوِّت (muṣawwit), حَرَكَة (ḥaraka), حَرْفُ مَدّ (ḥarfu madd).
What does vowel mean in English?
Vowel means a sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vowel (page history and authors), its translation table and English meanings. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Arabic words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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