vowel meaning in Sanskrit
स्वर svara
/ˈvaʊ.əl/
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also/vaʊl/
vowel in Sanskrit: स्वर (svara). 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.
Sanskrit words for vowel
- sound
- स्वर svara
- letter
- स्वर svara
English meaning of vowel
- noun A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.
- 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).
- verb To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew or harakat in Arabic).
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
- vowel in Hindi
- vowel in Tamil
- vowel in Marathi
- vowel in Urdu
- vowel in Bengali
- vowel in Telugu
- vowel in Malayalam
- vowel in Kannada
- vowel in Punjabi
- vowel in Gujarati
- vowel in Odia
- vowel in Assamese
- vowel in Tagalog
- vowel in Arabic
- vowel in Malay
- vowel in Indonesian
- vowel in Persian
- vowel in Thai
- vowel in Vietnamese
- vowel in Myanmar
Questions about vowel in Sanskrit
- What is the meaning of vowel in Sanskrit?
- Vowel in Sanskrit is स्वर (svara).
- vowel इत्यस्य संस्कृते कः अर्थः?
- Vowel: स्वर (svara).
- 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 Sanskrit words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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