آواز

See also: أوار‎

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian آواز‎ (âvâz).

Noun

آواز • (âvâz)

1. voice
2. sound
3. note, tune
4. noise
5. rumor
6. echo

Derived terms

• آوازلی‎ (âvâzlı)

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Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian ʾwʾz (āwāz, “voice, sound, tune”), from 𐭥𐭠𐭰‎ (wāč, wāz, “word, speech”), from Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs (“speech, voice”). Cognate with Sanskrit वाच् (vā́c) and Latin vōx.

Noun

Dari Persian	آواز‎
Iranian Persian	آواز‎
Tajiki Persian	овоз (ovoz)

آواز • (âvâz) (plural آوازها‎ (âvâz-hâ))

1. voice
2. sound
3. tune
4. rumor
5. echo

Derived terms

Derived terms

• آواز خواندن‎ (âvâz xândan)

• آوازه‎ (âvâze)

• آوازی‎ (âvâzi)

• پرآوازه‎ (por-âvâze)

Descendants

• → Assamese: আৱাজ (awaz)
• → Bengali: আওয়াজ (aoyaj)
• → Gujarati: અવાજ (avāj)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: आवाज़ (āvāz)

  Urdu: آواز‎ (āvāz)

• → Ottoman Turkish: آواز‎ (âvâz)
  • Turkish: avaz
  • → Serbo-Croatian: àvāz / а̀ва̄з
• → Sindhi: آوازُ‎ (āvāzu)
• → Tatar: аваз (awaz)

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Sindhi

Etymology

From Persian آواز‎ (âvâz).

Noun

آوازُ (āvāzu) m

1. voice
2. sound

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Urdu

Etymology

From Persian آواز‎ (âvâz). Cognate with Sanskrit वाच् (vā́c) and Latin vōx.

Noun

آواز • (āvāz) f (Hindi spelling आवाज़)

1. sound, noise
2. voice
3. call, cry
4. report, fame
5. rumor, innuendo

References

• Platts, John T. (1884), “آواز”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & co.