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).

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.