आवाज़

Borrowed from Persian آواز‎ (âvâz), from Middle Persian ʾwʾz (āwāz), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs. Cognate with Sanskrit वाच् (vā́c) and Latin vōx. Doublet of वाक् (vāk).

• IPA^(key): /ə.ʋɑːz/, /ɑː.ʋɑːz/

आवाज़ • (āvāz) f (Urdu spelling آواز‎)

1. voice; call, cry

   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

   Synonyms: स्वर (svar), वाक् (vāk)

2. sound, noise

   इतनी आवाज़ कौन मचा रहा है?

   itnī āvāz kaun macā rahā hai?

   Who is making all that noise?

   Synonyms: शोर (śor), वाक् (vāk)

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “आवाज़”, 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.