Vowel

Noun

 * 1)  A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.
 * 2) A letter representing the sound of vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o and u, and  sometimes y.

Antonyms

 * : consonant
 * : consonant

Related terms

 * semivowel
 * consonant
 * liquid

Adjectives for Vowel
open; various (pi); softening; euphonious; nasalized;  drawled;  guttural;   mispronounced; throaty.

Verbs for Vowel
ablaut—; accent—; accentuate—; articulate —; discard—; economize on—s; emphasize —; employ—; lengthen—; misuse—; pronounce—; silence—; shorten—; stress—; umlaut—; trip up on—s; —changes; — sharpens.

Thesaurus
accented, allophone, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, articulation, aspiration, assimilated, assimilation, back, barytone, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, check, checked, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, dental, diphthong, dissimilated, dissimilation, dorsal, epenthetic vowel, explosive, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, glottalization, guttural, hard, heavy, high, intonated, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, manner of articulation, mid, modification, monophthong, monophthongal, morphophoneme, mute, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, parasitic vowel, peak, pharyngeal, pharyngealization, pharyngealized, phone, phoneme, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, plosive, posttonic, prothetic vowel, retroflex, rounded, segmental phoneme, semivowel, soft, sonant, sonority, speech sound, stop, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, syllabic, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, transition sound, triphthong, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocable, vocal, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced, voiced sound, voiceless, voiceless sound, voicing, vowellike, weak, wide

Etymology
From vouel (French: voyelle), from  vocalis, "voiced".

Pronunciation

 * also ,
 * also ,

Translations

 * Arabic: مصوت,
 * Armenian:
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: klinker, klinkerklank
 * Esperanto: vokalo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:


 * Macedonian: самогласка
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:, ,
 * Roman:, ,
 * Swedish: vokal, vokalljud, självljud
 * Telugu: అచ్చు (acchu)
 * Thai: สระ
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: vokat


 * Armenian:
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: sérhljóði
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 母音字
 * Korean: 모음


 * Macedonian: самогласка
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scots: vouel
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Roman: ,
 * Spanish: vocal
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: అచ్చు (acchu)
 * Volapük: vokat, vokatatonat


 * Danish: vokal
 * Guaraní: pu'ae
 * Hebrew: תְּנוּעָה (t’nu‘ah)
 * Indonesian: huruf hidup, huruf vokal
 * Interlingua: vocal
 * Slovak: samohláska
 * Spanish: vocal
 * Turkish: ünlü

Anagrams

 * wolve