آواز

See also: أوار

Kalami

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian آوَاز (āwāz).

Noun

آواز (āwāz) m

1. sound, voice

Khalaj

Noun

آواز (âvâz) (definite accusative آوازؽ, plural آوازلار)

1. Arabic spelling of âvâz (“sound”)

Declension

Declension of آواز

	singular	plural
nominative	آواز	آوازلار
genitive	آوازؽݧ	آوازلارؽݧ
dative	آوازقا	آوازلارقا
definite accusative	آوازؽ	آوازلارؽ
locative	آوازچا	آوازلارچا
ablative	آوازدا	آوازلاردا
instrumental	آوازلا	آوازلارلا
equative	آوازوارا	آوازلاروارا

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian آوَاز (āwāz).

Noun

آواز • (âvâz)

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

Derived terms

• آوازلی (âvâzlı)

Descendants

• Turkish: avaz
• → Albanian: avaz

Pashto

Noun

آواز • (āwáz) m

1. voice, sound
2. rumor, talk, talking

Persian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.wɑːz]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.wɑːz]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.wɑːz]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.wɑːz]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔɔː.wɔːz]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɒː.vɒːz]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɔ.vɔz]

Readings
Classical reading?	āwāz
Dari reading?	āwāz
Iranian reading?	âvâz
Tajik reading?	ovoz

• Audio (Iran):

  (file)

Noun

Dari	آواز
Iranian Persian
Tajik	овоз

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

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

Derived terms

• آواز خواندن (âvâz xândan)
• آوازه (âvâze)
• آوازی (âvâzi)
• پرآوازه (por-âvâze)

 

Descendants

• → Assamese: আৱাজ (awaz)
• → Azerbaijani: avaz
• → Bengali: আওয়াজ (awaz)
• → Chechen: аз (az)
• → Gujarati: અવાજ (avāj)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: आवाज़ (āvāz)

  Urdu: آواز (āvāz)

• → Khalaj: âvâz
• → Marathi: आवाज़ (āvāj̈)
• → Ottoman Turkish: آواز (âvâz)
  • Turkish: avaz
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: а̀ва̄з

    Latin script: àvāz

• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਅਵਾਜ਼ (avāz)

  Shahmukhi script: آواز (āvāz)

• → Sindhi: āvāzu

  Arabic script: آوازُ

  Devanagari script: आवाज़ु

  Khudabadi script: 𑊱𑋛𑋠𑋂𑋩𑋣

• → Southern Altai: агӧс (agös)
• → Tatar: аваз (awaz)
• → Uyghur: ئاۋاز (awaz)
• → Uzbek: ovoz
• → Zazaki: awaz

Punjabi

Alternative forms

• واج (vāj), اواز (avāz) — colloquial, rustic

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs

Proto-Indo-Iranian *wā́kš

Classical Persian آوَاز (āwāz)bor.

Punjabi آواز (āvāz)

Borrowed from Classical Persian آوَاز (āwāz).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /äː.ʋäːz/, [ä.ˈʋäːzᵊ]
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): [ɐ.ˈʋäːzᵊ], [ˈʋäːzᵊ]
  • (rustic or India) IPA^(key): [ɐ.ˈʋäːd͡ʒᵊ], [ˈʋäːd͡ʒᵊ]

Noun

آواز • (āvāz) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਆਵਾਜ਼)

1. sound
2. voice
3. (figuratively) call

Declension

Declension of آواز
dir. sg.	آواز (āvāz)
dir. pl.	آوازاں (āvāzāṉ)
	singular	plural
direct	آواز (āvāz)	آوازاں (āvāzāṉ)
oblique	آواز (āvāz)	آوازاں (āvāzāṉ)
vocative	آوازے (āvāze)	آوازو (āvāzo)
ablative	آوازوں (āvāzoṉ)	آوازاں (āvāzāṉ)
locative	آوازی (āvāzī)	آوازِیں (āvāzīṉ)
instrumental	آوازِیں (āvāzīṉ)	آوازے (āvāze)

Further reading

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “آواز”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
• Bashir, Kanwal (2012) “آواز”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Hyattsville, MD: Dunwoody Press
• “ਆਵਾਜ਼”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2024

Sindhi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian آواز (āwāz).

Noun

آوازُ • (āvāzu) m (Devanagari आवाज़ु)

1. voice
2. sound

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs

Proto-Indo-Iranian *wā́kš

Classical Persian آوَاز (āwāz)bor.

Urdu آواز (āvāz)

Borrowed from Classical Persian آواز (āvāz), from Middle Persian ʾwʾz (āwāz). Cognate with Sanskrit वाच् (vā́c) and Latin vōx. First attested in c. 1665 as Middle Hindi آواز (āvaz).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɑː.ʋɑːz/, [ɑː.wɑːz]

  • Audio (Pakistan):

    (file)

  • (colloquial) IPA^(key): [ə.ʋɑːz]
• Rhymes: -ɑːz
• Hyphenation: آ‧واز

Noun

آواز • (āvāz) f (Hindi spelling आवाज़)

1. voice
2. sound, noise
3. (broadcasting) sound (as opposed to video)

   Antonym: تَصْوِیر (tasvīr)

4. volume (of a device)
5. call, cry, slogan
6. (dated) report, fame
7. (obsolete) rumour, innuendo

Declension

Declension of آواز
	singular	plural
direct	آواز (āvāz)	آوازیں (āvāzẽ)
oblique	آواز (āvāz)	آوازوں (āvāzõ)
vocative	آواز (āvāz)	آوازو (āvāzo)

Further reading

• “آواز”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “آواز”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]

Ushojo

Noun

آواز (āvāz)

1. sound
2. voice