آواز

Borrowed from Classical Persian آوَاز (āwāz), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wā́kš, from Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs, from *wekʷ-.

• Tone class: H(L)
• IPA^(key): /áːwáːz/

آواز (āwāz) m

1. sound, voice

• Baart, Joan L. G. (1997), “āwāz”, in The sounds and tones of Kalam Kohistani: with wordlist and texts (Studies in Languages of Northern Pakistan; 1)‎^[1], National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University; Summer Institute of Linguistics, page 77

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

1. Arabic spelling of âvâz (“sound”)

Borrowed from Classical Persian آوَاز (āwāz).

آواز • (âvâz)

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

• آوازلی (âvâzlı)

• Turkish: avaz
• → Albanian: avaz

آواز • (āwáz) m

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

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.

• Audio (Iran):

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آواز • (āwāz / âvâz) (plural آوازها (āwāz-hā / âvâz-hâ), Tajik spelling овоз)

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

Borrowed from Classical Persian آوَاز (āwāz).

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /a.ˈʋaː.z/
• (rustic) IPA^(key): /a.ˈʋaː.d͡ʒ/

آواز • (āvāz) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਆਵਾਜ਼)

1. sound
2. voice
3. call (ie. to call out for someone)

• واج (vāj)

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002), “آواز”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat (in Punjabi), Lahore: عزیز پبلشرز [ʻazīz pabliśarz]
• Bashir, Kanwal (2012), “آواز”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Hyattsville, MD: Dunwoody Press
• “ਆਵਾਜ਼”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2026

Borrowed from Classical Persian آوَاز (āwāz).

آوازُ • (āvāzu) m (Devanagari आवाज़ु)

1. voice
2. sound

Borrowed from Classical Persian آواز (āvāz), from Middle Persian ʾwʾz (āwāz).^[1] Cognate with Sanskrit वाच् (vā́c) and Latin vōx. First attested in c. 1665 as Middle Hindi آواز (āvaz).^[2]

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɑː.ʋɑːz/, [ɑː.wɑːz]
  • (colloquial) IPA^(key): [ə.ʋɑːz]
• Rhymes: -ɑːz
• Hyphenation: آ‧واز

آواز • (āvāz) f

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 sense) report, fame
7. (obsolete) rumour, innuendo

• “آواز”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024), “آواز”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]

آواز (āvāz)

1. sound
2. voice