different between vowel vs kasra

English

Etymology

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French vouel (French voyelle), from Latin v?c?lis (“voiced”), a semantic loan of Koine Greek ?????? (ph?nêen). Doublet of vocal.

Pronunciation

• enPR: vou??l, IPA^(key): /?va?.?l/
• (also) enPR: voul, IPA^(key): /va?l/
• Rhymes: -a??l, -a?l

Noun

vowel (plural vowels)

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

Antonyms

• (sound): consonant
• (letter): consonant

Derived terms

Related terms

• vocalic
• consonant
• liquid

See also

• vocalization

Placing of an element:

• prevocalic (occurring before a vowel)
• intervocalic (occurring between vowels)
• postvocalic (occurring after a vowel)

Types of vowels (phonetics):

• front, central, back
• rounded, unrounded
• close, near-close, close-mid, mid, open-mid, near-open, open

Translations

Verb

vowel (third-person singular simple present vowels, present participle vowelling or (US) voweling, simple past and past participle vowelled or (US) voweled)

1. (linguistics) To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew or harakat in Arabic)

Translations

Synonyms

• vowelize
• vocalize

Anagrams

• wolve

English

Alternative forms

• kasrah

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ???????? (kasra, “a breaking”), instance noun of the verb ??????? (kasara, “to break”).

Noun

kasra (plural kasras)

1. In Arabic script, the vowel point for "i", appearing as a small diagonal line placed below a letter (????) and designating a short i /i/. If the Arabic letter ?? (y??) immediately follows, it indicates a long ? /i?/.
2. In a fully vocalised Persian ??? represents the vowel /e/ and is only used in front of ??? to represent a diphthong, so unmarked ??? is /di/ but ???? with the diacritic is /dej/. This usage is different from Arabic.

Translations

See also

• Arabic diacritics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• fatha (fat?a)
• damma (?amma)
• sukun (suk?n)
• shadda (šadda)
• tashkil (tašk?l)

Anagrams

• Araks, Askar, Raska, Sakra, Skaar, araks, karas

French

Etymology

From Arabic ???????? (kasra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.s?a/

Noun

kasra m or f (plural kasras)

1. kasra

Hungarian

Etymology

kas +? -ra

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k??r?]
• Hyphenation: kas?ra

Noun

kasra

1. sublative singular of kas