# آواز
## Kalami
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian آوَاز (āwāz).

### Noun

آواز (āwāz) m
* sound, voice

## Khalaj
### Noun

آواز (âvâz) (definite accusative آوازؽ, plural آوازلار)
* Arabic spelling of âvâz (“sound”)

#### Declension
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian آوَاز (āwāz).

### Noun

آواز • (âvâz)
* voice
* sound
* note, tune
* noise
* rumor
* echo

#### Derived terms

* آوازلی (âvâzlı)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: avaz
* → Albanian: avaz

## Pashto
### Noun

آواز • (āwáz) m
* voice, sound
* 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: [ʔɑː.wɑːz]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔɑː.wɑːz]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔɑː.wɑːz]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ʔɑː.wɑːz]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ʔɔː.wɔːz]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ʔɒː.vɒːz]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ʔɔ.vɔz]
* Audio (Iran):(file)

### Noun

آواز • (âvâz) (plural آوازها (âvâz-hâ))
* voice
* sound
* tune
* rumor
* 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)
* → Old Javanese: awās
** Javanese: ꦲꦮꦱ꧀ (awas)
** → Malay: awas (“watch out, beware”)
    Indonesian: awas
* → 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
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian آوَاز (āwāz). Unrelated to واج (vāj), which is a native word.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Punjabi) IPA: /a.ˈʋaː.z/
* (rustic) IPA: /a.ˈʋaː.d͡ʒ/

### Noun

آواز • (āvāz) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਆਵਾਜ਼)
* sound
* voice
* call (ie. to call out for someone)

#### Declension
### 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, 2025

## Sindhi
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian آواز (āwāz).

### Noun

آوازُ • (āvāzu) m (Devanagari आवाज़ु)
* voice
* sound

## Urdu
### Etymology

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: /ɑː.ʋɑːz/, [ɑː.wɑːz]
** (colloquial) IPA: [ə.ʋɑːz]
* Rhymes: -ɑːz
* Hyphenation: آ‧واز

### Noun

آواز • (āvāz) f (Hindi spelling आवाज़)
* voice
* sound, noise
* (broadcasting) sound (as opposed to video)
    Antonym: تَصْوِیر (tasvīr)
* volume (of a device)
* call, cry, slogan
* (dated) report, fame
* (obsolete) rumour, innuendo

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ Platts, John T. (1884) “آواز”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
* ↑ “آواز”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

### Further reading

* “آواز”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
* Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “آواز”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]

## Ushojo
### Noun

آواز (āvāz)
* sound
* voice