The AI-powered English dictionary
plural vowels
(phonetics) A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable. examples
(orthography) A letter representing the sound of a vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and y. examples
third-person singular simple present vowels, present participle vowelling or (US) voweling, simple past and past participle vowelled or (US) voweled
(linguistics) To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew or harakat in Arabic). quotations examples
However it should be vowelled – perhaps ‘Almaqah’ – his name seems to be composed of ‘Il’, the general name of the paramount Semitic deity […] , plus another element that is possibly from the Sabaic verb wqh, ‘to command’ […] .
2019, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs, Yale University Press, page 52