Hindi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "दरवाज़ा" in Hindi?

Q: How do you pronounce दरवाज़ा in Hindi?

दरवाज़ा is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /d̪əɾ.ʋaː.zaː/. It means “door.” dur-VAA-zaa — a dental d, a quick tap, the ambiguous व, and a nuqta z before the long ending.

dur-VAA-zaa — a dental d, a quick tap, the ambiguous व, and a nuqta z before the long ending.

दरवाज़ा /d̪əɾ.ʋaː.zaː/

darvaazaa

The two long aa vowels should sound identical in length; reducing the last one under English rhythm would erase the gender marking. The opening syllable is just a schwa run-up into them.

Listen: दरवाज़ा

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Sound it out

dar The stop is made on the teeth, followed by a bare schwa and one quick flick of the tongue tip.

vaa Less friction than an English v and less rounding than an English w; then a long open आ.

zaa ज़ with its nuqta buzzes like z, then a second long aa which marks the masculine ending.

Hear it in a sentence

यह दरवाज़ा बहुत भारी है।

Yeh darvaazaa bahut bhaaree hai.

This door is very heavy.

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"Yeh darvaazaa bahut bhaaree hai" pairs it with bhaaree, which opens with the breathy-voiced भ. So the sentence has a plain dental stop, a buzzing z and a breathy bilabial — three quite different voiced sounds in one short clause.

Where English speakers slip

The initial d comes out alveolar, the r comes out rhotic, and the ज़ comes out as j. Take them in order: tongue to the teeth, one quick flick, then a clean buzzing z. The final vowel is the fourth thing, and it must stay long.