Hindi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "कमज़ोर" in Hindi?

Q: How do you pronounce कमज़ोर in Hindi?

कमज़ोर is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /kəm.zoːɾ/. It means “weak.” kum-ZOHR — dry k, nuqta z, a long o with no glide, and one tap to finish.

kum-ZOHR — dry k, nuqta z, a long o with no glide, and one tap to finish.

कमज़ोर /kəm.zoːɾ/

kamzor

Short then long, with the second syllable closed as well — the word tips firmly backwards. Because the first syllable is a bare schwa, English speakers who stress it end up saying something closer to "CAM-zor," which reverses the natural pattern.

Listen: कमज़ोर

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Sound it out

kam Unaspirated क with a bare schwa, closed by m. Nothing here should be long or emphatic.

zor ज़ buzzing, a long ओ held motionless, and a single quick tap. The o is the word's only long vowel.

Hear it in a sentence

मैं आज कमज़ोर महसूस कर रहा हूँ।

Maiṁ aaj kamzor mehsoos kar rahaa hooṁ.

I feel weak today.

Listen: मैं आज कमज़ोर महसूस कर रहा हूँ।

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"Maiṁ aaj kamzor mehsoos kar rahaa hooṁ" adds mehsoos karnaa, another Persian-derived compound, so the sentence has a nuqta z and then a long oo in quick succession. Mehsoos also shows the ह-colouring in its first syllable.

Where English speakers slip

The o gets diphthongised into English "zore," and the r gets American colouring, so the second syllable balloons. Freeze the lips through the vowel and flick the tongue once at the end. Reading ज़ as j is the third habit worth breaking.