Hindi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "मेज़" in Hindi?

mayz — a long flat e and a genuine buzzing z from the nuqta, voiced right to the end.

मेज़ /meːz/

mez

The word's whole identity rests on the vowel's length and the consonant's voicing, neither of which survives careless speech. There is very little margin for error in a syllable this short.

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Sound it out

me m with a long ए held motionless; English "may" glides toward ee, and this vowel must not.

z The nuqta makes this a Persian z rather than the affricate ज, and the voicing has to run right through it — English half-devoices a word-final z.

Hear it in a sentence

प्लेटें मेज़ पर रखिए।

Pleṭeṁ mez par rakhiye.

Put the plates on the table.

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"Pleṭeṁ mez par rakhiye" uses pleṭeṁ, a nasalized feminine plural of a loanword with a retroflex ट, and rakhiye keeps the aspirated ख from rakhnaa. Mez sits between a retroflex noun and an aspirated verb, so it is the easy word in a hard sentence.

Where English speakers slip

Reading ज़ as j gives "mej," and diphthongising the vowel gives "mayz" with an English long a. Both matter. Hold the vowel in one position and finish on a clean buzz that is still voiced when you stop.