1. to mark or supply with vowel points or signs, especially in Hebrew or Arabic texts
Usage: linguistics; typography
2. to change a consonant sound into a vowel sound
Usage: phonetics

Examples

• The Hebrew text needs to be vowelized for beginning readers.
• Ancient manuscripts were often written without vowelizing the text.
• The software can automatically vowelize Arabic documents.
• Students learning Hebrew must practice reading vowelized texts first.
• In some languages, consonants vowelize in certain phonetic environments.
• The scribe carefully vowelized each word in the religious manuscript.