Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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vampire

/ˈvæm.paɪ.ə(ɹ)/ noun, verb

Forms vampires vampiring vampired vampyre wampyr

  1. noun A mythological creature (usually humanoid and undead) said to feed on the blood or life energy of the living. “Bram Stoker's novel Dracula built on centuries-old stories of vampires and also encouraged new growth of the mythology.”
  2. noun (colloquial, usually humorous) A person with habits traditionally ascribed to (literal) vampires, such as heliophobia, being a night owl, having pale skin, and so on. “Somehow I doubt that Kelly will want to go surfing with us — she's such a vampire that she might recoil from the sun, lol!”
  3. noun (colloquial, offensive) A person with the medical condition porphyria cutanea tarda, colloquially known as vampirism, with effects such as photosensitivity and brownish-red stained teeth.
  4. noun A blood-sucking bat; vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus)
  5. noun (figurative, derogatory) A person who drains one's time, energy, money, etc. “emotional vampire”
  6. noun (dated) A vamp: a seductive woman who exploits men.
  7. noun (US slang) A medical technician who works with patients' blood; especially, a phlebotomist.
  8. noun (US military slang) Synonym of anti-ship missile (ASM), particularly an incoming hostile one. “Vampire. Vampire. Vampire. Battle stations.”
  9. verb (transitive, figurative) To drain of energy or resources.

Synonyms

nosferatu lamia heliophobe goth vampire bat hemovore hematophagous anti-ship missile

Etymology

From French vampire, from German Vampir, via Hungarian from a Slavic word, probably Serbo-Croatian vàmpīr /ва̀мпӣр, from Proto-Slavic *ǫpyrь, further possibly from Proto-Turkic *ōpur (“glutton, witch, evil spirit”), or from native construction. Doublet of dhampir and oupire.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730.
  2. noun Fig.: One who lives by preying on others; an extortioner; a bloodsucker.

Etymology [F. vampire (cf. It. vampiro, G. & D. vampir), fr. Servian vampir.]

Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “vampire”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “vampire” (best matches first).