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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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violin

/ˌvaɪ.əˈlɪn/ noun, verb

Forms violins violining violined

  1. noun (music) A small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin and played with a bow. “When I play it like this, it's a fiddle; when I play it like this, it's a violin.”
  2. noun (inexact, sometimes proscribed) Any instrument of the violin family, always inclusive of violins, violas and cellos, and sometimes further including the double bass. “The string quartet, one of the most popular groupings in chamber music, is composed entirely of violins: two violins proper, one viola, and one cello.”
  3. noun (music, metonymic) A violinist in an orchestra or group. “The violins are seated with sufficient elbow room.”
  4. verb (ambitransitive) To play on, or as if on, a violin.

Synonyms

fiddle crowd

Etymology

Derived from Italian violino (“little viola”), from viola + -ino.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A small instrument with four strings, played with a bow; a fiddle.

Etymology [It. violino, dim. of viola. See Viol.]

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

Sanskrit

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