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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burner

UK /ˈbɜːnə/ · US /ˈbɝnɚ/ noun

Forms burners

  1. noun An element on a kitchen stove, hob, or cooktop that generates localized heat for cooking.
  2. noun (chemistry) A device that generates localized heat for experiments; a Bunsen burner.
  3. noun A device that burns fuel; e.g. a diesel engine; a hot-air balloon's propulsion system.
  4. noun A device for burning refuse; an incinerator.
  5. noun (computing) A device that records data or music to an optical disc, such as a CD-R or DVD-RW.
  6. noun (computing) An app that creates temporary phone numbers for a user.
  7. noun (slang) An elaborate piece of graffiti.
  8. noun (slang) A pyrotechnic tear gas canister.
  9. noun A participant in the Burning Man festival.

Synonyms

eye ring

Etymology

From burn + -er. Merged with and eclipsed related Middle English brennar, brennere (“an incendiary, incinerator”). Compare German Brenner (“burner”), Swedish brännare (“burner”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, burns or sets fire to anything.
  2. noun The part of a lamp, gas fixture, etc., where the flame is produced. Bunsen's burner (Chem.), a kind of burner, invented by Professor Bunsen of Heidelberg, consisting of a straight tube, four or five inches in length, having small holes for the entrance of air at the bottom. Illuminating gas being also admitted at the bottom, a mixture of gas and air is formed which burns at the top with a feebly luminous but intensely hot flame.

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

Sanskrit

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