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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cabin

/ˈkæbɪn/ noun, verb

Forms cabins cabining cabined

  1. noun (US) A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it. “Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin.”
  2. noun (informal) A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people.
  3. noun A private room on a ship. “the captain’s cabin”
  4. noun The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping.
  5. noun The passenger area of an airplane.
  6. noun (travel, aviation) The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.
  7. noun (rail transport, informal) A signal box.
  8. noun A small room; an enclosed place.
  9. verb (transitive) To place in a cabin or other small space.
  10. verb (by extension) To limit the scope of.
  11. verb (intransitive, obsolete) To live in, or as if in, a cabin; to lodge.

Synonyms

hut shack shed cell chamber pod

Etymology

From Middle English caban, cabane, from Old French cabane, from Medieval Latin capanna (“a cabin”); see further etymology there. Doublet of cabana and cabane.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A cottage or small house; a hut. Swift.
  2. noun A small room; an inclosed place.
  3. To live in, or as in, a cabin; to lodge.
  4. verb To confine in, or as in, a cabin.

Etymology [OF. caban, fr. W. caban booth, cabin, dim. of cab cot, tent; or fr. F. cabane, cabine, LL. cabanna, perh. from the Celtic.]

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

Sanskrit

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