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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cobra

UK /ˈkəʊbɹə/ · US /ˈkoʊbɹə/ noun, proper noun

Forms cobras

  1. noun Any of the genus Naja of venomous snakes that can spread their neck ribs into a broad hood when threatened; a true cobra.
  2. noun A ring-necked spitting cobra or rinkhals (Hemachatus haemachatus).
  3. noun A king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah).
  4. noun A tree cobra (genus Pseudohaje).
  5. noun A shield-nosed cobra/coral cobra (genus Aspidelaps).
  6. noun A black desert cobra (genus Walterinnesia).
  7. noun An American cobra (Micrurus fulvius).
  8. noun A false water cobra, Hydrodynastes gigas.
  9. noun (UK politics, by extension) A cabinet committee meeting that would use a COBR room
  10. noun (UK politics, by extension) A cabinet committee that would meet using a COBR room
  11. proper noun (rare) A male given name.

Synonyms

COBR

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra (“a female snake”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun See Copra.
  2. noun The cobra de capello.

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

Sanskrit

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

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