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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harp

UK /hɑːp/ · US /hɑɹp/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms harps harping harped

  1. noun (music) A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body
  2. noun Any instrument of the same musicological type.
  3. noun A harmonica.
  4. noun A struck tuned percussion instrument of metal or wooden bars, especially as a function of a theatre organ.
  5. noun (Scotland) A grain sieve.
  6. noun The component of a lamp to which one attaches the lampshade, consisting of a lightweight frame that usually surrounds the bulb with an attachment at the top for the finial.
  7. verb (derogatory, usually with on) To repeatedly mention a subject, especially so as to nag or complain. “Why do you harp on a single small mistake?”
  8. verb (transitive) To play on (a harp or similar instrument).
  9. verb (transitive) To play (a tune) on the harp.
  10. verb (transitive, archaic) To develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.
  11. proper noun A surname originating as an occupation for a player of the harp.

Synonyms

glee-beam keep on about perseverate harmonica mouth organ mouth harp dwell

Etymology

From Middle English harpe, from Old English hearpe (“harp”), from Proto-West Germanic *harpā, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ (“harp”). Cognate with Scots hairp (“harp”), West Frisian harpe, harp (“harp”), Low German Harp (“harp”), Dutch harp (“harp”), German Harfe (“harp”), Danish harpe (“harp”), Swedish harpa (“harp”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with the fingers.
  2. noun A constellation; Lyra, or the Lyre.
  3. verb To play on the harp.
  4. verb To dwell on or recur to a subject tediously or monotonously in speaking or in writing; to refer to something repeatedly or continually; --usually with on or upon. "Harpings upon old themes." W. Irving.

Etymology [OE. harpe, AS. hearpe; akin to D. harp, G.harfe, OHG. harpha, Dan. harpe, Icel. & Sw. harpa.]

Etymology [AS. hearpian. See Harp, n.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “harp”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

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