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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

lemon

/ˈlɛmən/ noun, adjective, verb, proper noun

Forms lemons lemoning lemoned limon Lemmond

  1. noun A yellowish citrus fruit.
  2. noun A semitropical evergreen tree, Citrus limon, that bears such fruits.
  3. noun A more or less bright shade of yellow associated with lemon fruits.
  4. noun (uncountable, rare) Lemon juice.
  5. noun A lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostris).
  6. noun (slang) A defective or inadequate item or individual. “He didn’t realise until he’d paid for it that the car was a lemon.”
  7. noun (Cockney rhyming slang, shortened from “lemon flavour”) Favor. “A thousand quid for that motor? Do me a lemon! I could get it for half that.”
  8. noun (fandom slang) A piece of fanfiction involving explicit sex.
  9. adjective Containing or having the flavour/flavor and/or scent of lemons.
  10. adjective Of the pale yellow colour/color of lemons.
  11. adjective (Cockney rhyming slang, from "lemon tart") Smart; cheeky, vocal.
  12. verb (transitive) To flavour with lemon. “You can start the vegetables cooking while you are lemoning the fish.”
  13. proper noun A surname.
  14. proper noun An unincorporated community in McLean County, Kentucky, United States.
  15. proper noun A minor river in Devon, England, which joins the River Teign at Newton Abbot.

Synonyms

bomb PWP smutfic lemon yellow gamboge maize lemon tree Citrus limon stinker

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English lymon, from Old French lymon (“citrus”), from Arabic لَيْمُون (laymūn) or Classical Persian لِیمُون (līmūn), a variant of Classical Persian لِیمُو (līmū, līmō), from Sanskrit निम्बू (nimbū, “lime”), ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *limaw or Munda. Doublet of lime.
The fandom sense is named after the erotic anime series Cream Lemon.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An oval or roundish fruit resembling the orange, and containing a pulp usually intensely acid. It is produced by a tropical tree of the genus Citrus,the common fruit known in commerce being that of the species C. Limonum or C. Medica (var. Limonum). There are many varieties of the fruit, some of which are sweet.
  2. noun The tree which bears lemons; the lemon tree. Lemon grass (Bot.), a fragrant East Indian grass (Andropogon Shoenanthus, and perhaps other allied species), which yields the grass oil used in perfumery.

Etymology [F. limon, Per. lim; cf. Ar.laim, Sp. limon, It. limone. Cf. Lime a fruit.]

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

Sanskrit

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