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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Mars

UK /ˈmɑːz/ · US /ˈmɑɹz/ proper noun, noun

Also a form of mar

Forms Marses

  1. proper noun (astronomy, uncountable) The fourth planet in the solar system. Symbol: ♂ “Mars has two moons, Deimos and Phobos.”
  2. proper noun (Roman mythology, uncountable) The Roman god of war. “Mars was the lover of Venus, and together they had a daughter called Harmonia.”
  3. proper noun (poetic, countable, plural Marses) War, personified. “In the first half of the twentieth century, Mars devastated Europe.”
  4. noun (heraldry, rare) Gules (red), in the postmedieval practice of blazoning the tinctures of certain sovereigns' (especially British monarchs') coats as planets.
  5. noun (obsolete, alchemy, chemistry) Iron.
  6. proper noun A surname.
  7. proper noun A brand of chocolate bar with caramel and nougat filling.
  8. proper noun A village in Semenivka urban hromada, Novhorod-Siverskyi Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine.

Synonyms

Ares ♂ Red Planet

Etymology

From Middle English Mars, from Latin Mārs (“god of war”), from Old Latin Māvors.

Possibly a variant of Marrs, itself from Marr with post-medieval excrescent -s.
The Mars bar was named after Franklin Clarence Mars, who founded the company that produces these chocolate bars.

Borrowed from Ukrainian Марс (Mars).

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The god of war and husbandry.
  2. noun One of the planets of the solar system, the fourth in order from the sun, or the next beyond the earth, having a diameter of about 4,200 miles, a period of 687 days, and a mean distance of 141,000,000 miles. It is conspicuous for the redness of its light.

Etymology [L. Mars, gen. Martis, archaic Mavors, gen. Mavortis.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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