Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

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)

-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.

armadillo

UK /ɑːməˈdɪləʊ/ · US /ɑɹməˈdɪloʊ/ noun

Forms armadillos armadilloes

noun Any of the burrowing mammals in the families Dasypodidae, Chlamyphoridae, Tolypeutidae and Euphractidae in the order Cingulata, found in the Americas, especially South America, and covered with bony, jointed protective plates.

Synonyms

Borrowed from Spanish armadillo, diminutive of armado (“armored”), in reference to its protective plates.

Etymology [Sp. armadillo, dim. of armado armed, p. p. of armar to arm. Do called from being armed with a bony shell.]

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

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

घुण ghuṇa a peculiar kind of insect found in timber; the pangolin or armadillo.