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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mocha

UK /ˈmɒkə/ · US /ˈmoʊkə/ noun, adjective, proper noun

Forms mochas Mokha Mukha

  1. noun (countable) A coffee drink with chocolate syrup added, or a serving thereof.
  2. noun A flavour that combines coffee and chocolate. “mocha fudge”
  3. noun A dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.
  4. noun A strong Arabian coffee.
  5. noun Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, many European species having dark brown coloration.
  6. noun (historical) An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain.
  7. adjective Of a dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.
  8. proper noun A village in Gujarat, India.
  9. proper noun A village in Madhya Pradesh, India.
  10. proper noun A city in Tungurahua Province, Ecuador.
  11. proper noun A city in Taiz Governorate, Yemen.
  12. proper noun A female given name.
  13. proper noun A surname.
  14. proper noun (computer languages) The name originally proposed for JavaScript.

Synonyms

café mocha caffè mocha coffolate mochaccino mocha coffee

Etymology

From Mocha, Yemen, a port on the Red Sea, from Arabic اَلْمُخَا (al-muḵā), for its role as a major marketplace for coffee during Ottoman rule.
The beans often had a chocolaty flavor, hence by extension came to refer to any coffee with a chocolate flavor, or any mixture of coffee and chocolate flavors, notably coffee with chocolate syrup added.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A seaport town of Arabia, on the Red Sea.
  2. noun A variety of coffee brought from Mocha.

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