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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orphan

UK /ˈɔːfən/ · US /ˈɔɹfən/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms orphans orphaning orphaned orphanest orphanedst orphaneth orphane

  1. noun A person, especially a minor, both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.
  2. noun A person, especially a minor, whose parents have permanently abandoned them.
  3. noun A young animal with no mother.
  4. noun (figuratively) Anything that is unsupported, as by its source, provider or caretaker, by reason of the supporter's demise or decision to abandon.
  5. noun (typography) A single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page.
  6. noun (computing) Any unreferenced object.
  7. adjective Deprived of parents (also orphaned). “She is an orphan child.”
  8. adjective (by extension, figuratively) Remaining after the removal of some form of support. “With its government funding curtailed, the gun registry became an orphan program.”
  9. verb (transitive) To deprive of parents (used almost exclusively in the passive). “What do you do when you come across two orphaned polar bear cubs?”
  10. verb (transitive, computing) To make unavailable, as by removing the last remaining pointer or reference to. “When you removed that image tag, you orphaned the resized icon.”

Antonyms

widow

Etymology

Late Middle English, from Late Latin orphanus, from Ancient Greek ὀρφανός (orphanós, “without parents, fatherless”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃órbʰos.
Cognate with Sanskrit अर्भ (árbha), Latin orbus (“orphaned”), Old Armenian որբ (orb, “orphan”), Old High German erbi, arbi (German Erbe (“heir”)), Old English ierfa (“heir”). More at erf.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living. Orphans' court (Law), a court in some of the States of the Union, having jurisdiction over the estates and persons of orphans or other wards. Bouvier.
  2. adjective Bereaved of parents, or (sometimes) of one parent.
  3. verb To cause to become an orphan; to deprive of parents. Young.

Etymology [L. orphanus, Gr. orbus. Cf. Orb a blank window.]

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

Sanskrit

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