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.

preparatory

UK /ˈpɹɛp(ə)ɹət(ə)ɹi/ · US /ˈpɹɛp(ə)ɹətɔɹi/ adjective

Synonyms

From Middle English preparatori, from Late Latin praeparatorius. By surface analysis, prepare + -atory.

Etymology [L. praeparatorius: cf. F. préparatoire.]

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

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

सूत्या sūtyā drinking the Soma juice at a sacrifice; religious bathing, ablution preparatory or subsequent to a sacrifice.
अपस्नात apa-snāta bathed or bathing after death or mourning, or upon the death of a connection, preparatory to other ceremonies.
सुत्वन् sutvan an offerer of Soma juice; a drinker of Soma; a student who has performed his ablutions (subsequent or prepar…
अभिषव abhi-ṣava or abhi-ṣavaṇa, am, n. pressing out the juice of the Soma plant; distillation; religious bathing, ablution p…
उपाकरण upā-karaṇa bringing near, inviting, invitation to begin; a term applied to certain sentences, called Praiṣas etc., with…
दीक्षित dīkṣita initiated, consecrated; prepared for a sacrifice; one who has received initiation or by whom the preparatory…
सवन savana the act of extracting or pouring out the juice of the Soma plant; a libation; a sacrifice or oblation (in ge…
उपक्रम upa-krama going near to, approach; undertaking; commencement, beginning; enterprise, planning, original conception, pl…