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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sable

/ˈseɪbəl/ noun, adjective, proper noun

Forms sables sabler sablest sa. s.

  1. noun (countable) A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur.
  2. noun (countable) Any other marten, especially Martes americana (syn. Mustela americana).
  3. noun (countable and uncountable) A pelt of fur of a sable or of one of another species of martens; a coat made from this fur.
  4. noun (countable) An artist's brush made from the fur of the sable, the kolinsky sable-hair brush.
  5. noun (heraldry, uncountable) A black colour on a coat of arms.
  6. noun (countable and uncountable) A dark brown colour, resembling the fur of some sables.
  7. noun (in the plural, sables) Black garments, especially worn in mourning.
  8. noun The sablefish.
  9. adjective Sable-coloured, black.
  10. adjective (heraldry) In blazon, of the colour black.
  11. adjective Made of sable fur.
  12. adjective Dark, somber.
  13. adjective (archaic, literary) Dark-skinned; Black.
  14. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

black dusky inky sooty swarthy sable brush sable's hair pencil coal black ebony jet black pitch black soot black Martes zibellina

Etymology

Attested since 1275, from Middle English sable, from Old French sable and martre sable (“sable marten”), in reference to the animal or its fur; from Medieval Latin sabelum, from Middle Low German sabel (compare Middle Dutch sabel, Middle High German zobel, whence German Zobel); ultimately from a Slavic word (compare Russian со́боль (sóbolʹ), Polish soból, Czech sobol). Compare also Middle Persian smwl (*samōr).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A carnivorous animal of the Weasel family (Mustela zibellina) native of the northern latitudes of Europe, Asia, and America, --noted for its fine, soft, and valuable fur.
  2. noun The fur of the sable.
  3. adjective Of the color of the sable's fur; dark; black; --used chiefly in poetry.
  4. verb To render sable or dark; to drape darkly or in black.

Etymology [OF. sable, F. zibeline sable (in sense 4), LL. sabellum; cf. D. sabel, Dan. sabel, zobel, Sw. sabel, sobel, G. zobel; all fr. Russ. sóbole.]

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

Sanskrit

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