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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

barb

/bɑː(ɹ)b/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms barbs barbing barbed Barbz

  1. noun The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.
  2. noun (figuratively) A hurtful or disparaging remark. “to trade barbs”
  3. noun A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.
  4. noun A barbel on a fish's face.
  5. noun (ornithology) One of the many side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane.
  6. noun (ichthyology) Any of various species of freshwater carp-like fish that have barbels and belong to the cyprinid family.
  7. noun (US) The sciaenid fish Menticirrhus americanus, found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States.
  8. noun (botany) A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.
  9. verb To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc.
  10. verb (Nigeria) To cut (hair).
  11. verb (obsolete) To shave or dress the beard of.
  12. verb (obsolete) To clip; to mow.
  13. noun The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors.
  14. noun A blackish or dun variety of pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.
  15. noun (informal, pharmacology) A barbiturate.
  16. noun Armor for a horse.
  17. verb To cover a horse in armor.
  18. proper noun A diminutive of the female given name Barbara.
  19. proper noun A surname.
  20. noun (slang) A fan of American rapper and singer Nicki Minaj.

Synonyms

barbel Carolina whiting king whiting southern kingcroaker southern kingfish barble shot shaft slam dig jibe gibe

Etymology

From Middle English barbe, from Middle French barbe, from Old French barbe (“beard, beard-like element”). Doublet of beard.

Clipping of Barbary.

Clipping of barbiturate.

Corruption of bard.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it. The barbel, so called by reason of his barbs, or wattles in his mouth. Walton.
  2. noun A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners. [Obs.]
  3. verb To shave or dress the beard of. [Obs.]
  4. verb To clip; to mow. [Obs.] Marston.

Etymology [F. barbe, fr. L. barba beard. See Beard, n.]

Etymology [F. barbe, fr. Barbarie.]

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

Sanskrit

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