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

barrack

/ˈbæɹ.ək/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms barracks barracking barracked

  1. noun (military, chiefly in the plural) A building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; originally referred to temporary huts, now usually to a permanent structure or set of buildings.
  2. noun (chiefly in the plural) A primitive structure resembling a long shed or barn for (usually temporary) housing or other purposes.
  3. noun (by extension, chiefly in the plural) Any very plain, monotonous, or ugly large building.
  4. noun (US) A (structure with a) movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc.
  5. noun (Ireland, colloquial, usually in the plural) A police station.
  6. verb (transitive) To house military personnel; to quarter.
  7. verb (intransitive) To live in barracks.
  8. verb (UK, transitive) To jeer and heckle; to attempt to disconcert by verbal means.
  9. verb (Australia, New Zealand, intransitive) To cheer for or support a team.
  10. proper noun A surname.
  11. proper noun A male given name from Arabic.

Synonyms

badger jeer tease make fun of gird heckle roast taunt cheer root for acclaim acclamate applaud hail beclap cheer on clap encheer hurrah hurray root on inspire urge urge on exhort pep up scoff flout gibe

Etymology

Borrowed from French baraque, from Spanish barraca or Catalan barraca, which is of uncertain origin. It is probably either a diminutive of Vulgar Latin *barra (“bar”), of unclear origin, or a diminutive of Vulgar Latin *barrum (“clay, mud”) from Celtiberian or Paleo-Hispanic.

Scottish habitational surname.

Variant of Barack.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A building for soldiers, especially when in garrison. Commonly in the pl., originally meaning temporary huts, but now usually applied to a permanent structure or set of buildings.
  2. noun A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc. [Local, U.S.]
  3. verb To supply with barracks; to establish in barracks; as, to barrack troops.
  4. verb To live or lodge in barracks.

Etymology [F. baraque, fr. It. baracca (cf. Sp. barraca), from LL. barra bar. See Bar, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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