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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smoking

UK /ˈsməʊkɪŋ/ · US /ˈsmoʊkɪŋ/ adjective, noun

Also a form of smoke

Forms smokings

  1. adjective Giving off smoke.
  2. adjective (slang) Sexually attractive, usually referring to a woman. “That woman is smoking!”
  3. adjective (slang) Showing great skill or talent. “The band put on a smoking performance.”
  4. noun The act or process of emitting smoke.
  5. noun The burning and inhalation of any drug, including tobacco, cannabis, cocaine, and others.
  6. noun (usually) The burning and inhalation of tobacco. “Smoking can lead to lung cancer.”
  7. noun (especially) The burning and inhalation of cigarettes.
  8. noun The act of exposing (something) to smoke; (by extension) the process by which foods are cured or flavored by smoke.
  9. noun (slang, obsolete) A bantering; teasing; mockery.

Synonyms

smoke

Etymology

From Middle English smokynge, smokiende, from Old English smociende (“smoking”), from Proto-Germanic *smukōndz (“emitting smoke, smoking”), equivalent to smoke + -ing.

From Middle English smokyng, smokynge, equivalent to smoke + -ing.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective from Smoke. Smoking bean (Bot.), the long pod of the catalpa, or Indian-bean tree, often smoked by boys as a substitute for cigars.

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

Sanskrit

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