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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batman

/ˈbæt.mən/ noun, verb, proper noun, interjection

Forms batmen batmans batmanning batmanned

  1. noun (military) A servant or valet to a military officer.
  2. noun (by extension, informal) A personal assistant or supporter.
  3. verb To act as a batman, wait on an officer.
  4. noun (Turkish units of measure) A unit of weight established in 1931 equal to 10 kg.
  5. noun (historical units of measure) A Turkish unit of weight varying by location, time, and item from 2–8 okas (about 2.5–10 kg).
  6. noun Coelostathma discopunctana, a moth of Eastern North America.
  7. verb (slang, climbing) To climb up or down a rope free hand (i.e. as Batman does).
  8. proper noun A province in the Black Sea region, in northern Turkey.
  9. proper noun A district of Batman Province, Turkey.
  10. proper noun A municipality, the capital city of Batman district and Batman Province, Turkey.
  11. proper noun A surname.
  12. proper noun A fictional hero and the main protagonist of DC Comics, noted for his intellect and stealth, who uses a bat-themed costume and equipment (including a belt with an array of utilities) and is assisted by his sidekick Robin.
  13. interjection An intensifier for interjections created with the adjective holy, in imitation of dialogue between Batman and his sidekick Robin. “Holy guacamole, Batman!”

Synonyms

orderly man maund

Etymology

From bat (“packsaddle”) + man. The element bat is from French bât, from Old French bast, from Late Latin bastum, possibly from Ancient Greek βαστάζω (bastázō, “to bear, carry, lift”).

From Ottoman Turkish بطمان (batman). Cognate with Chagatai [script needed] (bātmān).

In reference to the superhero Batman.

Named after the nearby river Batman River. The name of the city and the province are derived from it. See Ottoman Turkish باطمان (Batman) for more information.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds.
  2. noun A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load. Macaulay.

Etymology [Turk. batman.]

Etymology [F. b packsaddle + E. man. Cf. Bathorse.]

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