Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

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)

-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.

strum

/strʌm/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms strums strumming strummed

verb (ambitransitive) To play (a guitar or other stringed instrument) by plucking various strings simultaneously.
noun The sound made by playing various strings of a stringed instrument simultaneously. “hear the strum of a guitar”
noun The act of strumming. “give the banjo a little strum”
proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

Variant of thrum.

verb To play on an instrument of music, or as on an instrument, in an unskillful or noisy way; to thrum; as, to strum a piano.

Etymology [Probably of imitative origin. Cf. Thrum.]

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

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

यक्षराज् yakṣa-rāj ‘king of the Yakṣas,’ name of Kuvera; of Maṇi-bhadra; a palæstrum or place prepared for wrestling and boxing.