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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

ara

/ˈeɪ.ɹə/ noun, proper noun, adjective

Forms aras arag arra

  1. noun The great blue and yellow macaw (Ara ararauna).
  2. noun A traditional alcoholic beverage consumed in Bhutan, made from rice, maize, millet, or wheat, either fermented or distilled. The beverage is usually a clear, creamy, or white color.
  3. noun A saw-edged perch (Niphon spinosus).
  4. proper noun (nautical, military) the Argentine Navy (Armada de la República Argentina)
  5. adjective (nautical, military, initialism) ship's prefix for warships of the Argentinian navy.
  6. proper noun (astronomy) A constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble an altar.
  7. proper noun A barangay of Benito Soliven, Isabela, Philippines.
  8. proper noun A male given name from Armenian.
  9. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

blue-and-yellow macaw blue-and-gold macaw genus Ara

Etymology

Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Ara.

Borrowing from Dzongkha ཨ་རག་ (a rag), ultimately from Arabic عرق (ʕaraq). Doublet of arak.

From Japanese あら (ara).

Borrowed from Spanish ARA.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The Altar; a southern constellation, south of the tail of the Scorpion.
  2. noun A name of the great blue and yellow macaw (Ara ararauna), native of South America.

Etymology [L.]

Etymology [Native Indian name.]

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