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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.

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“Benares” is a form of

ben

/bɛn/ noun, preposition, adverb, adjective, proper noun

Forms bens benner benmost benar benat bene bin

  1. noun (obsolete) A prayer; a petition.
  2. preposition (Scotland, Northern England) In, into.
  3. adverb (Scotland, Northern England) Inside.
  4. adjective Inner, interior.
  5. noun (Scotland, Northern England) The inner room of a two-room cottage (as opposed to the but); the ben room.
  6. noun A tree, Moringa oleifera or horseradish tree of Arabia and India, which produces oil of ben.
  7. noun The winged seed of the ben tree.
  8. noun The oil of the ben seed.
  9. noun (usually capitalized) Son of (used with Hebrew and Arabic surnames).
  10. noun A Scottish or Irish mountain or high peak.
  11. noun (UK, theater, slang, obsolete) A benefit (performance to raise funds).
  12. proper noun A shortening of the male given name Benjamin or, less often, of Benedict.
  13. noun (US, slang) A US$100 bill, which bears a portrait of Benjamin Franklin. Often used in the plural form to indicate large sums of money.
  14. proper noun The capital city of Ben County, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran.
  15. proper noun A county of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran.

Synonyms

drumstick tree horseradish tree moringa Ben Franklin Benjamin Benjamin Franklin Franklin

Etymology

From Middle English ben, bene, from Old English bēn (“prayer, request, favor, compulsory service”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōni, from Proto-Germanic *bōniz (“supplication”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to say”). Related to ban. More at boon.

From Middle English ben, bene, variation of bin, binne (“within”), from Old English binnan (“within, in, inside of, into”), equivalent to be- + in.

From Middle English been, from Old French and Medieval Latin, probably from a North African pronunciation of Arabic بَان (bān, “ben tree”).

From Arabic بِن (bin) and Hebrew בן (ben, “son”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. The seed of one or more species of moringa; as, oil of ben. See Moringa.
  2. adverb Within; in; in or into the interior; toward the inner apartment. [Scot.]
  3. noun The inner or principal room in a hut or house of two rooms; --opposed to but, the outer apartment. [Scot.]
  4. noun An old form of the pl. indic. pr. of Be. [Obs.]

Etymology [Ar. ban, name of the tree.]

Etymology [AS. binnan; pref. be- by + innan within, in in.]

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