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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monk

/mʌŋk/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms monks monking monked moncke

  1. noun A male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service.
  2. noun In earlier usage, an eremite or hermit devoted to solitude, as opposed to a cenobite, who lived communally.
  3. noun (slang) Someone who leads an isolated life; a loner, a hermit.
  4. noun (slang) An unmarried man who does not have sexual relationships.
  5. noun (slang) A judge.
  6. noun (printing, archaic) An inkblot.
  7. noun A South American monkey (Pithecia monachus); also applied to other species, as Cebus xanthosternos.
  8. noun The bullfinch, common bullfinch, European bullfinch, or Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula).
  9. verb To be a monk.
  10. verb To act like a monk; especially to be contemplative.
  11. verb To monkey or meddle; to behave in a manner that is not systematic.
  12. verb To be intoxicated or confused.
  13. verb (transitive) To attach so that it sticks out.
  14. noun (colloquial) A monkey.
  15. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

monastic Thelonious Monk Thelonious Sphere Monk

Etymology

From Middle English monk, from Old English munuc, from Proto-West Germanic *munik, from Late Latin monicus, variant of monachus, from Ancient Greek μοναχός (monakhós, “single, solitary”), from μόνος (mónos, “alone”).

By shortening.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and poverty. "A monk out of his cloister." Chaucer.
  2. noun A blotch or spot of ink on a printed page, caused by the ink not being properly distributed. It is distinguished from a friar, or white spot caused by a deficiency of ink.

Etymology [AS. munuc, munec, munc, L. monachus, Gr. Monachism.]

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

Sanskrit

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