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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rapture

UK /ˈɹæpt͡ʃəː/ · US /ˈɹæpt͡ʃɚ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms raptures rapturing raptured the Rapture

  1. noun Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement. “They went into raptures about the meal they'd had.”
  2. noun (obsolete) The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
  3. noun (obsolete) Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.
  4. noun (obsolete) The act of carrying, conveying, transporting or sweeping along by force of movement; the force of such movement; the fact of being carried along by such movement.
  5. noun A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
  6. verb (dated, transitive) To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.
  7. verb (dated, intransitive) To experience great happiness or excitement.
  8. verb (transitive) To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
  9. verb (rare, intransitive) To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
  10. verb (uncommon) To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.
  11. proper noun (Christianity) In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, a prophesied sudden removal of Christian believers from the Earth before the Tribulation or simultaneous with the second coming of Jesus Christ.

Synonyms

ecstasy transport exaltation raptus

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French rapture, from Latin raptūra, future active participle of rapiō (“snatch, carry off”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence.
  2. noun The state or condition of being rapt, or carried away from one's self by agreeable excitement; violence of a pleasing passion; extreme joy or pleasure; ecstasy.
  3. verb To transport with excitement; to enrapture. [Poetic] Thomson.

Etymology [L. rapere, raptum, to carry off by force. See Rapid.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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