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.

cubit

UK /ˈkjuː.bɪt/ · US /ˈkju.bɪt/ noun, proper noun

Forms cubits

noun The distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger used as an informal unit of length.
noun (historical) Any of various units of length approximating this distance, usually around 35–60 cm.
noun (anatomy, archaic) Synonym of ulna, the bone of the human forearm.
proper noun A surname transferred from the nickname.

Synonyms

From Middle English cubite, from Latin cubitum (“elbow, cubit”). Doublet of cubitus, covado, and codo.

From Middle English cubite (“cubit; elbow”), probably applied as a nickname for someone with strong or remarkable forearms.

noun The forearm; the ulna, a bone of the arm extending from elbow to wrist. [Obs.]
noun A measure of length, being the distance from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger.

Etymology [L. cubitum, cubitus; elbow, ell, cubit, fr. (because the elbow serves focubare to lie down, recline; cf. Gr. Incumbent, Covey.]

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

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

सरत्नि saratni a kind of cubit measure ( = ratni ); a short cubit (according to some).
अरत्नि aratni the elbow, a corner; a cubit of the middle length, from the elbow to tip of the little finger, a fist.
रत्नि ratni (a corrupted form of aratni ), the elbow; a measure of length (= the distance from the elbow to the end of t…
किष्कु kiṣku vile, bad, contemptible; ( us ), m. f. the fore-arm, a cubit, a span; an instrument for measuring lengths = …
अङ्गुल aṅgula a finger; the thumb; a finger's breadth, a measure equal to eight barley-corns, twelve aṅgulas making a vita…
काकिणी kākiṇī a small coin, a small sum of money equal to twenty Kapardas or cowries, or to a quarter of a Paṇa; the seed …
हस्त hasta the hand; the thirteenth asterism, (see below); the fore-arm, cubit; a measure of length from the elbow to t…
हस्तमात्र hasta-mātra a cubit in length, (see mātra. )