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.

dusky

/ˈdʌs.ki/ adjective, noun

Forms duskier duskiest duskies

adjective Dimly lit, as at dusk (evening). “I like it when it is dusky, just before the street lights come on.”
adjective Having a shade of color that is rather dark. “The dusky rose was of a muted color, not clashing with any of the other colors.”
adjective (dated, literary) Dark-skinned.
adjective Ashen; having a greyish skin coloration. “The patient was in shock and had a dusky skin tone.”
noun A dusky shark.
noun A dusky dolphin.
noun A dusky grouse.

Synonyms

From dusk + -y.

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

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

सधूम्र sa-dhūmra dusky, dark.
कपिशित kapiśita embrowned, made brown or dusky red.
श्यामायमान śyāmāyamāna growing dark or dusk, becoming dusky.
श्यामल śyāmala blackish, black, dark-blue, brownish, dusky; ( as ), m. black (the colour); black pepper; the sacred fig-tre…
श्याव śyāva or ī, am , brown, bay, of a brown or dark-brown colour, dark, dusky, livid; drawn by bay horses (said of cha…
कुलिक kulika of a good family, well-born; ( as ), m. a kinsman; the chief or head man of a tribe or caste; an artist or a…
श्याम śyāma black or dark-coloured, dark-blue, dark-brown, brown; dark-green, green; dark, shady, dusky; ( as ), m. blac…
शुक्तिस्पर्श śukti-sparśa dusky spots on a pearl (diminishing its value).