Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iː	see	ɪ	sit	e / ɛ	bed	æ	cat
ɑː	father	ɒ	hot (UK)	ɔː	law	ʊ	put
uː	too	ʌ	cup	ɜː	bird	ə	about
eɪ	day	aɪ	my	ɔɪ	boy	aʊ	now
əʊ / oʊ	go (UK / US)	ɪə	near	eə	hair	ʊə	tour

Consonants that look unusual

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.

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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emancipation

/ɪˌmæn.səˈpeɪ.ʃən/ noun

Forms emancipations

noun The act of setting free from the power of another, as from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence.
noun The state of being thus set free; liberation (used, for example, of slaves from bondage, of a person from prejudices, of the mind from superstition, of a nation from tyranny or subjugation). “US President Abraham Lincoln was called the Great Emancipator after issuing the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.”

Synonyms

manumission

Etymology

1630, from French émancipation, from Latin ēmancipātiō. In the US, with reference to anti-slavery, abolitionism, first used in 1785 by Charles Godfrey Leland. In Britain, with reference to easing of restrictions on Catholics, in 19th century.

Webster’s 1913

noun The act of setting free from the power of another, from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence; also, the state of being thus set free; liberation; as, the emancipation of slaves; the emancipation of minors; the emancipation of a person from prejudices; the emancipation of the mind from superstition; the emancipation of a nation from tyranny or subjection.

Etymology [L. emancipatio: cf. F. émancipation.]

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

Sanskrit

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

मुमुक्षत् mumukṣat desiring emancipation.
अनावृत्ति an-āvṛtti non-return; final emancipation.
प्रतिमोक्षण prati-mokṣaṇa liberation, deliverance; emancipation.
मुमुक्षा mumukṣā desire of liberation or final emancipation.
मोक्षिन् mokṣin striving after emancipation; emancipated, redeemed.
प्रतिमोक्ष prati-mokṣa liberation, deliverance; (with Buddhists) emancipation.
अनावर्ति an-āvarti non-return, i.e. final emancipation. See an-āvṛt below.
अपसर्जन apa-sarjana abandonment; gift or donation; final emancipation of the soul.

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