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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“lambs” is a form of

lamb

/ˈlæm/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms lambs lamber lambren lambing lambed the Lamb

  1. noun A young sheep; especially, one younger than nine months. “Mary had a little lamb, its fleece as white as snow.”
  2. noun (obsolete) A young goat; a kid.
  3. noun (uncountable) The flesh of a lamb used as food; (sometimes loosely) the flesh of a sheep of any age used as food.
  4. noun (figuratively) A person who is meek, docile, and easily led.
  5. noun Lambskin.
  6. noun A simple, unsophisticated person.
  7. noun (finance, slang) One who ignorantly speculates on the stock exchange and is victimized.
  8. noun (slang) A fan of American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer Mariah Carey (born 1969).
  9. verb (intransitive) Of a sheep, to give birth.
  10. verb (transitive or intransitive) To assist (sheep) to give birth. “The shepherd was up all night, lambing her young ewes.”
  11. proper noun A surname from Middle English.
  12. proper noun An unincorporated community in Craig Township, Switzerland County, Indiana, United States.
  13. proper noun An extinct town in Marion County, Missouri, United States.
  14. proper noun An islet (small island) in the Firth of Forth, East Lothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT5386).
  15. proper noun (Christianity) Jesus; the Lamb of God
  16. proper noun (Christianity) The constellation and zodiacal sign Aries.

Synonyms

sheepling sheep Paschal Lamb Lamb of God Agnus Dei Charles Lamb Elia dear

Etymology

From Middle English lamb, from Old English lamb, from Proto-West Germanic *lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz, probably from Proto-Indo-European *h₁l̥h₁onbʰos, enlargement of *h₁elh₁én, ultimately from *h₁el-.
See also Dutch lam, German Lamm, Bavarian Lamperl, Danish lam, Swedish lamm, Finnish lammas, Scottish Gaelic lon (“elk”), Ancient Greek ἔλαφος (élaphos, “red deer”). More at elk.

1. From Middle English lamb as a nickname.
2. From a short form of Lambert.
3. Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Luain.
4. Possibly also a translation of French agneau.

See Lamb of God. See also lamb.

See lamb.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The young of the sheep.
  2. noun Any person who is as innocent or gentle as a lamb.
  3. verb To bring forth a lamb or lambs, as sheep.

Etymology [AS. lamb; akin to D. & Dan. lam, G. & Sw. lamm, OS., Goth., & Icel. lamb.]

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

Sanskrit

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