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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par

UK /pɑː/ · US /pɑɹ/ preposition, noun, verb, proper noun

Forms pars parring parred

  1. preposition (in compounds) By; with.
  2. noun Equal value; equality of nominal and actual value; the value expressed on the face or in the words of a certificate of value, as a bond or other commercial paper.
  3. noun Equality of condition or circumstances.
  4. noun (golf, mostly uncountable) The allotted number of strokes to reach the hole. “He needs to make this shot for par.”
  5. noun (golf, countable) A hole in which a player achieves par.
  6. noun (UK) An amount which is taken as an average or mean.
  7. verb (transitive, golf) To reach the hole in the allotted number of strokes. “He will need to par every hole in order to win this game.”
  8. verb (MLE, MTE) To associate, to chill, to hang.
  9. proper noun A village and beach in Tywardreath and Par parish, east of St Austell, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX0753).

Synonyms

equality equivalence equation

Etymology

Borrowed from French par (“through, by”), from Latin per (“through”). Doublet of per.

Borrowed from Latin pār (“equal”).

Borrowed from Jamaican Creole, itself from partner.

Abbreviations

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun See Parr.
  2. preposition By; with; --used frequently in Early English in phrases taken from the French, being sometimes written as a part of the word which it governs; as, par amour, or paramour; par cas, or parcase; par fay, or parfay.
  3. noun Equal value; equality of nominal and actual value; the value expressed on the face or in the words of a certificate of value, as a bond or other commercial paper.
  4. noun Equality of condition or circumstances. At par, at the original price; neither at a discount nor at a premium.

Etymology [F., fr. L. per. See Per.]

Etymology [L. par, adj., equal. See Peer an equal.]

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

Sanskrit

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