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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prophet

UK /ˈpɹɒf.ɪt/ · US /ˈpɹɑ.fɪt/ noun, proper noun

Forms prophets

  1. noun Someone who speaks by divine inspiration. “Muslims believe that Muhammad was the final prophet sent to mankind.”
  2. noun Someone who predicts the future; a soothsayer.
  3. proper noun (Christianity, Judaism) Any of the prophets mentioned in the Bible, especially an author of one of the Prophets.
  4. proper noun (Christianity, with "the") Jesus.
  5. proper noun (Islam, with "the") Muhammad.
  6. proper noun A surname

Synonyms

prophesier oracle seer vaticinator

Etymology

From Middle English prophete, from Anglo-Norman prophete, from Latin prophēta, from Ancient Greek προφήτης (prophḗtēs, “one who speaks for a god”), from πρό (pró, “before”) + φημί (phēmí, “to tell”). Displaced native Old English wītga.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who prophesies, or foretells events; a predicter; a foreteller.
  2. noun One inspired or instructed by God to speak in his name, or announce future events, as, Moses, Elijah, etc.

Etymology [F. prophète, L. propheta, fr. Gr. Fame.]

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

Sanskrit

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