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

“rumbles” is a form of

rumble

/ˈɹʌmb(ə)l/ noun, verb, interjection, proper noun

Forms rumbles rumbling rumbled rummle rommle

  1. noun A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach. “The rumble from passing trucks made it hard to sleep at night.”
  2. noun (slang) A street fight or brawl.
  3. noun A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
  4. noun (dated) A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.
  5. verb (intransitive) To make a low, heavy, continuous sound. “If I don't eat, my stomach will rumble.”
  6. verb (transitive) To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour. “The police is going to rumble your hideout.”
  7. verb (intransitive) To move while making a rumbling noise. “The truck rumbled over the rough road.”
  8. verb (slang, intransitive) To fight; to brawl.
  9. verb (video games, intransitive, of a game controller) To provide haptic feedback by vibrating.
  10. verb (transitive) To cause to pass through a rumble, or polishing machine.
  11. verb (obsolete, intransitive) To murmur; to ripple.
  12. interjection An onomatopoeia describing a rumbling noise
  13. proper noun A surname.
  14. proper noun An unincorporated community in Pike County, Indiana, United States.
  15. proper noun An unincorporated community in Boone County, West Virginia, United States.

Synonyms

beating drumming grumbling rataplan rubadub rumbling grumble gang fight growl

Antonyms

snap

Etymology

From Middle English rumblen, romblen, rummelyn, frequentative form of romen (“to roar”), equivalent to rome + -le. Cognate with Dutch rommelen (“to rumble”), Low German rummeln (“to rumble”), German rumpeln (“to be noisy”), Danish rumle (“to rumble”), all of imitative origin.
Compare typologically Russian громи́ть (gromítʹ), погро́м (pogróm), разгро́м (razgróm) (akin to гром (grom), греме́ть (gremétʹ), громыха́ть (gromyxátʹ)). Also compare гро́хнуть (gróxnutʹ) (akin to гро́хот (gróxot)).

A variant of Rumbold, Rumbel or Rumpel.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To make a low, heavy, continued sound; as, the thunder rumbles at a distance.
  2. verb To murmur; to ripple.
  3. noun A noisy report; rumor. [Obs.]
  4. noun A low, heavy, continuous sound like that made by heavy wagons or the reverberation of thunder; a confused noise; as, the rumble of a railboard train.

Etymology [OE. romblen, akin to D. rommeln, G. rumpeln, Dan. rumle; cf. Icel. rumja to roar.]

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

Sanskrit

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