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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tabor

/ˈteɪbə(ɹ)/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms tabors taboring tabored Thabor

  1. noun (music) A small drum.
  2. noun In traditional music, a small drum played with a single stick, leaving the player's other hand free to play a melody on a three-holed pipe.
  3. verb (transitive) To make (a sound) with a tabor.
  4. verb To strike lightly and frequently.
  5. noun A military train of men and wagons; an encampment of such resources.
  6. proper noun Tábor (a city in the Czech Republic).
  7. proper noun A city in Slovenia.
  8. proper noun A village in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland.
  9. proper noun A locality in the Shire of Southern Grampians, Victoria, Australia, named after Tábor in Bohemia.
  10. proper noun An unincorporated community in DeWitt County, Illinois.
  11. proper noun A minor city in Fremont County and Mills County, Iowa.
  12. proper noun A township and unincorporated community therein, in Polk County, Minnesota, derived from Tábor.
  13. proper noun A town in Bon Homme County, South Dakota, from Tábor.
  14. proper noun A mountain in Israel, Mount Tabor
  15. proper noun (Christianity, metonymic) The Transfiguration of Jesus “the light of Tabor”

Synonyms

tabour

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French tabour, from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr), ultimately from the Middle Persian ancestor of Classical Persian تنبور (tanbūr). Doublet of tambour and tanbur.

From various Slavic languages, from a Turkic language. Compare Ottoman Turkish طابور (tabur).

From German Tabor, from Czech tábor (“camp”).

From Biblical Hebrew תָּבוֹר (Tāḇôr), of uncertain origin.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both being played by the same person. [Written also tabour, and taber.]
  2. verb To play on a tabor, or little drum.
  3. verb To strike lightly and frequently.
  4. verb To make (a sound) with a tabor.

Etymology [OF. tabor, tabour, F. tambour; cf. Pr. tabor, tanbor, Sp. & Pg. tambor, atambor, It. tamburo; all fr. Ar. & Per. tamb a kind of lute, or giutar, or Per. tabir a drum. Cf. Tabouret, Tambour.]

Etymology [Cf. OF. taborer.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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