Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

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)

-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.

twinkling

/ˈtwɪŋklɪŋ/ adjective, noun

Also a form of twinkle

Forms twinklings

adjective Sparkling intermittently.
noun A shining with fast intermittent light.
noun A very short period, notionally the time it takes to blink the eyes. “The housework was done in a twinkling.”

Synonyms

From Middle English twynkelynge, equivalent to twinkle + -ing.

From Middle English twynkelyng, twynkelynge, equivalent to twinkle + -ing.

noun The act of one who, or of that which, twinkles; a quick movement of the eye; a wink; a twinkle. Holland.
noun A shining with intermitted light; a scintillation; a sparkling; as, the twinkling of the stars.

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

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

निर्निमेष nir-nimeṣa not twinkling.
श्मीलन śmīlana winking; twinkling.
निमेषण ni-meṣaṇa causing twinkling etc.
निमेषक ni-meṣaka twinkling of the eye; a fire-fly.
मीलत् mīlat closing (as the eyes); winking, twinkling.
विनिमेष vi-nimeṣa winking or twinkling of the eyes, a wink, sign.
निमीलत् ni-mīlat closing the eyes, winking the eyelids, twinkling.
निमीलिका ni-mīlikā shutting the eyes, winking, twinkling, blinking, conniving at anything; fraud, trick.