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

umbrella

/ʌmˈbɹɛl.ə/ noun, verb

Forms umbrellas umbrellaing umbrellaed brella humbrella ombrella umbrello umbreller

  1. noun A cloth-covered frame used for protection against rain or sun. “Quick, grab that umbrella before you get rained on!”
  2. noun (figurative) Anything that provides similar protection. “The fighters provide a defensive air umbrella over the battle group.”
  3. noun (figurative) Anything that provides similar overarching coverage of a range of concepts, purposes, groups, etc. “The test facility was established under the umbrella of the company's quality program.”
  4. noun (ice hockey) A strategy in which five players in the offensive zone form an umbrella-shaped formation around the opposition's goal net.
  5. noun The main body of a jellyfish, excluding the tentacles. “Jellyfish are composed of more than 90% water and most of their umbrella mass is made up of gelatinous material.”
  6. noun (photography, television) An umbrella-shaped reflector with a white or silvery inner surface, used to diffuse a nearby light.
  7. verb (transitive) To cover or protect, as if by an umbrella.
  8. verb (intransitive) To form the dome shape of an open umbrella.
  9. verb (intransitive) To move like a jellyfish.

Synonyms

brelly chatta chatra rainshade parapluie gamp bumbershoot umbershoot rain napper

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian ombrella (“parasol, sunshade”), from Late Latin umbrella (influenced by umbra (“shadow, shade”)), from Latin umbella, from umbra + -la (diminutive suffix).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A shade, screen, or guard, carried in the hand for sheltering the person from the rays of the sun, or from rain or snow. It is formed of silk, cotton, or other fabric, extended on strips of whalebone, steel, or other elastic material, inserted, or fastened to, a rod or stick by means of pivots or hinges, in such a way as to allow of being opened and closed with ease. See Parasol.
  2. noun The umbrellalike disk, or swimming bell, of a jellyfish.

Etymology [It. umbrella, fr. ombra a shade, L. umbra; cf. L. umbella a sunshade, a parasol. Cf. Umbel, Umbrage.]

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

Sanskrit

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