affricate

affricate - English

Pronunciation

IPA: (noun) /ˈæf.ɹɪ.kət/, /ˈæf.ɹɪ.keɪt/, /ˈæf.ɹə.kət/, /ˈæf.ɹə.keɪt/
IPA: (verb) /ˈæf.ɹɪ.keɪt/, /ˈæf.ɹə.keɪt/

Noun

Examples (English)
/t͡ʃ/ in catch /d͡ʒ/ in jury

affricate (plural affricates)

(phonetics) A sound produced using a combination of a plosive and a fricative.
- Synonym: affricative
- Hypernym: obstruent

Related terms

friction

Translations

Armenian: պայթաշփական (hy) (paytʿašpʿakan), հպաշփական (hpašpʿakan)
Catalan: africada (ca) f
Chinese:
- Mandarin: 塞擦音 (sècāyīn), 破擦音 (zh) (pòcāyīn), 破裂摩擦音 (zh) (pòliè mócāyīn)
Czech: afrikáta (cs) f
Dutch: affricaat (nl)
Esperanto: afrikato
Estonian: afrikaad
Finnish: affrikaatta (fi)
French: affriquée (fr) f
German: Affrikata f, Affrikate (de) f
Greek: προστριβόμενο n (prostrivómeno)
Hungarian: affrikáta (hu), zár-rés hang (hu)
Irish: aifricéad m
Italian: affricata (it) f
Japanese: 破擦音 (はさつおん, hasatsuon)
Korean: 파찰음(破擦音) (ko) (pachareum)
Navajo: ahídeiłjah
Persian: انسایشی‎ (ensâyeši)
Polish: afrykata (pl) f, spółgłoska zwarto-szczelinowa f
Portuguese: africada f
Russian: аффрика́та (ru) f (affrikáta)
Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: африка́та f, сливѐнӣк m
- Roman: afrikáta (sh) f, slivènīk (sh) m
Spanish: africada (es) f
Swedish: affrikata (sv) c
Welsh: cytsain affrithiol f

Verb

affricate (third-person singular simple present affricates, present participle affricating, simple past and past participle affricated)

(transitive) To produce (a plosive) as an affricate.

Derived terms

affrication

affricate - Italian

Noun

affricate f

plural of affricata

affricate - Latin

Verb

affricāte

second-person plural present active imperative of affricō