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English
Etymology
From Latin affricātus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (noun) /ˈæf.ɹɪ.kət/, /ˈæf.ɹɪ.keɪt/, /ˈæf.ɹə.kət/, /ˈæf.ɹə.keɪt/
- IPA(key): (verb) /ˈæf.ɹɪ.keɪt/, /ˈæf.ɹə.keɪt/
Noun
affricate (plural affricates)
- (phonetics) A sound produced using a combination of a plosive and a fricative.
- Synonym: affricative
- Hypernym: obstruent
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Translations
sound
- Arabic: صَامِت مَوْقُوف اِحْتِكَاكِيّ m (ṣāmit mawqūf iḥtikākiyy), صَامِت مَزْجِيّ m (ṣāmit mazjiyy)
- Armenian: պայթաշփական (hy) (paytʻašpʻakan), հպաշփական (hpašpʻakan)
- Catalan: africada (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 塞擦音 (zh) (sècāyīn), 破擦音 (zh) (pòcāyīn), 破裂摩擦音 (zh) (pòliè mócāyīn)
- Czech: afrikáta (cs) f, poloražená souhláska f
- Dutch: affricaat (nl)
- Esperanto: afrikato
- Estonian: afrikaad
- Finnish: affrikaatta (fi)
- French: affriquée (fr) f
- German: Affrikata f, Affrikate (de) f, Verschlussreibelaut m
- 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
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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
Italian
Noun
affricate f
- plural of affricata
Latin
Verb
affricāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of affricō