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Zahra Alzubaidi, Iraqi film actress and musician; Khalub Zahra, was the mother of the 10th-century caliph of Baghdad al-Muttaqi (r. 940–944). Zahra Amir Ebrahimi (born 1981), Iranian television actress; Zahra Bahrami (c. 1965–2011), Dutch/Iranian executed for drug trafficking; Zahra Baker, Australian murder victim
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs , which are written differently but pronounced the same).
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of English on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of English in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) can be used to represent sound correspondences among various accents and dialects of the English language.. These charts give a diaphoneme for each sound, followed by its realization in different dialects.
The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary suggests the first pronunciation. Similarly, this pronunciation markup guide will choose the most widely used form. NOTE: This guide is designed to be simple and easy to use. This can only be achieved by giving up scope and freedom from occasional ambiguity.
The following table shows the 24 consonant phonemes found in most dialects of English, plus /x/, whose distribution is more limited. Fortis consonants are always voiceless, aspirated in syllable onset (except in clusters beginning with /s/ or /ʃ/), and sometimes also glottalized to an extent in syllable coda (most likely to occur with /t/, see T-glottalization), while lenis consonants are ...
al-Zahra al-Jadeeda, neighborhood in Damascus, Syria; Buin Zahra, city in Iran; Medina Azahara city ruins, (Arabic: Madīnat az-Zahrā) in Córdoba (Spain) Sarah (disambiguation) Sahra, track and album by Algerian musician Khaled; Zahra's Paradise, political webcomic set in modern Iran; Zahra's Blue Eyes, Iranian television series
This chart provides audio examples for phonetic vowel symbols. The symbols shown include those in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and added material. The chart is based on the official IPA vowel chart.