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Zahrah, Zehra, Sahra, Zara, Zarya, Zaira Zahra ( Arabic : زهراء) is a female given name and surname. Among Arabs , the name became popularized as a result of being the name of Muhammad ’s daughter, Fatimah al-Zahra .
The English Pronouncing Dictionary (EPD) was created by the British phonetician Daniel Jones and was first published in 1917. [1] It originally comprised over 50,000 headwords listed in their spelling form, each of which was given one or more pronunciations transcribed using a set of phonemic symbols based on a standard accent.
A few dictionaries, such as dictionary.com, use "/y/" for /j/, which is at odds with the official IPA usage, which defines /y/ as close front rounded vowel (as in French tu or German über), and appears as such in transcriptions of French and German, as well as some dialects of English.
Phonemic notation commonly uses IPA symbols that are rather close to the default pronunciation of a phoneme, but for legibility often uses simple and 'familiar' letters rather than precise notation, for example /r/ and /o/ for the English [ɹʷ] and [əʊ̯] sounds, or /c, ɟ/ for [t͜ʃ, d͜ʒ] as mentioned above.
The file contains lines of the format word[/part-of-speech] pronunciation. Each line is ended with the ASCII carriage return character (CR, '\r', 0x0D, 13 in decimal). The word field can include apostrophes (e.g. isn't), hyphens (e.g. able-bodied), and multiple words separated by underscores (e.g. monkey_wrench). Non-English words are generally ...
PronunDict, a pronunciation dictionary of American English, uses the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary as its data source. Pronunciation is transcribed in IPA symbols. This dictionary also supports searching by pronunciation. Some singing voice synthesizer software like CeVIO Creative Studio and Synthesizer V uses modified version of CMU Pronouncing ...
Al Zahra, neighborhood of Mecca, Saudi Arabia; Az Zahrah, village in San‘a’ Governorate, Yemen; Az Zuhrah District, in Al Hudaydah Governorate, Yemen; Al-Zahra', Palestinian municipality in the Gaza Governorate
Key to the Pronunciation, Oxford English Dictionary; The use of Phonetic and other Symbols in Dictionaries: A brief survey; Pronunciation key, the Free Dictionary; PhoTransEdit – English Phonetic Transcription Editor : PhoTransEdit is a free tool created to make typing phonetic transcriptions easier. It includes automatic phonemic ...