affricate

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/

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Noun

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

affricate (plural affricates)

1. (phonetics) A sound produced using a combination of a plosive and a fricative.

   Synonym: affricative

   Hypernym: obstruent

Related terms

• friction

Translations

sound

• Arabic: صَامِت مَوْقُوف اِحْتِكَاكِيّ‎ m (ṣāmit mawqūf iḥtikākiyy), صَامِت مَزْجِيّ‎ m (ṣāmit mazjiyy)
• 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, 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

Verb

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

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

Derived terms

• affrication

Italian

Noun

affricate f

1. plural of affricata

Latin

Verb

affricāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of affricō