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affricate

affricate

English

Noun

affricate ‎(plural affricates)

(phonetics) A sound produced using a combination of a plosive and a fricative. English sounds /t͡ʃ/ (catch) and /d͡ʒ/ (jury) are examples.

Synonyms

affricative

Translations

a sound produced using a combination of a plosive and a fricative

Armenian: պայթաշփական (hy) ‎(paytʿašpʿakan), հպաշփական ‎(hpašpʿakan)
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)
Finnish: affrikaatta (fi)
French: affriquée (fr) f
German: Affrikata f, Affrikate (de) f
Irish: aifricéad m
Italian: affricata f

Japanese: 破擦音 ‎(はさつおん, hasatsu-on)
Korean: ^{(please verify)}파찰음 (ko) ‎(破擦音, pachaleum)
Navajo: ahídeiłjah
Polish: afrykata 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

Derived terms

affrication

Italian

Noun

affricate f

plural of affricata

Latin

Verb

affricāte

first-person plural present active imperative of affricō