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plosive

plosive

English

Noun

plosive ‎(plural plosives)

(phonetics) Sound produced from opening a previously closed oral passage; for example, when pronouncing the sound /p/ in "pug".

Synonyms

stop, occlusive

Related terms

plosion

Translations

consonant

Armenian: պայթական (hy) ‎(paytʿakan), հպական (hy) ‎(hpakan)
Catalan: oclusiva f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 塞音 (zh) ‎(sèyīn, sàiyīn)
Czech: exploziva f, okluziva f
Dutch: occlusief (nl), plosief (nl), plofklank (nl)
Finnish: klusiili (fi)
French: occlusif (fr) m
German: Plosiv (de) m
Icelandic: lokhljóð (is) n
Italian: occlusiva f

Japanese: 破裂音 ‎(はれつおん, haretsuon)
Portuguese: oclusiva f, plosiva f
Romanian: oclusivă (ro) f
Russian: взрывно́й (ru) m ‎(vzryvnój) (звук), смы́чный (ru) ‎(smýčnyj) (obstruent)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: експло̀зӣв m, запорник m

Roman: eksplòzīv (sh) m, zapornik (sh) m
Slovene: zapórnik (sl) m
Spanish: oclusiva (es) f
Swedish: klusil (sv)

Adjective

plosive ‎(comparative more plosive, superlative most plosive)

(phonetics) Produced in this way.

Derived terms

French

Noun

plosive f ‎(plural plosives)

plosive

Adjective

plosive

feminine singular of plosif