sibilant

Etymology
From, present active participle of.

Adjective

 * 1) Characterized by a hissing or hushing sound such as the s or sh in sack or shack.

Translations

 * Arabic: صَفِيرِيّ
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani: sibilyant
 * Bulgarian:, шипящ
 * Czech: sykavý
 * Finnish: suhiseva, sihisevä, sihauttava
 * French: ,
 * Greek:
 * Irish: siosach
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Maori: hihī
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:,  , свистя́ще-шипя́щий
 * Spanish: sibilante
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: шиплячий, свистячий
 * Welsh: sisiol

Noun

 * 1)  A consonant having a hissing or hushing sound such as the s or sh in sack or shack.

Translations

 * Arabic: حَرْفُ صَفِير
 * Armenian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 絲絲聲, 咝咝声, 嘶擦音
 * Czech: sykavka
 * Danish: sibilant, hvislelyd
 * Dutch:, sibilant
 * Finnish:, suhuäänne
 * French:
 * German:, Sibilans,
 * Irish: siosach
 * Japanese:, 歯擦音
 * Maori: hihī
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: hvislelyd,
 * Nynorsk: kvislelyd, sibilant
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,  , свистя́ще-шипя́щий
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: сибѝлант, пи̏скавац
 * Roman: ,
 * Spanish: sibilante
 * Swedish: väsljud,
 * Welsh: sisiolyn

Noun

 * 1) sibilant

Adjective

 * 1) ; hissing

Etymology
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