English - Turkish
Definition of schwa in English Turkish dictionary
- (Dilbilim) vurgusuz ünlü (ses)
- (Dilbilim) doğal ünlü
English - English
Definition of schwa in English English dictionary
- The character ə, an upside-down lower-case E
- An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "about", represented as /ə/ in IPA and /@/ in SAMPA and X-SAMPA
- The inverted e used to symbolized a relaxed vowel sound which is neither short nor long
- In the study of language, schwa is the name of the neutral vowel sound represented by the symbol ə in this dictionary
- {i} unstressed vowel sound (represented phonetically by a backwards and upside-down "e")
- The letter É™, an upside-down lower-case E, used to represent such a sound
- An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "about" or the "e" in "the", represented as É™ in IPA and @ in SAMPA and X-SAMPA
- a neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables
- schwas
- plural of schwa
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[ 'shwä ] (noun.) 1895. German Schwa, from Hebrew שְׁוָא (š’vā), meaning "nought".Resimler
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