FromLatin sībilāns sībilō ( “ I hiss ” ) .
sibilant (comparative moresibilant ,superlative mostsibilant )
Characterized by ahissing orhushing sound such as thes orsh insack orshack .1960 July 11,Harper Lee ,To Kill a Mockingbird J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company ,→OCLC She had a curious habit of prefacing everything she said with a softsibilant sound.
characterized by a hissing sound
Arabic:صَفِيرِيّ m ( ṣafīriyy ) Armenian:շչական (hy) ( ščʻakan ) ,սուլական (hy) ( sulakan ) Azerbaijani:sibilyant Bulgarian:съскащ (bg) ( sǎskašt ) ,шипящ ( šipjašt ) Czech:sykavý Finnish:suhiseva sihisevä (fi) ,sihauttava French:sifflant (fr) m sifflante (fr) f Galician:sibilante Greek:συριστικός (el) ( syristikós ) Irish:siosach Latvian:please add this translation if you can Lithuanian:please add this translation if you can Maori:hihī Portuguese:sibilante (pt) Romanian:sibilant (ro) Russian:свистя́щий (ru) ( svistjáščij ) ( "whistling", for "s", "z" ) ,шипя́щий (ru) ( šipjáščij ) ( "sizzling", for "sh", "zh" ) ,свистя́ще-шипя́щий ( svistjášče-šipjáščij ) Spanish:sibilante Swedish:väsande (sv) Ukrainian:шиплячий m ( šypljačyj ) ,свистячий m ( svystjačyj ) Welsh:sisiol
sibilant (plural sibilants
( phonetics ) hissing orhushing sound such as thes orsh insack orshack .Synonym: groove fricative Hypernym: fricative 1955 An Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics , page 194, section 14.7:Groove fricatives all have more or less of an [s]-like quality, and are for this reason sometimes calledsibilants .
phonetics: a hissing sound
Arabic:حَرْفُ صَفِير m ( ḥarfu ṣafīr ) Armenian:շչական (hy) ( ščʻakan ) ,սուլական (hy) ( sulakan ) Chinese:Mandarin:絲絲聲 / 丝丝声 咝咝声 ( sīsīshēng ) ,嘶擦音 ( sīcāyīn ) Czech:sykavka f Danish:sibilant c hvislelyd c Dutch:sisklank (nl) c sibilant c Finnish:sibilantti (fi) ,suhuäänne French:sifflante (fr) f Galician:sibilante f German:Zischlaut (de) m Sibilans f Sibilant (de) m Irish:siosach m Japanese:歯音 (ja) ( しおん, shion ) ,歯擦音 ( しさつおん, shisatsuon ) Maori:hihī Norwegian:Bokmål:hvislelyd m sibilant (no) m Nynorsk:kvislelyd m sibilant m Portuguese:sibilante (pt) f Russian:сибиля́нт (ru) m ( sibiljánt ) ,свистящий (ru) m ( svistjaščij ) ( звук, for "s", "z" ) ,шипя́щий (ru) m ( šipjáščij ) ( звук, for "sh", "zh" ) ,свистя́ще-шипя́щий m ( svistjášče-šipjáščij ) ( звук ) Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:сибѝлант m пи̏скавац m Roman:sibìlant (sh) m pȉskavac (sh) m Slovene:sičnik m Spanish:sibilante f Swedish:väsljud n sibilant (sv) c Welsh:sisiolyn m
sibilant
( phonetics ) sibilant sibilant c plural sibilanten diminutive sibilantje n
sibilant (Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium .)
sibilant (feminine sibilante masculine plural sibilants feminine plural sibilantes
sibilant hissing sībilant
third-person plural present active indicative ofsībilō Borrowed fromFrench sibilant
sibilant m or n feminine singular sibilantă masculine plural sibilanți feminine and neuter plural sibilante
sibilant IPA (key ) : /sibǐlant/ Hyphenation:si‧bi‧lant sibìlant m inan Cyrillic spelling сибѝлант
( phonetics ) sibilant Synonym: pȉskavac 
