plosive

English

Etymology

Clipping of explosive.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpləʊsɪv/, /ˈpləʊzɪv/
• (US) enPR: plō'sĭv, plō'zĭv, IPA^(key): /ˈploʊsɪv/, /ˈploʊzɪv/

Noun

Examples (English)
/p/ and /ɡ/ in pug

plosive (plural plosives)

1. (phonetics) Sound produced from opening a previously closed oral passage.

   Synonyms: stop, occlusive

   Hypernyms: consonant, obstruent

Related terms

• plosion

Translations

consonant

• Arabic: اِنْفْجَارِي‎ m (infjārī), صَوْت اِنْفِجَارِي‎ m (ṣawt infijārī)
• Armenian: պայթական (hy) (paytʿakan), հպական (hy) (hpakan)
• Catalan: oclusiva f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 塞音 (zh) (sèyīn, sàiyīn)

• Czech: exploziva f, okluziva f
• Danish: lukkelyd c, klusil c
• Dutch: occlusief (nl), plosief (nl), plofklank (nl)
• Finnish: klusiili (fi)
• French: occlusif (fr) m
• Georgian: ხშული (xšuli), ხშულ-მსკდომი (xšul-msḳdomi)
• German: Verschlußlaut (de) m, Verschlusslaut (de) m, Explosiv (de) m, Plosiv (de) m
• Hungarian: zárhang

• 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)

1. (phonetics) Produced from opening a previously closed oral passage.

Derived terms

• plosively
• plosiveness

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French

Noun

plosive f (plural plosives)

1. plosive

Adjective

plosive

1. feminine singular of plosif

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German

Adjective

plosive

1. inflection of plosiv:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular