arid

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈæɹɪd/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /ˈaɹɪd/
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• US: /ˈæɹɪd/ without the Mary–marry–merry merger
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• US: non-Mary-marry-merry Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• /ˈɛɚɪd/ US, Mary–marry–merry merger
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• Scotland, Wales: /ˈaɾɪd/
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• CMU ARPABET: AE1 R AH0 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: EH1 R AH0 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2eHs- Proto-Indo-European *-éh1ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh1yeti Proto-Indo-European *h2eHs-eh1yeti Proto-Italic *āzēō Latin āreō Proto-Indo-European *dheh1-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin āriduslbor. French arideder. ▲ Latin āridusder. English arid From French aride or directly from Latin āridus (“dry, arid, parched”), compare its synonymous contracted form ardus. Originally from the verb āreo (“to be dry, to be parched”), akin to ārdeō (“to be on fire, to burn”).

56 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: قَاحِل (qāḥil) — very dry
• Azerbaijani: quraq — very dry
• Azerbaijani: susuz — very dry
• Bengali: শুষ্ক (śuśko) — very dry
• Bulgarian: сух (suh) — very dry
• Bulgarian: безводен (bezvoden) — very dry
• Catalan: àrid — very dry
• Czech: vyprahlý — very dry
• Czech: suchý — very dry
• Dutch: droog — very dry
• Esperanto: arida — very dry
• Finnish: kuiva — very dry
• French: aride — very dry
• Galician: árido — very dry
• Gallurese: àrritu — very dry
• German: arid — very dry
• Ancient Greek: κάγκανος (kánkanos) — very dry
• Ancient Greek: ἄνυδρος (ánudros) — very dry
• Hebrew: צָחִיחַ (tzaẖíaẖ) — very dry
• Hungarian: kiszáradt — very dry
• Indonesian: gersang — very dry
• Indonesian: tandus — very dry
• Indonesian: arid — very dry
• Irish: tur — very dry
• Italian: arido — very dry
• Latin: āridus — very dry
• Latin: inaquōsus — very dry
• Malayalam: വരണ്ട (varaṇṭa) — very dry
• Malayalam: ശുഷ്ക (śuṣka) — very dry
• Navajo: hóółtseii — very dry
• Persian: خشک — very dry
• Persian: بایر — very dry
• Persian: کم باران — very dry
• Plautdietsch: drieech — very dry
• Portuguese: árido — very dry
• Russian: сухо́й (suxój) — very dry
• Russian: засу́шливый (zasúšlivyj) — very dry
• Russian: безво́дный (bezvódnyj) — very dry
• Campidanese Sardinian: àrridu — very dry
• Campidanese Sardinian: àridu — very dry
• Sardinian: assuttu — very dry
• Sardinian: àrridu — very dry
• Sassarese: aramiddu — very dry
• Sassarese: séccu — very dry
• Spanish: árido — very dry
• Turkish: çorak — very dry
• Turkish: kurak — very dry
• Ottoman Turkish: چوراق (çorak) — very dry
• Ottoman Turkish: قوراق (kurak) — very dry
• Ukrainian: сухи́й (suxýj) — very dry
• Ukrainian: посу́шливий (posúšlyvyj) — very dry
• Ukrainian: безво́дний (bezvódnyj) — very dry
• Urdu: خشک — very dry
• Uyghur: қурғақ (qurghaq) — very dry
• Welsh: cras — very dry
• Welsh: crin — very dry