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glottal

Syllables: glot·tal/ˈɡlɒt.əl/US/ˈɡlɑ.təl/

glottal adjective: of or relating to the glottis.

Adjective

glottal (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to the glottis.
  2. Articulated with the glottis.
    • Her Malay was the Malay of the Staate of Lanchap [...] and she spoke it fierily, with crisp glottal checks, with much bubbling reduplication.1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 256
    • Both EE and SSBE feature glottal stops – unvoiced Ts – but in EE it can happen in the middle of words – eg “wa’er for “water” – whereas in SSBE it happens only at the end of words.2023 October 31, “Language barrier: why even Harry has stopped speaking the king’s English”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2024

Noun

glottal (plural glottals)

  1. A sound made with the glottis

glottal meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Kannada and Tagalog

glottal in Tamil

குரல்வளை சார்ந்த

glottal in Urdu

دہانے سے متعلق, منہ کا

glottal in Kannada

ಕಂಠದ್ವಾರೀಯ, ಅದರಿಂದ ಹುಟ್ಟಿದ

glottal in Tagalog

articulated with the glottis
pigit
More languagesFewer languages
glottal in Arabic
حَنْجَرِيّ ḥanjariyy
glottal in Vietnamese
âm thanh hầu

Synonyms of glottal

Forms of glottal

pluralglottals

Origin of glottal

From glottis + -al.

Words formed from glottal

Phrases with glottal

Words that rhyme with glottal

Questions about glottal

What does glottal mean?
Glottal means of or relating to the glottis.
What is glottal in Tamil?
Glottal in Tamil is குரல்வளை சார்ந்த. See Glottal meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is glottal?
Glottal can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce glottal?
Glottal is pronounced /ˈɡlɒt.əl/ (UK).

Words near glottal in the dictionary

  1. glost ovens
  2. Gloster
  3. Glotfelty
  4. Glotfeltys
  5. glott-
  6. glottal
  7. glottal catch
  8. glottal catches
  9. glottal fry
  10. glottal stop
  11. glottal stops

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: glottal (page history and authors); glottal (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); glottal (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); glottal (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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