"phonetic name" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: phonetic names [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} phonetic name (plural phonetic names)
  1. A name as it is thought to have been pronounced, rather than how it is commonly written. Used with languages such as Epigraphic Mayan where the conventional transcription of the name does not reflect the pronunciation.
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  2. A name written in phonographic rather than logographic characters, as in Egyptian.
    Sense id: en-phonetic_name-en-noun-4s2jOQ8x
  3. In electronic applications such as address books, an entry that allows a name to be looked up through pronunciation rather than spelling
    Sense id: en-phonetic_name-en-noun-mQozT8YV Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 15 32 53

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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