affricate

affricate
n. /af"ri kit/; v. /af"ri kayt'/, n., v., affricated, affricating. Phonet.
n.
1. Also called affricative. a speech sound comprising occlusion, plosion, and frication, as either of the ch-sounds in church and the j-sound in joy.
v.t.
2. to change the pronunciation of (a stop) to an affricate, esp. by releasing (the stop) slowly.
[1875-85; < L affricatus rubbed against (ptp. of affricare), equiv. to af- AF- + fric- (see FRICTION) + -atus -ATE1]

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also called  semiplosive 

      a consonant sound that begins as a stop (sound with complete obstruction of the breath stream) and concludes with a fricative (sound with incomplete closure and a sound of friction). Examples of affricates are the ch sound in English chair, which may be represented phonetically as a t sound followed by sh; the j in English jaw (a d followed by the zh sound heard in French jour or in English azure); and the ts sound often heard in German and spelled with z as in zehn, meaning ten.

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