hi

[Ruba Saeed]

Can anybody write the english transcription for "tuberculosis" ?

thanks

[jeremy.h]

Can anybody write the english transcription for "tuberculosis" ?

thanks

It's already an english word:

noun: infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages)

Try www.onelook.com


Jeremy

[Ruba Saeed]

thanks alot jeremy for your help. but I dont want it's meaning ,I've already got it in into arabic. I just want how the native speaker pronounce the word. is its transcription "/tjʊbəkɔ:lzɪz/" ?

[Anglika]

This gives a pronunciation transcription [not phonetic] AskOxford: tuberculosis

This gives phonetic transcriptions: Cambridge Dictionaries Online - Cambridge University Press

[Ruba Saeed]

thanks Anglika so much

[Raymott]

thanks alot jeremy for your help. but I dont want it's meaning ,I've already got it in into arabic. I just want how the native speaker pronounce the word. is its transcription "/tjʊbəkɔ:lzɪz/" ?

In this word the /j/ is often not pronounced in the first syllable, although it is in 'tubercle', where the syllable is stressed.
Australian medical people generally say it closer to the US pronunciation given in the reference above, like this: /tə’bɜ:kju,lousəs/ /’tjubəkəl/