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say it: IR-uh-wah-dee
irrawaddy is a noun meaning "the main river of Myanmar rising in the north and flowing south through the length of Burma to empty into the Andaman Sea". It is pronounced /ˈɪɹəˌwɑdi/ — IR-uh-wah-dee. It carries one recorded sense.
the main river of Myanmar rising in the north and flowing south through the length of Burma to empty into the Andaman Sea
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for irrawaddy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.