irtish

1. 1.

   an Asian river that rises in the Altai Mountains in northern China and flows generally northwest to become a tributary of the Ob River

   SynonymsIrtish RiverIrtyshIrtysh River

   Broaderriver

   Part ofSiberia

Other forms of irtish

plural

irtishes·

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.

Questions about irtish

What does irtish mean?

irtish means "an Asian river that rises in the Altai Mountains in northern China and flows generally northwest to become a tributary of the Ob River".

How many syllables are in irtish?

irtish has 2 syllables: ir-tish. The stress falls on "ir".

What is another word for irtish?

Close synonyms include Irtish River, Irtysh, Irtysh River. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is irtish a common word?

irtish is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.