Syllable

Noun

 * 1)  A unit of human speech that is interpreted by the listener as a single sound, although syllables usually consist of one or more vowel sounds, either alone or combined with the sound of one or more consonants; a word consists of one or more syllables.
 * 2) The written representation of a given pronounced syllable.

Related terms

 * syllabary
 * syllabic
 * syllabification
 * syllabify
 * monosyllable
 * polysyllable

Verb

 * 1)  To utter in syllables.
 * Aery tongues that syllable men's names &mdash; Milton.

Thesaurus
Spenserian stanza, allophone, alveolar, antistrophe, antonym, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulation, aspiration, assimilation, atom, bilabial, bit, book, burden, cacuminal, canto, cerebral, check, chorus, consonant, continuant, couplet, crumb, dental, diphthong, dissimilation, distich, envoi, epenthetic vowel, epode, explosive, expression, free form, glide, glottal, glottalization, guttural, heptastich, hexastich, homograph, homonym, homophone, jot, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal, lateral, lexeme, line, lingual, linguistic form, liquid, locution, logos, lota, manner of articulation, measure, metonym, minimum free form, modicum, modification, monophthong, monostich, monosyllable, morphophoneme, mute, nasal, occlusive, octastich, octave, octet, orthographize, ottava rima, ounce, outspell, palatal, parasitic vowel, peak, pentastich, pharyngeal, pharyngealization, phone, phoneme, plosive, polysyllable, prothetic vowel, quatrain, refrain, retroflex, rhyme royal, segmental phoneme, semivowel, septet, sestet, sextet, shred, sonant, sonority, speech sound, spell, spell backward, spell out, stanza, stave, stop, strain, strophe, surd, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllabize, synonym, tercet, term, terza rima, tetrastich, trace out, transition sound, triphthong, triplet, tristich, usage, utterance, velar, verbalism, verbum, verse, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced sound, voiceless sound, voicing, vowel, whit, word, write out

Etymology
Middle English and Middle French sillabe < syllaba: <  συλλαβή: < συλλαμβάνω: < συν: + λαμβάνω:.

Noun

 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: síl·laba
 * Chinese: 音節, 音节
 * Czech: slabika (1,2)
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: silabo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: szótag (1,2)
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: siolla


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 音節
 * Korean:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: слог (slog)
 * Scottish Gaelic: lide
 * Serbian:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: stavelse (1,2)
 * Volapük: silab