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Thursday, 15 May 2014

Words describing sounds

Words used to imitate the sounds we hear known as Onomatopoeia. The word 'onomatopoeia' comes from the combination of two Greek words, one meaning name and the other meaning I make”, so onomatopoeia literally means the name (or sound) I make”. Every country describes sounds differently according to their languages. Below are examples for English which is quite fun and interesting to know I think.

Sounds of
Onomatopoeia
Beating heart
lub-dub-lub-dub
Bee
buzz
Bell
ching-a-ling
Blowing on hot soup
fffffffff
Cat
miaow
Cash
cha-ching
Cash
ka-ching
Clock
tick tock
Chicken
cluck cluck
Choking
awk
Clearing throat
ahem
Computer generated
beep
Coughing
ugh
Cow
moo
Dog
woof woof
Door bell
ding dong
Donkey
eee-aaaah
Duck
quack quack
Exhaling
huff
Explosion
boom
Feeling cold
brrr
Flying insect
bzzz
Frog
ribbit
Hard Hit
bam
Hen
kut-kut-kut
High heels
tack tack
Hippopotamus
huuuuugh
Horse
neigh
Infant
dada
Knocking on a door
knock knock
Leaking faucet
tluck…tlock
Lion
roar
Machine gun
bratatat
Police car
woop woop
Phone
ring
Pig
oink oink
Rooster
cock-a-doodle-do
Running horse
tabdak tabdak
Sheep
baa
Siren
eeeoooeeeooo
Sleep
zzzz
Snake
sssss
Sneeze
achoo
Swallowing drink
glug
Train horn
waaank
Wind
whoosh

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