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Certain words in the English language represent animal sounds: the noises and vocalizations of particular animals, especially noises used by animals for communication. The words can be used as verbs or interjections in addition to nouns , and many of them are also specifically onomatopoeic .
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 January 2025. This is a list of onomatopoeias, i.e. words that imitate, resemble, or suggest the source of the sound that they describe. For more information, see the linked articles. Human vocal sounds Achoo, Atishoo, the sound of a sneeze Ahem, a sound made to clear the throat or to draw attention ...
Rooster crowing Turkey calling Goose calling Duck calling Afrikaans: kloek kloek: koekeloekoe: kwaak: Albanian: kikiriki: glluglluk: gak-gak: mak-mak: Arabic: قرقر (qur qur), بق بق بيق (baq baq baiq) [ara 3] kuku-kookoo, kuku-reekoo, esku kookoo, صقاع (siqā`) [ara 3] كواك كواك (kwāk kwāk) [ara 4]
Human sounds sometimes provide instances of onomatopoeia, as when mwah is used to represent a kiss. [12] For animal sounds, words like quack (duck), moo (cow), bark or woof (dog), roar (lion), meow/miaow or purr (cat), cluck (chicken) and baa (sheep) are typically used in English (both as nouns and as verbs).
Onomatopoeia: a word or a grouping of words that imitates the sound it is describing; Phonetic reversal; Rhyme: a repetition of identical or similar sounds in two or more different words Alliteration: matching consonants sounds at the beginning of words; Assonance: matching vowel sounds; Consonance: matching consonant sounds
The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans, an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners. [1] Most terms used here may be found in common dictionaries and general information web sites. [2] [3] [4
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The first two lines were used to mock the cockerel's (rooster in US) "crow". [1] The first full version recorded was in Mother Goose's Melody , published in London around 1765. [ 1 ] By the mid-nineteenth century, when it was collected by James Orchard Halliwell , it was very popular and three additional verses, perhaps more recent in origin ...