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  2. Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

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    Filipino: nam nam: lunók: tsuka tsuka: Finnish: rousk nam nam, nami nami klup French: miam, crounche miam miam glouglouglou gloups German: mampf mampf mampf, hamm hamm, mjam schlürf, gluck schluck Gujarati: gudgud Hebrew: אָממ אָממ (amm amm) שלוּק (shluk) צחצוח (tsikhtsúakh), שקשוק (shikshúk refers to "shaking teeth ...

  3. List of onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Onomatopoeia - Wikipedia

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    Onomatopoeia (or rarely echoism) [1] is a type of word, or the process of creating a word, that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes. Common onomatopoeias in English include animal noises such as oink , meow , roar , and chirp .

  5. Japanese sound symbolism - Wikipedia

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    Known popularly as onomatopoeia, these words do not just imitate sounds but also cover a much wider range of meanings; [1] indeed, many sound-symbolic words in Japanese are for things that make no noise originally, most clearly demonstrated by 'silently' (しーんと, shīnto), not to be confused with the religion Shintō.

  6. UP Diksiyonaryong Filipino - Wikipedia

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    The UP Diksiyonaryong Filipino (UPDF; "UP Filipino Dictionary") is a series of monolingual Filipino dictionaries. The dictionaries were created by the Sentro ng Wikang Filipino of the University of the Philippines, with Virgilio S. Almario, National Artist for Literature and a professor at the University of the Philippines Diliman, as editor-in-chief.

  7. Philippine English vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    (Original meaning: to make something accessible or allow for passage by moving from a shut position) Plastic [56] — two-faced; insincere (Original meaning: a synthetic, solid, hydrocarbon-based polymer, whether thermoplastic or thermosetting) Province [69] – Any place outside Metro Manila. (Original meaning: major administrative subdivision ...

  8. Great Pyrenees Dog Completely Misses the Obvious When it ...

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    The giant size of a Pyr make it necessary to be careful during training to make sure they understand how powerful they are and how capable they are of causing damage without meaning to.

  9. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...