baa

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• UK: [bɑː]
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• US: [bæ]
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• US: [bɑ]
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• [bæ̰ː]
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• [bæ̰ˀæ̰ˀæ̰ˀæ̰ˀ]
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• rhymes with -ɑː
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• rhymes with -æ
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• homophone: bah
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• homophone: bar (in some pronunciations)
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• CMU ARPABET: B IY2 EY2 EY1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Compare German bäh, mäh; an imitative word. Notes on phonological development The pronunciation /bɑː/ is perhaps a development from earlier /bæː/ reflecting the shift of /æː/ to /ɑː/ during the 18th and 19th centuries. Compare Early Modern English bae, bea, both "to baa", respectively displaying the then current pronunciation of Middle English /aː/ as /æː/ and the failure of Middle English /ɛː/ to raise, and the replacement of mew with meow for another instance where recent sound change has made onomatopoeia opaque.

Borrowed from Arabic بَاء (bāʔ).

100 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: bê — cry of sheep
• Catalan: be — cry of sheep
• Catalan: bee — cry of sheep
• Catalan: mè — cry of sheep
• Chinese Mandarin: 咩 (miē) — cry of sheep
• Czech: bé — cry of sheep
• Danish: mæh — cry of sheep
• Danish: mæ — cry of sheep
• Esperanto: be — cry of sheep
• Faroese: mæ — cry of sheep
• Finnish: bää — cry of sheep
• Finnish: mää — cry of sheep
• French: bè — cry of sheep
• French: bê — cry of sheep
• German: bäh — cry of sheep
• German: mäh — cry of sheep
• Greek: μπε (be) — cry of sheep
• Ancient Greek: βῆ (bê) — cry of sheep
• Hawaiian: heʻehe — cry of sheep
• Hungarian: bee — cry of sheep
• Icelandic: mee — cry of sheep
• Italian: beè — cry of sheep
• Japanese: メー (mē) — cry of sheep
• Latin: bee — cry of sheep
• Norwegian: bæ — cry of sheep
• Polish: be — cry of sheep
• Portuguese: bé — cry of sheep
• Russian: бэ-бэ (bɛ-bɛ) — cry of sheep
• Russian: ме (me) — cry of sheep
• Russian: бе (be) — cry of sheep
• Scottish Gaelic: mè — cry of sheep
• Serbo-Croatian: бе — cry of sheep
• Serbo-Croatian: be — cry of sheep
• Swedish: bä — cry of sheep
• Turkish: me — cry of sheep
• Arabic: مَأْمَأَة (maʔmaʔa) — bleating of sheep
• Catalan: bel — bleating of sheep
• Chinese Mandarin: 發咩聲 /发咩声 (fā miē sheng) — bleating of sheep
• Czech: bečení — bleating of sheep
• Dutch: bè — bleating of sheep
• Faroese: jarm — bleating of sheep
• Finnish: mää — bleating of sheep
• French: bêlement — bleating of sheep
• German: Blöken — bleating of sheep
• Greek: βέλασμα (vélasma) — bleating of sheep
• Hawaiian: heʻehe — bleating of sheep
• Hawaiian: māʻāʻā — bleating of sheep
• Icelandic: jarm — bleating of sheep
• Italian: belato — bleating of sheep
• Italian: bè — bleating of sheep
• Japanese: 羊の鳴き声 (hitsuji no nakigoe) — bleating of sheep
• Central Kurdish: باعە (ba'e) — bleating of sheep
• Macedonian: блеење (bleenje) — bleating of sheep
• Navajo: meeʼ — bleating of sheep
• Norwegian: bæ — bleating of sheep
• Polish: bek — bleating of sheep
• Polish: beczenie — bleating of sheep
• Portuguese: balido — bleating of sheep
• Russian: бле́яние (bléjanije) — bleating of sheep
• Serbo-Croatian: блејање — bleating of sheep
• Serbo-Croatian: blejanje — bleating of sheep
• Spanish: balido — bleating of sheep
• Spanish: be — bleating of sheep
• Swedish: bä — bleating of sheep
• Swedish: bräkande — bleating of sheep
• Turkish: me — bleating of sheep
• Turkish: meleme — bleating of sheep
• Vietnamese: be be — bleating of sheep
• Catalan: belar — to make the cry of sheep
• Czech: bečet — to make the cry of sheep
• Czech: mečet — to make the cry of sheep
• Danish: bræge — to make the cry of sheep
• Dutch: blaten — to make the cry of sheep
• Esperanto: bei — to make the cry of sheep
• Faroese: jarma — to make the cry of sheep
• Finnish: määkiä — to make the cry of sheep
• French: bêler — to make the cry of sheep
• German: blöken — to make the cry of sheep
• German: bähen — to make the cry of sheep
• German: mähen — to make the cry of sheep
• Greek: βελάζω (velázo) — to make the cry of sheep
• Hungarian: béget — to make the cry of sheep
• Icelandic: jarma — to make the cry of sheep
• Italian: belare — to make the cry of sheep
• Japanese: (羊が)鳴く (hitsuji ga naku) — to make the cry of sheep
• Latin: bālō — to make the cry of sheep
• Norwegian: breke — to make the cry of sheep
• Old English: blǣtan — to make the cry of sheep
• Polish: beczeć — to make the cry of sheep
• Portuguese: balir — to make the cry of sheep
• Portuguese: balar — to make the cry of sheep
• Russian: бле́ять (bléjatʹ) — to make the cry of sheep
• Serbo-Croatian: блејати — to make the cry of sheep
• Serbo-Croatian: blejati — to make the cry of sheep
• Slovak: bečať — to make the cry of sheep
• Slovene: blejati — to make the cry of sheep
• Lower Sorbian: bjacaś — to make the cry of sheep
• Spanish: balar — to make the cry of sheep
• Swedish: bräka — to make the cry of sheep
• Turkish: melemek — to make the cry of sheep