bawl

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• bôl
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• Received-Pronunciation: /bɔːl/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /boːl/
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• Scotland: /bɔl/
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• Northumbria: /baːl/
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• /bɔl/ without the cot–caught merger
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• cot-caught-merger: /bɑl/
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• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /boːl/
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• homophone: ball
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• homophone: (cot–caught merger, father-bother merger) Basle
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• rhymes with -ɔːl
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• CMU ARPABET: B AO1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English baulen, from Old Norse baula (“to bellow”) and/or Medieval Latin baulō (“to bark”), both from Proto-Germanic *bau- (“to roar”), conflated with Proto-Germanic *bellaną, *ballijaną, *buljaną (“to shout, low, roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhel- (“to sound, roar”). Cognate with Faroese belja (“to low”), Icelandic baula (“to moo, low”), Swedish böla (“to bellow, low”). More at bell.

58 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: baladreig — a loud, intense shouting or wailing
• Czech: řev — a loud, intense shouting or wailing
• Czech: křik — a loud, intense shouting or wailing
• Finnish: karjunta — a loud, intense shouting or wailing
• German: Grölen — a loud, intense shouting or wailing
• Māori: pararētanga — a loud, intense shouting or wailing
• Spanish: alarido — a loud, intense shouting or wailing
• Spanish: grito — a loud, intense shouting or wailing
• Czech: řvát — to shout or utter in a loud and intense manner
• Czech: křičet — to shout or utter in a loud and intense manner
• Dutch: schreeuwen — to shout or utter in a loud and intense manner
• Finnish: huutaa — to shout or utter in a loud and intense manner
• Finnish: karjua — to shout or utter in a loud and intense manner
• French: hurler — to shout or utter in a loud and intense manner
• German: schreien — to shout or utter in a loud and intense manner
• German: brüllen — to shout or utter in a loud and intense manner
• German: grölen — to shout or utter in a loud and intense manner
• Irish: scread — to shout or utter in a loud and intense manner
• Italian: gridare — to shout or utter in a loud and intense manner
• Italian: urlare — to shout or utter in a loud and intense manner
• Latin: obvāgiō — to shout or utter in a loud and intense manner
• Māori: hāparangi — to shout or utter in a loud and intense manner
• Māori: whakapakari — to shout or utter in a loud and intense manner
• Māori: pararē — to shout or utter in a loud and intense manner
• Māori: tīwaha — to shout or utter in a loud and intense manner
• Russian: ора́ть (orátʹ) — to shout or utter in a loud and intense manner
• Russian: крича́ть (kričátʹ) — to shout or utter in a loud and intense manner
• Serbo-Croatian: vikati — to shout or utter in a loud and intense manner
• Spanish: gritar — to shout or utter in a loud and intense manner
• Spanish: gritonear — to shout or utter in a loud and intense manner
• Swedish: ryta — to shout or utter in a loud and intense manner
• Swedish: vråla — to shout or utter in a loud and intense manner
• Swedish: gorma — to shout or utter in a loud and intense manner
• Swedish: gasta — to shout or utter in a loud and intense manner
• Turkish: bağırmak — to shout or utter in a loud and intense manner
• Ottoman Turkish: چاغرمق (çağırmak) — to shout or utter in a loud and intense manner
• Ukrainian: волати (volaty) — to shout or utter in a loud and intense manner
• Ukrainian: кричати (kryčaty) — to shout or utter in a loud and intense manner
• Finnish: ulvoa — to wail; to give out a blaring cry
• French: hurler — to wail; to give out a blaring cry
• German: heulen — to wail; to give out a blaring cry
• German: brüllen — to wail; to give out a blaring cry
• Irish: scread — to wail; to give out a blaring cry
• Māori: whakapakari — to wail; to give out a blaring cry
• Māori: auē — to wail; to give out a blaring cry
• Russian: реве́ть (revétʹ) — to wail; to give out a blaring cry
• Russian: вопи́ть (vopítʹ) — to wail; to give out a blaring cry
• Spanish: plañir — to wail; to give out a blaring cry
• Spanish: llantear (disused) — to wail; to give out a blaring cry
• Turkish: ağlamak — to wail; to give out a blaring cry
• Ottoman Turkish: چاغرمق (çağırmak) — to wail; to give out a blaring cry
• Ottoman Turkish: اوكورمك (öğürmek) — to wail; to give out a blaring cry
• Ukrainian: горлати (horlaty) — to wail; to give out a blaring cry
• Ukrainian: галасувати (halasuvaty) — to wail; to give out a blaring cry
• Finnish: pillittää — to weep profusely
• Spanish: plañir — to weep profusely
• Spanish: llantear (disused) — to weep profusely
• Ukrainian: ревіти (revity) — to weep profusely