blare

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• Received-Pronunciation: /blɛə/
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• General-American: /blɛ(ə)ɹ/
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• Australian: /bleː/
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• New-Zealand: /bleə/ without the cheer–chair merger
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• /bliə/ New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
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• Scotland: /bleɹ/
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• /blɜː(ɹ)/ Lancashire, fair–fur merger
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• rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)
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• homophone: blair
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• homophone: Blair
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• homophone: blear (cheer–chair merger)
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• homophone: blur (fair–fur merger)
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• CMU ARPABET: B L EH1 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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The verb is derived from Late Middle English blaren, bleren, bloren (“to bellow, cry, wail; of a goat: to bleat”), probably from Old English *blǣran, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bhleh1- (“to bleat, cry”) and ultimately imitative. Related to Middle Dutch blaren, bleren (“to bawl, cry; to shout; to bleat”) (modern Dutch blèren). The noun is derived from the verb. Cognates German Low German blaren, blarren Middle High German blêren, blerren (modern German plärren) Saterland Frisian blärje West Frisian blearje

72 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: шумно свирене (šumno svirene) — loud sound
• Bulgarian: тръбене (trǎbene) — loud sound
• Bulgarian: трясък (trjasǎk) — loud sound
• Catalan: soroll — loud sound
• Czech: rámus — loud sound
• Czech: řev — loud sound
• Finnish: raikuna — loud sound
• Finnish: jysähdys — loud sound
• French: beuglement — loud sound
• French: vacarme — loud sound
• German: Geplärre — loud sound
• Italian: squillo — loud sound
• Italian: strombettio — loud sound
• Latin: clangor — loud sound
• Macedonian: тре́сок (trésok) — loud sound
• Macedonian: тре́штење (tréštenje) — loud sound
• Norwegian: brøl — loud sound
• Norwegian: skrall — loud sound
• Portuguese: clangor — loud sound
• Portuguese: estrondo — loud sound
• Romanian: zgomot — loud sound
• Russian: гро́мкий звук (grómkij zvuk) — loud sound
• Russian: рёв (rjov) — loud sound
• Spanish: estruendo — loud sound
• Spanish: estrépido — loud sound
• Swedish: bröl — loud sound
• Finnish: räikeys — of colour, light, or some other quality: dazzling, often garish, brilliance
• French: brillance — of colour, light, or some other quality: dazzling, often garish, brilliance
• French: éclat — of colour, light, or some other quality: dazzling, often garish, brilliance
• Macedonian: сјај (sjaj) — of colour, light, or some other quality: dazzling, often garish, brilliance
• Romanian: strălucire — of colour, light, or some other quality: dazzling, often garish, brilliance
• Russian: цветистость (cvetistostʹ) — of colour, light, or some other quality: dazzling, often garish, brilliance
• Russian: ослепительная вспы́шка (oslepitelʹnaja vspýška) — of colour, light, or some other quality: dazzling, often garish, brilliance
• Finnish: karjunta — lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring
• German: Geplärre — lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring
• Macedonian: ри́кање (ríkanje) — lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring
• Czech: řvát — of a device such as a loudspeaker or a radio: to produce (music, a sound, etc.) loudly and piercingly
• Czech: vyřvávat — of a device such as a loudspeaker or a radio: to produce (music, a sound, etc.) loudly and piercingly
• Czech: vřískat — of a device such as a loudspeaker or a radio: to produce (music, a sound, etc.) loudly and piercingly
• Finnish: pauhata — of a device such as a loudspeaker or a radio: to produce (music, a sound, etc.) loudly and piercingly
• German: plärren — of a device such as a loudspeaker or a radio: to produce (music, a sound, etc.) loudly and piercingly
• Macedonian: гр́ми (gŕmi) — of a device such as a loudspeaker or a radio: to produce (music, a sound, etc.) loudly and piercingly
• Macedonian: тре́шти (tréšti) — of a device such as a loudspeaker or a radio: to produce (music, a sound, etc.) loudly and piercingly
• Bulgarian: тръбя (trǎbja) — to make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet
• Catalan: resonar — to make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet
• Catalan: sonar — to make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet
• Czech: řvát — to make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet
• Czech: vřískat — to make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet
• Czech: ječet — to make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet
• Finnish: raikua — to make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet
• French: brailler — to make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet
• French: hurler — to make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet
• French: beugler — to make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet
• German: plärren — to make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet
• Italian: risuonare — to make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet
• Latin: clango — to make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet
• Macedonian: тру́би (trúbi) — to make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet
• Macedonian: ви́ка (víka) — to make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet
• Norwegian: brøle — to make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet
• Norwegian: skralle — to make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet
• Portuguese: retumbar — to make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet
• Romanian: face zgomot — to make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet
• Romanian: zdrăngăni — to make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet
• Russian: гро́мко труби́ть (grómko) — to make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet
• Spanish: resonar — to make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet
• Swedish: bröla — to make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet
• Ukrainian: трубити (trubyty) — to make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet
• Ukrainian: гудіти (hudity) — to make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet
• Ukrainian: ревіти (revity) — to make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet
• Finnish: karjua — to make a lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring
• German: plärren — to make a lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring
• Macedonian: ри́ка (ríka) — to make a lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring