clamor

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• General-American: /ˈklæm.ɚ/ without æ-raising
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• /ˈkleə̯m.ɚ/ æ-raising
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• /ˈklɛə̯m.ɚ/ æ-raising
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈklæm.ə/
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• rhymes with -æmə(ɹ)
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• homophone: clammer
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• CMU ARPABET: K L AE1 M ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Recorded in English since c. 1385, as Middle English clamour, from Old French clamor (modern clameur), from Latin clāmor (“a shout, cry”), from clāmō (“cry out, complain”). The verb sense "to silence" may have a distinct (unknown) etymology.

92 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: غوات (ḡwāt) — great outcry or vociferation
• Azerbaijani: fəryad — great outcry or vociferation
• Bulgarian: врява (vrjava) — great outcry or vociferation
• Bulgarian: глъчка (glǎčka) — great outcry or vociferation
• Catalan: clamor — great outcry or vociferation
• Catalan: clam — great outcry or vociferation
• Czech: řev — great outcry or vociferation
• Czech: křik — great outcry or vociferation
• Czech: vřava — great outcry or vociferation
• Czech: povyk — great outcry or vociferation
• Dutch: gegil — great outcry or vociferation
• Dutch: gejoel — great outcry or vociferation
• Dutch: gekrijs — great outcry or vociferation
• Dutch: geroep — great outcry or vociferation
• Dutch: geschreeuw — great outcry or vociferation
• Finnish: elämöinti — great outcry or vociferation
• Galician: clamor — great outcry or vociferation
• German: Geschrei — great outcry or vociferation
• German: Gezeter — great outcry or vociferation
• German: Schreierei — great outcry or vociferation
• Ancient Greek: θόρυβος (thórubos) — great outcry or vociferation
• Māori: rarī — great outcry or vociferation
• Māori: manioro — great outcry or vociferation
• Papiamentu: gritamentu — great outcry or vociferation
• Persian: فریاد — great outcry or vociferation
• Plautdietsch: Klommua — great outcry or vociferation
• Russian: крик (krik) — great outcry or vociferation
• Russian: галдёж (galdjóž) — great outcry or vociferation
• Spanish: clamor — great outcry or vociferation
• Spanish: alarido — great outcry or vociferation
• Walloon: sclameure — great outcry or vociferation
• Walloon: boerlaedje — great outcry or vociferation
• Bulgarian: шум (šum) — loud and continued noise
• Catalan: clamor — loud and continued noise
• Catalan: clam — loud and continued noise
• Czech: hluk — loud and continued noise
• Dutch: gedruis — loud and continued noise
• Dutch: lawaai — loud and continued noise
• German: Krach — loud and continued noise
• German: Lärm — loud and continued noise
• German: Lärmkulisse — loud and continued noise
• Ancient Greek: θόρυβος (thórubos) — loud and continued noise
• Ancient Greek: κέλαδος (kélados) — loud and continued noise
• Irish: callán — loud and continued noise
• Plautdietsch: Klommua — loud and continued noise
• Russian: шум (šum) — loud and continued noise
• Spanish: trulla — loud and continued noise
• Welsh: mwstwr — loud and continued noise
• Welsh: dwndwr — loud and continued noise
• Welsh: twrw — loud and continued noise
• Catalan: clamor — continued public expression, often of dissatisfaction; popular outcry
• Catalan: clam — continued public expression, often of dissatisfaction; popular outcry
• Czech: křik — continued public expression, often of dissatisfaction; popular outcry
• Czech: volání — continued public expression, often of dissatisfaction; popular outcry
• Dutch: boegeroep — continued public expression, often of dissatisfaction; popular outcry
• Dutch: gekrijt — continued public expression, often of dissatisfaction; popular outcry
• Dutch: gemor — continued public expression, often of dissatisfaction; popular outcry
• Dutch: protest — continued public expression, often of dissatisfaction; popular outcry
• French: clameur — continued public expression, often of dissatisfaction; popular outcry
• German: Geschrei — continued public expression, often of dissatisfaction; popular outcry
• German: Aufschrei — continued public expression, often of dissatisfaction; popular outcry
• German: Ruf — continued public expression, often of dissatisfaction; popular outcry
• German: Protest — continued public expression, often of dissatisfaction; popular outcry
• Kapampangan: capaniausan — continued public expression, often of dissatisfaction; popular outcry
• Kapampangan: quepaniausan — continued public expression, often of dissatisfaction; popular outcry
• Kapampangan: kapanyawusan — continued public expression, often of dissatisfaction; popular outcry
• Kapampangan: kepanyawusan — continued public expression, often of dissatisfaction; popular outcry
• Russian: ро́пот (rópot) — continued public expression, often of dissatisfaction; popular outcry
• Spanish: clamor — continued public expression, often of dissatisfaction; popular outcry
• Ottoman Turkish: خلاش (hılaş) — continued public expression, often of dissatisfaction; popular outcry
• Czech: volat — intransitive: to cry out and/or demand
• German: schreien — intransitive: to cry out and/or demand
• Spanish: clamar — intransitive: to cry out and/or demand
• Welsh: crochlefain — intransitive: to cry out and/or demand
• Bulgarian: вдигам врява (vdigam vrjava) — transitive: to demand by outcry
• Czech: dožadovat se — transitive: to demand by outcry
• Czech: dovolávat se — transitive: to demand by outcry
• German: mit lautem Geschrei fordern — transitive: to demand by outcry
• Portuguese: clamar — transitive: to demand by outcry
• Portuguese: rogar — transitive: to demand by outcry
• Spanish: clamorear — transitive: to demand by outcry
• Welsh: crochlefain — transitive: to demand by outcry
• Bulgarian: крещя (kreštja) — intransitive: to become noisy insistently
• Dutch: zich roeren — intransitive: to become noisy insistently
• Dutch: van zich laten horen — intransitive: to become noisy insistently
• Finnish: hälistä — intransitive: to become noisy insistently
• French: vociférer — intransitive: to become noisy insistently
• German: laut werden — intransitive: to become noisy insistently
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌾𐍉𐌽 (auhjōn) — intransitive: to become noisy insistently
• Māori: manioro — intransitive: to become noisy insistently
• Spanish: clamar — intransitive: to become noisy insistently
• Welsh: crochlefain — intransitive: to become noisy insistently