coo

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• ko͞o
  Play
• Received-Pronunciation: /kuː/
  Play
• General-American: /ku/
  Play
• rhymes with -uː
  Play
• homophone: coup
  Play
• Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• CMU ARPABET: K UW1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  Play

Clipping of cool; compare foo.

Imitative.

Onomatopoeic; compare Dutch koeren.

96 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: قَرْقَرَة (qarqara) — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• Arabic: مُنَاغَاة (munāḡāh) — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• Arabic: هَدِيل (hadīl) — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• Azerbaijani: quruldama — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• Bulgarian: гукане (gukane) — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• Catalan: parrup — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• Chinese Mandarin: 咕 (gū) — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• Ngazidja Comorian: dji — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• Czech: vrkot — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• Dutch: koeren — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• Dutch: roekoe — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• Esperanto: kvero — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• Finnish: kujerrus — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• French: roucoulement — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• Galician: arrolo — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• German: Gurren — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• German: Girren — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• Greek: γουργούρισμα (gourgoúrisma) — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• Hebrew: הֶמְיָה (hemyá) — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• Hebrew: המהום (himhúm) — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• Icelandic: kurr — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• Italian: cuccu — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• Macedonian: гу́гут (gúgut) — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• Macedonian: гу́гање (gúganje) — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• Macedonian: гу́кање (gúkanje) — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• Macedonian: гугу́кање (gugúkanje) — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• Macedonian: гугу́тење (gugútenje) — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• Norwegian Bokmål: kurr — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• Polish: gruchanie — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• Portuguese: arrulho — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• Russian: воркова́ние (vorkovánije) — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• Scottish Gaelic: dùrdail — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• Serbo-Croatian: гу̏гӯт — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• Serbo-Croatian: гугутање — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• Serbo-Croatian: gȕgūt — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• Serbo-Croatian: gugutanje — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• Spanish: arrullo — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• Swedish: kutter — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• Vietnamese: gù — murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon
• Arabic: هَدَلَ (hadala) — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Azerbaijani: quruldamaq — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Bulgarian: гукам (gukam) — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Catalan: parrupar — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Czech: vrkat — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Dutch: koeren — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Dutch: roekoeën — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Esperanto: kveri — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Esperanto: rukuli — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Finnish: kujertaa — to make a soft murmuring sound
• French: roucouler — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Galician: arrolar — to make a soft murmuring sound
• German: girren — to make a soft murmuring sound
• German: gurren — to make a soft murmuring sound
• German: rucksen — to make a soft murmuring sound
• German: turteln — to make a soft murmuring sound
• German: brabbeln — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Greek: γουργουρίζω (gourgourízo) — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Ancient Greek: γογγύζω (gongúzō) — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Ancient Greek: τρύζω (trúzō) — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Ancient Greek: λαρύνω (larúnō) — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Hebrew: המהם (himhém) — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Hebrew: המה (hamá) — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Hungarian: burukkol — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Icelandic: kurr — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Icelandic: hjala ljúflega — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Icelandic: hvísla blíðuorðum — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Ido: rukular — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Italian: grugare — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Italian: tubare — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Italian: tortoreggiare — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Macedonian: гу́га (gúga) — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Macedonian: гу́гнува (gúgnuva) — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Macedonian: гу́ка (gúka) — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Macedonian: гу́кнува (gúknuva) — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Macedonian: гу́гути (gúguti) — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Māori: kū — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Māori: tumu — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Māori: kūkū — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Norwegian Bokmål: kurre — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Polish: gruchać — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Polish: gruchnąć — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Portuguese: arrulhar — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Russian: воркова́ть (vorkovátʹ) — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Scottish Gaelic: dèan dùrdail — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Serbo-Croatian: гу́кати — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Serbo-Croatian: гугу́тати — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Serbo-Croatian: те̏пати — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Serbo-Croatian: gúkati — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Serbo-Croatian: gugútati — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Serbo-Croatian: tȅpati — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Slovak: hrkútať — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Slovak: zahrkútať — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Spanish: arrullar — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Swedish: kuttra — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Turkish: kuğurmak — to make a soft murmuring sound
• Czech: vrkat — to speak in an admiring fashion