grumble

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• /ˈɡɹʌmbl̩/
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• Northern-England: /ˈɡɹʊmbəl/
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• CMU ARPABET: G R AH1 M B AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Probably from Middle French grommeler, from Old French grumeler (“to murmur, grumble”), from Middle Dutch *grommelen ("to murmur, mutter, grunt"; > Modern Dutch grommelen (“to grumble”)), frequentative of Middle Dutch grommen (“to growl, grunt”). Cognate with Middle Low German grummelen (> Low German grummeln (“to grumble”)), German grummeln (“to grumble”), Norwegian dialectal grymja (“to growl, grunt”).

118 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: тътен (tǎten) — a high thundering, rumbling or growling sound
• Finnish: karjunta — a high thundering, rumbling or growling sound
• Finnish: ärjyntä — a high thundering, rumbling or growling sound
• Finnish: mylvintä — a high thundering, rumbling or growling sound
• French: grondement — a high thundering, rumbling or growling sound
• German: Gegrummel — a high thundering, rumbling or growling sound
• German: Grummeln — a high thundering, rumbling or growling sound
• Irish: geonaíl — a high thundering, rumbling or growling sound
• Italian: protestare — a high thundering, rumbling or growling sound
• Central Kurdish: بۆڵە (bolle) — a high thundering, rumbling or growling sound
• Portuguese: rosnado — a high thundering, rumbling or growling sound
• Russian: рыча́ние (ryčánije) — a high thundering, rumbling or growling sound
• Spanish: refunfuñadura — a high thundering, rumbling or growling sound
• Vietnamese: lầm bầm — a high thundering, rumbling or growling sound
• Bulgarian: куркане (kurkane) — the sound made by a hungry stomach
• Bulgarian: къркорене (kǎrkorene) — the sound made by a hungry stomach
• Czech: kručení — the sound made by a hungry stomach
• Dutch: gegrommel — the sound made by a hungry stomach
• Dutch: geknor — the sound made by a hungry stomach
• Dutch: grommen — the sound made by a hungry stomach
• Finnish: kurninta — the sound made by a hungry stomach
• Finnish: kurnaus — the sound made by a hungry stomach
• French: gargouillement — the sound made by a hungry stomach
• French: grondement — the sound made by a hungry stomach
• German: Knurren — the sound made by a hungry stomach
• Central Kurdish: قۆڕەقۆڕ (qorreqorr) — the sound made by a hungry stomach
• Romanian: chiorăi — the sound made by a hungry stomach
• Romanian: ghiorțăi — the sound made by a hungry stomach
• Romanian: borborism — the sound made by a hungry stomach
• Romanian: borborigme — the sound made by a hungry stomach
• Russian: урча́ние (určánije) — the sound made by a hungry stomach
• Spanish: gruñido — the sound made by a hungry stomach
• Bulgarian: мърморене (mǎrmorene) — surly complaint
• Esperanto: grumbli — surly complaint
• French: grognement — surly complaint
• Indonesian: menggerutu — surly complaint
• Albanian: shfryj — to make a low growling or rumbling animal noise
• Albanian: gjëmoj — to make a low growling or rumbling animal noise
• Southern Altai: ыркыраар (ïrkïraar) — to make a low growling or rumbling animal noise
• Bulgarian: ръмжа (rǎmža) — to make a low growling or rumbling animal noise
• Dutch: grommen — to make a low growling or rumbling animal noise
• Dutch: knorren — to make a low growling or rumbling animal noise
• Finnish: karjua — to make a low growling or rumbling animal noise
• Finnish: ärjyä — to make a low growling or rumbling animal noise
• Finnish: mylviä — to make a low growling or rumbling animal noise
• French: gronder — to make a low growling or rumbling animal noise
• Galician: rosmar — to make a low growling or rumbling animal noise
• Galician: roñar — to make a low growling or rumbling animal noise
• Ancient Greek: γρύζω (grúzō) — to make a low growling or rumbling animal noise
• Central Kurdish: بۆڵە (bolle) — to make a low growling or rumbling animal noise
• Kyrgyz: ыркыроо (ırkıroo) — to make a low growling or rumbling animal noise
• Portuguese: rosnar — to make a low growling or rumbling animal noise
• Russian: рыча́ть (ryčátʹ) — to make a low growling or rumbling animal noise
• Walloon: groûler — to make a low growling or rumbling animal noise
• Bulgarian: куркам (kurkam) — to make a growling or rumbling stomach noise
• Dutch: grommen — to make a growling or rumbling stomach noise
• Dutch: grommelen — to make a growling or rumbling stomach noise
• Finnish: kurnia — to make a growling or rumbling stomach noise
• Finnish: kurnata — to make a growling or rumbling stomach noise
• French: gargouiller — to make a growling or rumbling stomach noise
• Central Kurdish: بۆڵە (bolle) — to make a growling or rumbling stomach noise
• Russian: урча́ть (určátʹ) — to make a growling or rumbling stomach noise
• Russian: бурча́ть (burčátʹ) — to make a growling or rumbling stomach noise
• Spanish: gruñir — to make a growling or rumbling stomach noise
• Arabic: قَمْقَمَ (qamqama) — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Azerbaijani: deyinmək — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Azerbaijani: dolquldanmaq — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Azerbaijani: söylənmək — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Azerbaijani: mırıldamaq — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Bulgarian: мърморя (mǎrmorja) — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Bulgarian: мрънкам (mrǎnkam) — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Catalan: rondinar — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Dutch: grommen — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Dutch: grommelen — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Dutch: morren — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Finnish: purnata — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Finnish: valittaa — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• French: ronchonner — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• French: bougonner — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• French: rouspéter — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• French: grogner — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• French: grommeler — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• French: maugréer — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Galician: rosmar — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Galician: roñar — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Galician: refungar — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• German: murren — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Greek: γογγύζω (gongýzo) — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Greek: γκρινιάζω (gkriniázo) — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Ancient Greek: γογγύζω (gongúzō) — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Indonesian: merajuk — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Irish: bí ag clamhsán — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Irish: déan clamhsán — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Latin: ganniō — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Macedonian: мрчи (mrči) — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Māori: wauwau — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Māori: whakangutungutu — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Māori: whakanonenone — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Māori: hakuhaku — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Persian: ژکیدن (žakidan) — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Portuguese: rosnar — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Portuguese: resmungar — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Russian: ворча́ть (vorčátʹ) — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Russian: бурча́ть (burčátʹ) — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Russian: брюзжа́ть (brjuzžátʹ) — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Spanish: refunfuñar — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Spanish: rezongar — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Spanish: lamentarse — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Spanish: rezonglar — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Spanish: verraquear — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Spanish: varraquear — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Spanish: rosigar — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Tày: bắm — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Tày: phăm bẩư — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Ukrainian: бурчати (burčaty) — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Vietnamese: lẩm bẩm — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Walloon: marmouzî — to murmur or mutter with discontent
• Walloon: maroner — to murmur or mutter with discontent