moan

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• Received-Pronunciation: mōn
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• Received-Pronunciation: /məʊn/
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• US: mōn
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• US: /moʊn/
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• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• rhymes with -əʊn
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• homophone: mown
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• CMU ARPABET: M OW1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree English moa Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English moan From moa + -an.

From Middle English mone, mane, mān, (also as mene), from Old English *mān, *mǣn (“complaint; lamentation”), from Proto-West Germanic *mainu, from Proto-Germanic *mainō (“opinion; mind”). Cognate with Old Frisian mēne (“opinion”), Old High German meina (“opinion”). Old English *mān, *mǣn is inferred from Old English mǣnan (“to complain over; grieve; mourn”). More at mean.

133 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Azerbaijani: inilti — a low cry of pain
• Azerbaijani: zarıltı — a low cry of pain
• Bulgarian: стон (ston) — a low cry of pain
• Bulgarian: стена́ние (stenánie) — a low cry of pain
• Catalan: gemec — a low cry of pain
• Chinese Mandarin: 呻吟 (shēnyín) — a low cry of pain
• Chinese Mandarin: 哀鸣 (aīmíng) — a low cry of pain
• Czech: nářek — a low cry of pain
• Dutch: kreun — a low cry of pain
• Esperanto: ĝemo — a low cry of pain
• Finnish: voihkinta — a low cry of pain
• Finnish: voihkina — a low cry of pain
• Finnish: voihke — a low cry of pain
• French: gémissement — a low cry of pain
• Galician: laio — a low cry of pain
• Galician: laído — a low cry of pain
• German: Stöhnen — a low cry of pain
• German: Ächzen — a low cry of pain
• Hindi: कराह (karāh) — a low cry of pain
• Hungarian: nyögés — a low cry of pain
• Irish: ong — a low cry of pain
• Italian: gemito — a low cry of pain
• Japanese: 呻き (umeki) — a low cry of pain
• Japanese: 呻き声 (umekigoe) — a low cry of pain
• Kabuverdianu: jemidu — a low cry of pain
• Kazakh: ыңыл (yñyl) — a low cry of pain
• Korean: 신음 (sineum) — a low cry of pain
• Northern Kurdish: axîn — a low cry of pain
• Northern Kurdish: oxîn — a low cry of pain
• Northern Kurdish: ofîn — a low cry of pain
• Latgalian: voikuošona — a low cry of pain
• Latgalian: gaudys — a low cry of pain
• Latvian: vaids — a low cry of pain
• Middle English: mone — a low cry of pain
• Norwegian Nynorsk: støn — a low cry of pain
• Persian: ناله (nâle) — a low cry of pain
• Polish: jęk — a low cry of pain
• Portuguese: gemido — a low cry of pain
• Portuguese: lamento — a low cry of pain
• Romanian: geamăt — a low cry of pain
• Romanian: gemete — a low cry of pain
• Russian: стон (ston) — a low cry of pain
• Scottish Gaelic: caoidh — a low cry of pain
• Spanish: gemido — a low cry of pain
• Spanish: quejido — a low cry of pain
• Swedish: stönande — a low cry of pain
• Swedish: stön — a low cry of pain
• Ottoman Turkish: زار (zar) — a low cry of pain
• Ukrainian: сто́гін (stóhin) — a low cry of pain
• Urdu: کَراہ (karāh) — a low cry of pain
• Bulgarian: оплаквам се (oplakvam se) — to complain
• Catalan: gemegar — to complain
• Catalan: llamentar-se — to complain
• Catalan: plànyer-se — to complain
• Dutch: klagen — to complain
• Finnish: valittaa — to complain
• French: se plaindre — to complain
• French: geindre — to complain
• German: klagen — to complain
• German: beklagen — to complain
• German: chlaage — to complain
• Irish: éagaoin — to complain
• Italian: lamentarsi — to complain
• Māori: hāngurunguru — to complain
• Māori: kōnanunanu — to complain
• Māori: kūnanunanu — to complain
• Polish: narzekać — to complain
• Portuguese: queixar-se — to complain
• Portuguese: reclamar — to complain
• Spanish: quejar — to complain
• Finnish: valittaa — to grieve (poetic)
• German: wehklagen — to grieve (poetic)
• German: beklagen — to grieve (poetic)
• Albanian: rënkoj — to make a moan or similar sound
• Arabic: تَأَوَّهَ (taʔawwaha) — to make a moan or similar sound
• Asturian: ximir — to make a moan or similar sound
• Azerbaijani: inildəmək — to make a moan or similar sound
• Azerbaijani: zarıldamaq — to make a moan or similar sound
• Azerbaijani: inləmək — to make a moan or similar sound
• Belarusian: е́нчыць (jénčycʹ) — to make a moan or similar sound
• Bulgarian: стена (stena) — to make a moan or similar sound
• Catalan: gemegar — to make a moan or similar sound
• Cherokee: ᎤᎵᏰᏗᎭ (uliyediha) — to make a moan or similar sound
• Chinese Mandarin: 呻吟 (shēnyín) — to make a moan or similar sound
• Czech: sténat — to make a moan or similar sound
• Dutch: kreunen — to make a moan or similar sound
• Esperanto: ĝemi — to make a moan or similar sound
• Estonian: oigama — to make a moan or similar sound
• Finnish: voihkia — to make a moan or similar sound
• Finnish: ähkiä — to make a moan or similar sound
• French: gémir — to make a moan or similar sound
• French: mugir — to make a moan or similar sound
• German: stöhnen — to make a moan or similar sound
• German: ächzen — to make a moan or similar sound
• German: bërsche — to make a moan or similar sound
• Hungarian: nyög — to make a moan or similar sound
• Icelandic: stynja — to make a moan or similar sound
• Indonesian: mendesah — to make a moan or similar sound
• Italian: gemere — to make a moan or similar sound
• Japanese: 呻く (umeku) — to make a moan or similar sound
• Korean: 신음(呻吟)하다 (sineumhada) — to make a moan or similar sound
• Latgalian: voikuot — to make a moan or similar sound
• Latvian: vaidēt — to make a moan or similar sound
• Lithuanian: dejuoti — to make a moan or similar sound
• Macedonian: стенка (stenka) — to make a moan or similar sound
• Māori: wheo — to make a moan or similar sound
• Māori: wheowheo — to make a moan or similar sound
• Māori: aurere — to make a moan or similar sound
• Māori: ngū — to make a moan or similar sound
• Norwegian Bokmål: stønne — to make a moan or similar sound
• Norwegian Nynorsk: stynja — to make a moan or similar sound
• Oromo: aaduu — to make a moan or similar sound
• Persian: نالیدن (nâlidan) — to make a moan or similar sound
• Polish: jęczeć — to make a moan or similar sound
• Portuguese: gemer — to make a moan or similar sound
• Romanian: geme — to make a moan or similar sound
• Russian: стона́ть (stonátʹ) — to make a moan or similar sound
• Serbo-Croatian: stenjati — to make a moan or similar sound
• Spanish: gemir — to make a moan or similar sound
• Swedish: stöna — to make a moan or similar sound
• Turkish: ahlamak — to make a moan or similar sound
• Turkish: inlemek — to make a moan or similar sound
• Ukrainian: стогна́ти (stohnáty) — to make a moan or similar sound
• Venetan: zèmere — to make a moan or similar sound
• Vietnamese: rên rỉ — to make a moan or similar sound
• Finnish: mankua — to say with a moaning voice
• German: jammern — to say with a moaning voice
• German: stöhnen — to say with a moaning voice
• German: schluchzen — to say with a moaning voice
• Finnish: nurista — to grumble (colloquial)
• German: maulen — to grumble (colloquial)
• German: murren — to grumble (colloquial)
• German: motzen — to grumble (colloquial)