purr

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• Australian, Received-Pronunciation: /pɜː/
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• General-American: /pɝ/
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• Scotland: /pʌr/
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• New-Zealand: /pøː/
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• /peː/ Liverpool, fair–fur merger
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• /pɛː/ Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
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• /pɜː(ɹ)/ Lancashire, fair–fur merger
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)
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• homophone: per (fern–fir–fur merger)
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• homophone: pair
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• homophone: pare
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• homophone: pear (all fair–fur merger)
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• CMU ARPABET: P ER1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Onomatopoeic.

127 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: мър (mǎr) — Translations
• Bulgarian: мър-мър (mǎr-mǎr) — Translations
• Chinese Mandarin: 呼嚕 /呼噜 (hūlū) — Translations
• Japanese: ゴロゴロ (gorogoro) — Translations
• Polish: mru — Translations
• Russian: мур (mur) — Translations
• Russian: мур-мур (mur-mur) — Translations
• Russian: мур-р-р (mur-r-r) — Translations
• Ukrainian: мур (mur) — Translations
• Arabic: خَرْخَرَة (ḵarḵara) — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• Bulgarian: мъркане (mǎrkane) — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• Chinese Mandarin: 咕嚕咕嚕聲 /咕噜咕噜声 (gūlǔgūlǔ shēng) — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• Chinese Mandarin: 貓喘音 /猫喘音 (māochuǎnyīn) — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• Chinese Mandarin: 貓喘鳴 /猫喘鸣 (māochuǎnmíng) — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• Dutch: spinnen — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• Finnish: kehräys — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• Finnish: kehrääminen — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• French: ronron — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• French: ronronnement — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• Georgian: კრუტუნი (ḳruṭuni) — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• German: Schnurren — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• Greek: γουργούρισμα (gourgoúrisma) — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• Hindi: घुरघुराहट (ghurghurāhaṭ) — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• Hungarian: dorombolás — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• Interlingua: ronron — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• Irish: crónán — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• Italian: fusa — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• Malay: dengkur — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• Polish: mruczenie — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• Portuguese: ronrom — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• Portuguese: rom-rom — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• Romanian: tors — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• Russian: мурлы́канье (murlýkanʹje) — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• Serbo-Croatian: предење — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• Serbo-Croatian: predenje — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• Slovak: pradenie — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• Spanish: ronroneo — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• Spanish: jirjir — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• Turkish: mırlama — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• Turkish: mırıltı — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• Turkish: mır — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• Ottoman Turkish: طر (dır) — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• Walloon: ronflaedje — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• Walloon: ronfelmint — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• Welsh: grwndi — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• Welsh: crwth — vibrating sound made by a cat when contented
• Arabic: خَرْخَرَ (ḵarḵara) — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Arabic: هَرْهَرَ (harhara) — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Basque: urrumatu — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Belarusian: мурлы́каць (murlýkacʹ) — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Belarusian: курня́ўкаць (kurnjáwkacʹ) — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Belarusian: му́ркаць (múrkacʹ) — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Bulgarian: мъркам (mǎrkam) — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Catalan: roncar — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Catalan: ronronejar — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Chinese Mandarin: 發出喉音 /发出喉音 (fāchū hóuyīn) — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Chinese Mandarin: 咕嚕咕嚕叫 /咕噜咕噜叫 (gūlǔgūlǔ jiào) — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Chinese Mandarin: 打呼嚕 /打呼噜 (dǎ hūlū) — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Crimean Tatar: mıravlamaq — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Czech: příst — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Danish: spinde — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Dutch: spinnen — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Esperanto: ronroni — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Finnish: kehrätä — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• French: ronronner — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Galician: rosmar — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Georgian: კრუტუნებს (ḳruṭunebs) — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• German: schnurren — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Greek: γουργουρίζω (gourgourízo) — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Greek: χουρχουρίζω (chourchourízo) — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Hindi: घुरघुराना (ghurghurānā) — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Hindi: घुरघुरकरना (ghurghurkarnā) — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Hungarian: dorombol — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Icelandic: mala — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Ingrian: laulaa — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Ingrian: urissa — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Ingrian: kedrätä — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Interlingua: ronronar — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Irish: bí ag crónán — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Italian: fare le fusa — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Japanese: ごろごろいう (gorogoro iu) — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Japanese: 鳴く (naku) — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Kazakh: пырылдау (pyryldau) — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Korean: 가르랑거리다 (gareuranggeorida) — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Latgalian: ņurruot — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Latvian: murrāt — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Lithuanian: murkti — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Macedonian: преде (prede) — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Malay: mendengkur — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Navajo: biyiʼ hodiitsʼaʼ — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Norman: ronner — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Norwegian: male — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Persian: خرخر کردن — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Polish: mruczeć — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Polish: mruknąć — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Portuguese: ronronar — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Romanian: toarce — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Russian: мурлы́кать (murlýkatʹ) — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Russian: промурлы́кать (promurlýkatʹ) — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Serbo-Croatian: прести — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Serbo-Croatian: prȅsti — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Slovak: priasť — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Spanish: ronronear — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Swedish: spinna — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Swedish: kurra — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Turkish: mırlamak — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Turkish: gırlamak — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Ukrainian: муркота́ти (murkotáty) — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Ukrainian: муркоті́ти (murkotíty) — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Ukrainian: воркота́ти (vorkotáty) — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Ukrainian: воркоті́ти (vorkotíty) — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Vietnamese: gừ gừ — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Vietnamese: rừ rừ — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Vietnamese: khò khò — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Walloon: ronfler — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Welsh: canu grwndi — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Yiddish: מורקען (murken) — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Yiddish: מרוקען (mruken) — of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in the throat
• Finnish: kehrätä — to speak in a seductive manner
• French: dire d'une voix suave et posée — to speak in a seductive manner
• Finnish: kehrätä — to make a vibrating throaty sound
• Bulgarian: бръмча (brǎmča) — of an engine: to make a low rumbling sound
• Finnish: kehrätä — of an engine: to make a low rumbling sound
• Hungarian: dorombol — of an engine: to make a low rumbling sound
• Hungarian: duruzsol — of an engine: to make a low rumbling sound
• Polish: mruczeć — of an engine: to make a low rumbling sound
• Polish: mruknąć — of an engine: to make a low rumbling sound