rumble

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• Southern-England, US: /ˈɹʌmb(ə)l/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈɹɐmb(ə)l/
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• Northern-England: /ˈɹʊmb(ə)l/
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• Scotland, Wales: /ˈɾʌmb(ə)l/
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• CMU ARPABET: R AH1 M B AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English rumblen, romblen, rummelyn, frequentative form of romen (“to roar”), equivalent to rome + -le. Cognate with Dutch rommelen (“to rumble”), Low German rummeln (“to rumble”), German rumpeln (“to be noisy”), Danish rumle (“to rumble”), all of imitative origin. Compare typologically Russian громи́ть (gromítʹ), погро́м (pogróm), разгро́м (razgróm) (akin to гром (grom), греме́ть (gremétʹ), громыха́ть (gromyxátʹ)). Also compare гро́хнуть (gróxnutʹ) (akin to гро́хот (gróxot)).

A variant of Rumbold, Rumbel or Rumpel.

163 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: тътен (tǎten) — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Bulgarian: буботене (bubotene) — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Chinese Mandarin: 轟隆 /轰隆 (hōnglóng) — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Chinese Mandarin: 隆隆聲 /隆隆声 (lónglóngshēng) — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Czech: rachot — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Czech: lomoz — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Czech: burácení — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Czech: dunění — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Danish: rumle — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Dutch: rommeling — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Finnish: ryminä — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Finnish: jyrinä — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Finnish: jyry — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Finnish: jytinä — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Finnish: jylinä — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Finnish: jyminä — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Finnish: jymy — low, heavy, continuous sound
• French: borborygme — low, heavy, continuous sound
• French: gargouillement — low, heavy, continuous sound
• French: grondement — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Galician: balbordo — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Galician: estroido — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Galician: zonido — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Galician: bruiamento — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Galician: estoiro — low, heavy, continuous sound
• German: Poltern — low, heavy, continuous sound
• German: Rumpeln — low, heavy, continuous sound
• German: Grollen — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Hungarian: morgás — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Hungarian: dörmögés — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Hungarian: dörgés — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Irish: tormán — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Italian: sferragliamento — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Italian: rombo — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Italian: rimbombo — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Māori: wheoro — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Māori: pioro — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Māori: wawā — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Marathi: खडखडाट (khaḍakhḍāṭ) — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Marathi: गडगडाट (gaḍagḍāṭ) — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Norwegian: rumling — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Persian: غرنبه (ġoronbe) — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Persian: کنور (konur) — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Portuguese: ronco — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Portuguese: ribombo — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Russian: гро́хот (gróxot) — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Russian: громыха́ние (gromyxánije) — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Russian: грохота́нье (groxotánʹje) — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Russian: урча́ние (určánije) — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Swedish: dån — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Swedish: buller — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Turkish: homurtu — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Turkish: gümbürtü — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Turkish: gürleme — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Walloon: groûlaedje — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Walloon: groûlmint — low, heavy, continuous sound
• Bulgarian: свада (svada) — street fight or brawl
• Czech: pouliční rvačka — street fight or brawl
• Czech: pouliční bitka — street fight or brawl
• Dutch: straatgevecht — street fight or brawl
• Finnish: rähinä — street fight or brawl
• Finnish: tappelu — street fight or brawl
• Galician: lea — street fight or brawl
• Galician: gurra — street fight or brawl
• Galician: muada — street fight or brawl
• Galician: breiga — street fight or brawl
• Galician: baralla — street fight or brawl
• Galician: rifa — street fight or brawl
• Galician: esganifa — street fight or brawl
• Galician: liorta — street fight or brawl
• German: Schlägerei — street fight or brawl
• Hungarian: bunyó — street fight or brawl
• Italian: rissa — street fight or brawl
• Italian: caciara — street fight or brawl
• Italian: battibecco — street fight or brawl
• Polish: bójka — street fight or brawl
• Portuguese: briga — street fight or brawl
• Russian: сты́чка (stýčka) — street fight or brawl
• Russian: дра́ка (dráka) — street fight or brawl
• Russian: потасо́вка (potasóvka) — street fight or brawl
• Spanish: pelea callejera — street fight or brawl
• Spanish: riña — street fight or brawl
• Swedish: väsen — street fight or brawl
• Swedish: oväsen — street fight or brawl
• Swedish: bråk — street fight or brawl
• Swedish: liv — street fight or brawl
• Turkish: dövüş — street fight or brawl
• Albanian: gjëmoj — to make a low pitched noise
• Armenian: թնդալ (tʻndal) — to make a low pitched noise
• Bulgarian: тътна (tǎtna) — to make a low pitched noise
• Bulgarian: буботя (bubotja) — to make a low pitched noise
• Chinese Mandarin: 咕咕叫 (gūgū jiào) — to make a low pitched noise
• Czech: rachotit — to make a low pitched noise
• Czech: lomozit — to make a low pitched noise
• Czech: burácet — to make a low pitched noise
• Czech: dunět — to make a low pitched noise
• Czech: hřmět — to make a low pitched noise
• Dutch: rommelen — to make a low pitched noise
• Finnish: jyristä — to make a low pitched noise
• Finnish: jymistä — to make a low pitched noise
• Finnish: rymistä — to make a low pitched noise
• Finnish: kurista — to make a low pitched noise
• French: gronder — to make a low pitched noise
• French: gargouiller — to make a low pitched noise
• German: rumpeln — to make a low pitched noise
• German: knurren — to make a low pitched noise
• Hungarian: dörög — to make a low pitched noise
• Hungarian: dörmög korog — to make a low pitched noise
• Italian: brontolare — to make a low pitched noise
• Italian: rimbombare — to make a low pitched noise
• Lithuanian: gurgti — to make a low pitched noise
• Macedonian: та́тни (tátni) — to make a low pitched noise
• Māori: whakarūrū — to make a low pitched noise
• Māori: wheoro — to make a low pitched noise
• Māori: kokō — to make a low pitched noise
• Māori: whēorooro — to make a low pitched noise
• Māori: pioro — to make a low pitched noise
• Māori: haruru — to make a low pitched noise
• Marathi: गडगडणे (gaḍgaḍṇe) — to make a low pitched noise
• Marathi: गडाडणे (gaḍāḍṇe) — to make a low pitched noise
• Norwegian: rumle — to make a low pitched noise
• Norwegian Nynorsk: knurra — to make a low pitched noise
• Norwegian Nynorsk: rumla — to make a low pitched noise
• Occitan: rebombir — to make a low pitched noise
• Occitan: roncar — to make a low pitched noise
• Piedmontese: strunì — to make a low pitched noise
• Polish: dudnić — to make a low pitched noise
• Polish: tętnić — to make a low pitched noise
• Portuguese: roncar — to make a low pitched noise
• Quechua: kunununuy — to make a low pitched noise
• Russian: грохота́ть (groxotátʹ) — to make a low pitched noise
• Russian: громыха́ть (gromyxátʹ) — to make a low pitched noise
• Spanish: retumbar — to make a low pitched noise
• Spanish: rugir — to make a low pitched noise
• Spanish: rimbombar — to make a low pitched noise
• Swedish: kurra — to make a low pitched noise
• Swedish: mullra — to make a low pitched noise
• Walloon: groûler — to make a low pitched noise
• ǃXóõ: kxʻāa — to make a low pitched noise
• Finnish: ratsata — to discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour
• German: spitzkriegen — to discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour
• German: durchschauen — to discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour
• Italian: smascherare — to discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour
• Bulgarian: трополя (tropolja) — to move while making a rumbling noise
• Czech: rvát se — to move while making a rumbling noise
• Czech: servat se — to move while making a rumbling noise
• Finnish: jyristellä — to move while making a rumbling noise
• Finnish: rymistellä — to move while making a rumbling noise
• Finnish: rymistää — to move while making a rumbling noise
• Finnish: rymytä — to move while making a rumbling noise
• Italian: sferragliare — to move while making a rumbling noise
• Swedish: skramla — to move while making a rumbling noise
• Swedish: skaka — to move while making a rumbling noise
• Swedish: rassla — to move while making a rumbling noise
• Finnish: rähinöidä — to fight, brawl
• Finnish: ottaa yhteen — to fight, brawl
• Hungarian: bunyózik — to fight, brawl
• Japanese: 怒る (ikaru) — to fight, brawl
• Portuguese: brigar — to fight, brawl
• Swedish: rumla — to fight, brawl
• Swedish: kivas — to fight, brawl
• Swedish: bråka — to fight, brawl
• Swedish: leva — to fight, brawl