snore

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• Received-Pronunciation: /snɔː/
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• General-American: /snoɹ/
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• /sno(ː)ɹ/ rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
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• /snoə/ non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
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• rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: S N AO1 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English snoren, fnoren (“to snore loudly; snort”), from Middle English snore, *fnore (“snore; snort”, noun), from Old English fnora (“snort; sneezing”), from Proto-Germanic *fnuzô, from Proto-Indo-European *pnew- (“to breathe; snort; sneeze”). Compare also Proto-West Germanic *snarkōn, Middle Low German snorren (“to drone”), Dutch snorren (“to hum, purr”). The change fn → sn in this word is regular, seen also in sneeze, from Middle English fnesen (see sneeze for more).

185 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: gërhimë — act and noise of snoring
• Aleut: qungtux — act and noise of snoring
• Arabic: شَخِير (šaḵīr) — act and noise of snoring
• Armenian: խռմփոց (xṙmpʻocʻ) — act and noise of snoring
• Armenian: խռմփալը (xṙmpʻalə) — act and noise of snoring
• Assamese: ঘোৰঘোৰণি (ghürghüroni) — act and noise of snoring
• Early Assamese: ঘোঙ্ঘড়ি (ghöṅghoṛi) — act and noise of snoring
• Azerbaijani: xorultu — act and noise of snoring
• Belarusian: храп (xrap) — act and noise of snoring
• Central Bikol: hukragong — act and noise of snoring
• Bulgarian: хъркане (hǎrkane) — act and noise of snoring
• Chinese Mandarin: 鼾聲 /鼾声 (hānshēng) — act and noise of snoring
• Czech: chrápání — act and noise of snoring
• Dutch: gesnurk — act and noise of snoring
• Finnish: kuorsaus — act and noise of snoring
• French: ronflement — act and noise of snoring
• Georgian: ხვრინვა (xvrinva) — act and noise of snoring
• German: Schnarchen — act and noise of snoring
• Greek: ροχαλητό (rochalitó) — act and noise of snoring
• Greek: ροχάλισμα (rochálisma) — act and noise of snoring
• Hebrew: נְחִירָה (nekhira) — act and noise of snoring
• Hungarian: horkolás — act and noise of snoring
• Hunsrik: Schnorrikse — act and noise of snoring
• Ingrian: kortsuta — act and noise of snoring
• Japanese: 鼾 (ibiki) — act and noise of snoring
• Japanese: 鼾声 (kansei) — act and noise of snoring
• Korean: 코골기 (kogolgi) — act and noise of snoring
• Persian: خرناس (xornâs) — act and noise of snoring
• Persian: خروپف — act and noise of snoring
• Persian: خرناس — act and noise of snoring
• Persian: صدای خروپف — act and noise of snoring
• Persian: صدای خرناس — act and noise of snoring
• Portuguese: ronco — act and noise of snoring
• Romanian: sforăit — act and noise of snoring
• Romanian: sforăială — act and noise of snoring
• Romanian: sforăitură — act and noise of snoring
• Romanian: sforăire — act and noise of snoring
• Russian: храп (xrap) — act and noise of snoring
• Scottish Gaelic: srann — act and noise of snoring
• Slovak: chrápanie — act and noise of snoring
• Spanish: ronquido — act and noise of snoring
• Spanish: jipío — act and noise of snoring
• Spanish: jipido — act and noise of snoring
• Swahili: mkoromo — act and noise of snoring
• Swedish: snarkning — act and noise of snoring
• Tagalog: hilik — act and noise of snoring
• Tagalog: paghilik — act and noise of snoring
• Thai: การกรน (gaan-gron) — act and noise of snoring
• Turkish: horultu — act and noise of snoring
• Turkish: horlama — act and noise of snoring
• Ukrainian: храп (xrap) — act and noise of snoring
• Vietnamese: tiếng ngáy — act and noise of snoring
• Volapük: snok — act and noise of snoring
• Volapük: snor — act and noise of snoring
• Afrikaans: snork — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Ainu: エトㇿキ (etorki) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Albanian: gërhas — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Aleut: qungtuxsix — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Arabic: شَخَرَ (šaḵara) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Arabic: شخر (šaḵḵar) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Arabic: شخر (šḵar) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Armenian: խռմփալ (xṙmpʻal) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Armenian: խռմփացնել (xṙmpʻacʻnel) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Armenian: խռռացնել (xṙṙacʻnel) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Assamese: ঘোৰঘোৰা (ghürghüra) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Assamese: নাক বজা (nak boza) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Early Assamese: ঘোঙ্ঘড়ি পাৰ্ (ghöṅghoṛi par) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Azerbaijani: xoruldamaq — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Belarusian: храпці́ (xrapcí) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Bengali: নাক ডাকা (nak ḍaka) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Central Bikol: maghukragong — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Bulgarian: хъ́ркам (hǎ́rkam) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Burmese: ဟောက် (hauk) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Catalan: roncar — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Cherokee: ᏓᏆᎳᎩᎠ (daqualagia) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Chickasaw: lhabanka — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Chinese Cantonese: 打鼾 (daa2 hon4) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Chinese: 鼾 (zh-min-nan) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Literary Chinese: 鼾 (hān) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Chinese Mandarin: 打鼾 (dǎhān) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Coptic: ϧⲉⲣϧⲉⲣ (xerxer) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Czech: chrápat — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Danish: snorke — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Dutch: snurken — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Elfdalian: skråyta — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Esperanto: ronki — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Estonian: norskama — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Faroese: snorka — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Faroese: róta — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Finnish: kuorsata — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• French: ronfler — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Galician: roncar — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Galician: roncexar — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Georgian: ხვრინავს (xvrinavs) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• German: schnarchen — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Greek: ροχαλίζω (rochalízo) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Ancient Greek: ῥέγκω (rhénkō) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Greenlandic: qannguivoq — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Haitian Creole: wonfle — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Hebrew: נָחַר (nakhár) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Hindi: खर्राटा लेना (kharrāṭā lenā) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Hungarian: horkol — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Hunsrik: schnorrikse — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Icelandic: hrjóta — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Indonesian: mendengkur — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Indonesian: berdengkur — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Irish: srann — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Italian: russare — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Italian: ronfare — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Japanese: 鼾をかく (ibiki o kaku) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Japanese: 鼾を立てる (ibiki o tateru) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Javanese: ngorok — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Kapampangan: malakak — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Kazakh: қорылдау (qoryldau) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Khmer: ស្រមុក (srɑmok) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Korean: 코를 골다 (ko-reul golda) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Kyrgyz: корулдоо (koruldoo) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Lao: ກົນ (kon) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Lao: ນອນກົນ (nǭn kon) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Lao: ສຽງກົນ (sīang kon) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Latgalian: kruokt — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Latin: stertō — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Latin: rhonchō — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Latvian: krākt — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Lithuanian: knarkti — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Luxembourgish: ronken — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Luxembourgish: schnaarchen — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Macedonian: ‘рка (‘rka) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Macedonian: грчи (grči) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Malay: berdengkur — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Manchu: ᡴᡡᠸᠠᠴᠠᡵᠠᠮᠪᡳ (kūwacarambi) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Māori: korowaru — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Māori: ngongoro — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Māori: pipiha — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Māori: peru — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Mauritian Creole: ronfle — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Middle English: snoren — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Mongolian: хурхирах (xurxirax) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Navajo: ałhą́ą́ʼ — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Norman: ronflier — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Norman: raonfflaïr — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Norwegian: snorke — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Occitan: roncar — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Occitan: ronflar — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Old English: hrūtan — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Persian: خرخر کردن (xorxor kardan) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Persian: خرناس کشیدن (xornâs kešidan) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Persian: خروپفیدن — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Persian: خرناسیدن — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Polish: chrapać — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Portuguese: roncar — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Romanian: sforăi — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Romansh: sgruflar — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Romansh: runtgir — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Russian: храпе́ть (xrapétʹ) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Northern Sami: skuhrrat — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Scottish Gaelic: srann — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Serbo-Croatian: хр́кати — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Serbo-Croatian: hŕkati — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Seychellois Creole: ronfle — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Sicilian: runfari — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Sicilian: runfulijari — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Slovak: chrápať — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Slovene: smrčati — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Upper Sorbian: smorčeć — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Spanish: roncar — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Swedish: snarka — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Tagalog: humilik — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Tajik: хуррок кашидан (xurrok kašidan) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Tajik: хӯрок кашидан (xürok kašidan) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Thai: กรน (gron) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Tibetan: སྔུར་པ་བཏང (sngur pa btang) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Turkish: horlamak — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Turkmen: hor çekmek — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Ukrainian: хропі́ти (xropíty) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Urdu: خراٹا لینا (xarāṭā lenā) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Uzbek: xurrak otmoq — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Uzbek: xirillamoq — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Vietnamese: ngáy — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Volapük: snokön — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Volapük: snorön — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Walloon: ronfler — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Walloon: ronfyî — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Welsh: chwyrnu — breathe during sleep with harsh noises
• Yiddish: כראָפּען (khropen) — breathe during sleep with harsh noises