different between moo vs bleat

English

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mu?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mu/
• Rhymes: -u?
• Homophone: mu

Noun

moo (plural moos)

1. (onomatopoeia) The characteristic lowing sound made by cattle.
2. (Britain, slang, mildly derogatory) A foolish woman.

   You silly moo! What did you do that for?

Derived terms

• moolike

Translations

Verb

moo (third-person singular simple present moos, present participle mooing, simple past and past participle mooed)

1. (intransitive) Of a cow or bull, to make its characteristic lowing sound.

Synonyms

• low, boo (rare)

Translations

Interjection

moo

1. The characteristic sound made by a cow or bull.

Translations

Anagrams

• OOM, omo-, oom

Arabela

Noun

moo

1. river

Japanese

Romanization

moo

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish móu, móo, from Proto-Celtic *m?yos, comparative form of *m?ros, from Proto-Indo-European *meh?-. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic mò, Irish mó and Welsh mwy.

Adjective

moo

1. comparative degree of mooar (“big, great, large”)

See also

• smoo

Murui Huitoto

Etymology

From Proto-Huitoto-Ocaina *m?h?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m??]
• Hyphenation: moo

Root

moo

1. father

Derived terms

• mooma

Noun

moo

1. vocative of mooma (“father”)

Noun

moo

1. Synonym of mooma (“father”)

Coordinate terms

• ei

References

• Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)?^[1] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 180
• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.?^[2], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 125

Sotho

Adverb

moo

1. there; distal demonstrative adverb.

Ulch

Noun

moo

1. tree, wood

References

• Sonya Oskolskaya, Natasha Stoynova, Some Changes in the Noun Paradigm of Ulcha Under the Language Shift, 2017.

English

Alternative forms

• blate, blait (Scotland)

Etymology

From Middle English bleten, from Old English bl?tan (“to bleat”), from Proto-West Germanic *bl?tijan, from Proto-Germanic *bl?tijan? (“to bleat”). Cognate with Scots blete, bleit, West Frisian bâlte, blaaien, blêtsje (“to bleat”), Dutch blaten (“to bleat”), Low German bleten (“to bleat”), German blaßen, blässen (“to bleat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bli?t/
• Rhymes: -i?t

Noun

bleat (plural bleats)

1. The characteristic cry of a sheep or a goat.

Synonyms

• (sheep's cry): baa, baaing, bleating

Translations

Verb

bleat (third-person singular simple present bleats, present participle bleating, simple past and past participle bleated)

1. Of a sheep or goat, to make its characteristic cry; of a human, to mimic this sound.
2. (informal, derogatory) Of a person, to complain.

   The last thing we need is to hear them bleating to us about organizational problems.

Synonyms

• (make the characteristic cry of a sheep or goat): baa
• (complain): kvetch (US), moan, whinge (UK), whine

Translations

Anagrams

• ablet, blate, table

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *blautaz, whence also Old High German bl?z (“naked”), Old Norse blautr. More at blouse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blæ???t/

Adjective

bl?at

1. wretched

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: *blete, *bleet
  • Scots: bleat, blait, bleet

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian bl?t, from Proto-Germanic *blautaz.

Adjective

bleat

1. bare, naked
2. poor

Inflection

Further reading

• “bleat (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011